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Date:      Wed, 3 Dec 2014 16:54:51 -0800
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r275468 - head/sys/dev/usb/controller
Message-ID:  <20141204005451.GM99957@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <201412032155.sB3LtjJN043364@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201412032155.sB3LtjJN043364@svn.freebsd.org>

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Hans Petter Selasky wrote this message on Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 21:55 +0000:
> Author: hselasky
> Date: Wed Dec  3 21:55:44 2014
> New Revision: 275468
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/275468
> 
> Log:
>   Optimise the bit searching loops, by quickly skipping the 16 first set
>   bits if all the 16 first bits are set. This way the worst case
>   searching time is reduced from 32 to 16 cycles.

You could use ffs instead:
	x = ffs(~map);
	if (x) {
		x--;
		/* normal code */
	}

This has the benefit of using a single instruction on platforms that
support it (bsfl on i386), though apparently, we haven't optimized this
for all platforms...  arm has a version for int, but their ffsl does
the same linear search instead of just calling ffs, or at least
detecting if sizeof(long) == sizeof(int) and calling ffs...

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