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net: introduce reciprocal_scale helper and convert users

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As David Laight suggests, we shouldn't necessarily call this
reciprocal_divide() when users didn't requested a reciprocal_value();
lets keep the basic idea and call it reciprocal_scale(). More
background information on this topic can be found in [1].

Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa.

  [1] http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/bcd/divide.html

Suggested-by: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@darkjames.pl>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Daniel Borkmann 2014-01-22 02:29:40 +01:00 • committed by David S. Miller
parent f337db64af
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@ -193,6 +193,25 @@ extern int _cond_resched(void);
(__x < 0) ? -__x : __x; \
})
/**
* reciprocal_scale - "scale" a value into range [0, ep_ro)
* @val: value
* @ep_ro: right open interval endpoint
*
* Perform a "reciprocal multiplication" in order to "scale" a value into
* range [0, ep_ro), where the upper interval endpoint is right-open.
* This is useful, e.g. for accessing a index of an array containing
* ep_ro elements, for example. Think of it as sort of modulus, only that
* the result isn't that of modulo. ;) Note that if initial input is a
* small value, then result will return 0.
*
* Return: a result based on val in interval [0, ep_ro).
*/
static inline u32 reciprocal_scale(u32 val, u32 ep_ro)
{
return (u32)(((u64) val * ep_ro) >> 32);
}
#if defined(CONFIG_MMU) && \
(defined(CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) || defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP))
void might_fault(void);