Because some architectures (alpha, armv6, etc.) don't provide hardware division, the mod operation is slow! Binary GCD algorithm uses simple arithmetic operations, it replaces division with arithmetic shifts, comparisons, and subtraction.
Signed-off-by: Zhaoxiu Zeng <zhaoxiu.z...@gmail.com> --- lib/Kconfig | 15 +++++++++++++++ lib/gcd.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig index a5ce0c7..80e8e54 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig +++ b/lib/Kconfig @@ -177,6 +177,21 @@ config CRC8 when they need to do cyclic redundancy check according CRC8 algorithm. Module will be called crc8. +# +# GCD +# +choice + prompt "GCD implementation" + default GCD_ALGO_EUCLIDEAN + +config GCD_ALGO_EUCLIDEAN + bool "Euclidean algorithm" + +config GCD_ALGO_BINARY + bool "Binary GCD algorithm (Stein's algorithm)" + +endchoice + config AUDIT_GENERIC bool depends on AUDIT && !AUDIT_ARCH diff --git a/lib/gcd.c b/lib/gcd.c index 3657f12..911ec7f 100644 --- a/lib/gcd.c +++ b/lib/gcd.c @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b) { unsigned long r; - +#ifdef CONFIG_GCD_ALGO_EUCLIDEAN if (a < b) swap(a, b); @@ -16,6 +16,35 @@ unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b) a = b; b = r; } +#else + r = a | b; + + if (!a || !b) + return r; + + r = r ^ (r - 1); + if (!(a & r)) + goto even_odd; /* a/c even, b/c odd */ + if (!(b & r)) + goto odd_even; /* a/c odd, b/c even */ + + /* a/c and b/c both odd */ + while (a != b) { + if (a > b) { + a -= b; +even_odd: + do + a >>= 1; + while (!(a & r)); + } else { + b -= a; +odd_even: + do + b >>= 1; + while (!(b & r)); + } + } +#endif return b; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gcd); -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/