The patch titled Subject: cpumask: don't perform while loop in cpumask_next_and() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is cpumask-dont-perform-while-loop-in-cpumask_next_and.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/cpumask-dont-perform-while-loop-in-cpumask_next_and.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/cpumask-dont-perform-while-loop-in-cpumask_next_and.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: cpumask: don't perform while loop in cpumask_next_and() cpumask_next_and() is looking for cpumask_next() in src1 in a loop and tests if found cpu is also present in src2. remove that loop, perform cpumask_and() of src1 and src2 first and use that new mask to find cpumask_next(). Apart from removing while loop, ./bloat-o-meter on x86_64 shows add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-8 (-8) function old new delta cpumask_next_and 62 54 -8 Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Amir Vadai <amirv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/cpumask.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN lib/cpumask.c~cpumask-dont-perform-while-loop-in-cpumask_next_and lib/cpumask.c --- a/lib/cpumask.c~cpumask-dont-perform-while-loop-in-cpumask_next_and +++ a/lib/cpumask.c @@ -37,10 +37,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__next_cpu_nr); int cpumask_next_and(int n, const struct cpumask *src1p, const struct cpumask *src2p) { - while ((n = cpumask_next(n, src1p)) < nr_cpu_ids) - if (cpumask_test_cpu(n, src2p)) - break; - return n; + struct cpumask tmp; + + if (cpumask_and(&tmp, src1p, src2p)) + return cpumask_next(n, &tmp); + return nr_cpu_ids; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpumask_next_and); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx are cpumask-dont-perform-while-loop-in-cpumask_next_and.patch lib-lz4-pull-out-constant-tables.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html