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x86: Prefer TZCNT over BFS
authorJan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:24:43 +0000 (12:24 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:44:01 +0000 (17:44 +0200)
commit5870661c091e827973674cc3469b50c959008c2b
tree4043f28631c98fbc03babd7b8b32af788f6f362e
parent1edfbb4153bd29bcf8d2236676238d5237972be1
x86: Prefer TZCNT over BFS

Following a relatively recent compiler change, make use of the
fact that for non-zero input BSF and TZCNT produce the same
result, and that CPUs not knowing of TZCNT will treat the
instruction as BSF (i.e. ignore what looks like a REP prefix to
them). The assumption here is that TZCNT would never have worse
performance than BSF.

For the moment, only do this when the respective generic-CPU
option is selected (as there are no specific-CPU options
covering the CPUs supporting TZCNT), and don't do that when size
optimization was requested.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/504DEA1B020000780009A277@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h