Re: [RFC][PATCH] Faster generic_fls

From: Daniel Phillips (dphillips@sistina.com)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 07:21:00 EST

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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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