From: Daniel Phillips <dphillips@sistina.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Faster generic_fls
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 14:21:00 +0200
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On Friday 02 May 2003 02:54, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Would it be churlish to point out that the only significant user of fls()
> is sctp_v6_addr_match_len()?

Maybe.  It's also useful for breaking up an arbitrary IO region optimally into 
binary-sized blocks, which is part of the current 2.4 device-mapper patch 
set, not yet submitted.

Regards,

Daniel
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