Commit f4afb4f4 authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o

ext4: optimize test_root()

The test_root() function could potentially loop forever due to
overflow issues.  So rewrite test_root() to avoid this issue; as a
bonus, it is 38% faster when benchmarked via a test loop:

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	int  i;

	for (i = 0; i < 1 << 24; i++) {
		if (test_root(i, 7))
			printf("%d\n", i);
	}
}
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 2f2e09eb
......@@ -682,11 +682,15 @@ ext4_fsblk_t ext4_count_free_clusters(struct super_block *sb)
static inline int test_root(ext4_group_t a, int b)
{
int num = b;
while (a > num)
num *= b;
return num == a;
while (1) {
if (a < b)
return 0;
if (a == b)
return 1;
if ((a % b) != 0)
return 0;
a = a / b;
}
}
static int ext4_group_sparse(ext4_group_t group)
......
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