[dm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Revert "Revert "math64: New div64_u64_rem helper""

[Mike Snitzer]

On Tue, Aug 20 2013 at  4:09am -0400,
Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org> wrote:

> 
> * Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 03:56:03PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > > This reverts commit f3002134158092178be81339ec5a22ff80e6c308.
> > > 
> > > div64_u64_rem was removed because there were no other users.
> > > 
> > > But Device Mapper's I/O statistics support has a need for
> > > div64_u64_rem; reintroduce this helper.
> > 
> > This slows down div64_u64 operation, especially on 32-bit 
> > systems.
> > 
> > Since dm statistic code is possibly not performance 
> > critical perhaps you could use something like below 
> > instead to calculate remainder:
> > 
> > res = div64_u64(a, b);
> > rem = a - b*res;
> 
> Or introduce a separately named helper without touching the 
> existing methods.

Thanks for the feedback.

I've pushed "math64: New separate div64_u64_rem helper" to the DM tree's
'for-next' branch:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=20e8125736d0e96b64c9b6127241d2a13529180a

Are you OK with me carrying this patch in the DM tree for 3.12
inclusion?

Mike