On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 10:42:52AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 19:01 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > If this is to be ported just for an optimization > (which I think is dubious as it's not a bug fix), Yes, it was requested to be backported because of that. > why not port the __fls optimization too? > > __fls has a bigger effect on performance. What commit are you referring to? thanks, greg k-h