2024-05-07 14:28:13

by Andy Shevchenko

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] PCI: Make minimum bridge window alignment reference more obvious

On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 01:25:22PM +0300, Ilpo J?rvinen wrote:
> Calculations related to bridge window size contain literal 20 that is
> the minimum alignment for a bridge window. Make the code more obvious
> by converting the literal 20 to __ffs(SZ_1MB).

..

> - align1 <<= (order + 20);
> + align1 <<= (order + __ffs(SZ_1M));

No need for outer parentheses.

..

> + order = __ffs(align) - __ffs(SZ_1M);

Yeah, would be nice to have something like

#define bit_distance(a, b) (ffs(a) - fls(b))

in bitops.h as we have a few users and I have heard about one more coming,
but this is topic to another discussion. (Yuri, just FYI.)

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko