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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] kfifo: round up the fifo size power of 2
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 07:30:33AM +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 31.10.2012, 13:59 +0800 schrieb Yuanhan Liu:
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 01:59:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:56:57 +0800
> > > Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Say, if we want to allocate a filo with size of 6 bytes, it would be safer
> > > > to allocate 8 bytes instead of 4 bytes.
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > > if (!is_power_of_2(size))
> > > > - size = rounddown_pow_of_two(size);
> > > > + size = roundup_pow_of_two(size);
> > > >
> > > > fifo->in = 0;
> > > > fifo->out = 0;
> > >
> > > hm, well, if the user asked for a 100-element fifo then it is a bit
> > > strange and unexpected to give them a 128-element one.
> >
> >
> > Yes, and I guess the same to give them a 64-element one.
> >
> > >
> > > If there's absolutely no prospect that the kfifo code will ever support
> > > 100-byte fifos then I guess we should rework the API so that the caller
> > > has to pass in log2 of the size, not the size itself. That way there
> > > will be no surprises and no mistakes.
> > >
> > > That being said, the power-of-2 limitation isn't at all intrinsic to a
> > > fifo, so we shouldn't do this. Ideally, we'd change the kfifo
> > > implementation so it does what the caller asked it to do!
> >
> > I'm fine with removing the power-of-2 limitation. Stefani, what's your
> > comment on that?
> >
>

> You can't remove the power-of-2-limitation, since this would result in a
> performance decrease (bit wise and vs. modulo operation).

Right.

>
> Andrew is right, this is an API miss design. So it would be good to
> rework the kfifo_init () and kfifo_alloc() to pass in log2 of the size,
> not the size itself.

Yes, this would make this issue gone completely. Would you mind to let
me do that?

--yliu


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