Re: [PATCH] mlx5: avoid 64-bit division

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   On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 02:28:35PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
    > > On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 01:19:02PM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
    > > > Commit 25c13324d03d ("IB/mlx5: Add steering SW ICM device memory type")
    > > > breaks i386 build by introducing three 64-bit divisions. As the divisor
    > > > is MLX5_SW_ICM_BLOCK_SIZE() which is always a power of 2, we can replace
    > > > the division with bit operations.
    > >
    > > Interesting, we tried to solve it differently.
    > > I added it to our regression to be on the same side.
    
    > This patch works for us.
    
   Yes, this value is guaranteed to be a power of 2.  We safely use round_up() instead as suggested in the patch.





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