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George Spelvin 3a3947271c bcache: Clean up bch_get_congested()
There are a few nits in this function.  They could in theory all
be separate patches, but that's probably taking small commits
too far.

1) I added a brief comment saying what it does.

2) I like to declare pointer parameters "const" where possible
   for documentation reasons.

3) It uses bitmap_weight(&rand, BITS_PER_LONG) to compute the Hamming
weight of a 32-bit random number (giving a random integer with
mean 16 and variance 8).  Passing by reference in a 64-bit variable
is silly; just use hweight32().

4) Its helper function fract_exp_two is unnecessarily tangled.
Gcc can optimize the multiply by (1 << x) to a shift, but it can
be written in a much more straightforward way at the cost of one
more bit of internal precision.  Some analysis reveals that this
bit is always available.

This shrinks the object code for fract_exp_two(x, 6) from 23 bytes:

0000000000000000 <foo1>:
   0:   89 f9                   mov    %edi,%ecx
   2:   c1 e9 06                shr    $0x6,%ecx
   5:   b8 01 00 00 00          mov    $0x1,%eax
   a:   d3 e0                   shl    %cl,%eax
   c:   83 e7 3f                and    $0x3f,%edi
   f:   d3 e7                   shl    %cl,%edi
  11:   c1 ef 06                shr    $0x6,%edi
  14:   01 f8                   add    %edi,%eax
  16:   c3                      retq

To 19:

0000000000000017 <foo2>:
  17:   89 f8                   mov    %edi,%eax
  19:   83 e0 3f                and    $0x3f,%eax
  1c:   83 c0 40                add    $0x40,%eax
  1f:   89 f9                   mov    %edi,%ecx
  21:   c1 e9 06                shr    $0x6,%ecx
  24:   d3 e0                   shl    %cl,%eax
  26:   c1 e8 06                shr    $0x6,%eax
  29:   c3                      retq

(Verified with 0 <= frac_bits <= 8, 0 <= x < 16<<frac_bits;
both versions produce the same output.)

5) And finally, the call to bch_get_congested() in check_should_bypass()
is separated from the use of the value by multiple tests which
could moot the need to compute it.  Move the computation down to
where it's needed.  This also saves a local register to hold the
computed value.

Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <lkml@sdf.org>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-04-24 10:56:27 -06:00
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Linux kernel
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