From 89770b0a69ee0e0e5e99c722192d535115f73778 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 02:29:40 +0100 Subject: net: introduce reciprocal_scale helper and convert users 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 Cc: Jakub Zawadzki Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/kernel.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/kernel.h') diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index ecb87544cc5..03d8a6b0e2e 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -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); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2