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authorSven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>2010-09-05 01:58:22 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-09-05 00:29:43 -0700
commit8bb22a38d6083d751075829e84421b139dabb460 (patch)
tree57eb1115dafe8cec963efa662e9c9c72033f1c30 /drivers
parent556c83ece8e8a897d7cad23315407ecd1a195fce (diff)
Staging: batman-adv: Calculate hamming weight using optimized kernel functions
The Kernighan algorithm is not able to calculate the number of set bits in parallel and the compiler cannot replace it with optimized instructions. The kernel provides specialised functions for each cpu which can either use a software implementation or hardware instruction depending on the target cpu. Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO1
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/batman-adv/bitarray.c15
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/batman-adv/bitarray.h3
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO
index 9c5aea20be15..d8bf845b9bba 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
- * Use hweight* for hamming weight calculation
* Save/cache packets direktly as skb instead of using a normal memory region
and copying it in a skb using send_raw_packet and similar functions
* Request a new review
diff --git a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/bitarray.c b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/bitarray.c
index dd4193c99d4e..9dbaf1e8e6a5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/bitarray.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/bitarray.c
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
#include "main.h"
#include "bitarray.h"
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
+
/* returns true if the corresponding bit in the given seq_bits indicates true
* and curr_seqno is within range of last_seqno */
uint8_t get_bit_status(TYPE_OF_WORD *seq_bits, uint32_t last_seqno,
@@ -187,21 +189,14 @@ char bit_get_packet(TYPE_OF_WORD *seq_bits, int32_t seq_num_diff,
}
/* count the hamming weight, how many good packets did we receive? just count
- * the 1's. The inner loop uses the Kernighan algorithm, see
- * http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#CountBitsSetKernighan
+ * the 1's.
*/
int bit_packet_count(TYPE_OF_WORD *seq_bits)
{
int i, hamming = 0;
- TYPE_OF_WORD word;
- for (i = 0; i < NUM_WORDS; i++) {
- word = seq_bits[i];
+ for (i = 0; i < NUM_WORDS; i++)
+ hamming += hweight_long(seq_bits[i]);
- while (word) {
- word &= word-1;
- hamming++;
- }
- }
return hamming;
}
diff --git a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/bitarray.h b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/bitarray.h
index 01897d6962d0..28479ea7f7f7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/bitarray.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/bitarray.h
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
#ifndef _NET_BATMAN_ADV_BITARRAY_H_
#define _NET_BATMAN_ADV_BITARRAY_H_
-/* you should choose something big, if you don't want to waste cpu */
+/* you should choose something big, if you don't want to waste cpu
+ * and keep the type in sync with bit_packet_count */
#define TYPE_OF_WORD unsigned long
#define WORD_BIT_SIZE (sizeof(TYPE_OF_WORD) * 8)