Re: do_div vs sector_t

Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Sat, 12 Jul 2003 08:42:18 +1000


On Friday July 11, willy@debian.org wrote:
>
> # define do_div(n,base) ({ \
> uint32_t __base = (base); \
> uint32_t __rem; \
> if (likely(((n) >> 32) == 0)) { \
>
> so if we call do_div() on a u32, the compiler emits nasal daemons.
> and we do this -- in the antcipatory scheduler:
>
> if (aic->seek_samples) {
> aic->seek_mean = aic->seek_total + 128;
> do_div(aic->seek_mean, aic->seek_samples);
> }
>
> seek_mean is a sector_t so sometimes it's 64-bit on a 32-bit platform.
> so we can't avoid calling do_div().
>
> This almost works (the warning is harmless since gcc optimises away the call)
>
> # define do_div(n,base) ({ \
> uint32_t __base = (base); \
> uint32_t __rem; \
> if ((sizeof(n) < 8) || (likely(((n) >> 32) == 0))) { \
> __rem = (uint32_t)(n) % __base; \
> (n) = (uint32_t)(n) / __base; \
> } else \
> __rem = __div64_32(&(n), __base); \
> __rem; \
> })
>
> Better ideas?

sector_div, defined in blkdev.h, is probably what you want.

NeilBrown
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