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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <602e03fd-ce4b-feef-5053-e95834ab35d7@gmail.com> On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 09:25:42PM +0100, Uros Bizjak wrote: > > Please note that GCC (and clang) provide __builtin_parity{,l,ll}() family of > builtin functions. Recently, I have tried to use this builtin in a couple of > places [1], [2], but I had to retract the patches, because __builtin > functions aren't strictly required to be inlined and can generate a library > call [3]. > > As explained in [2], the compilers are able to emit optimized > target-dependent code (also automatically using popcnt insn when avaialble), > so ideally the generic parity64() and parity32() would be implemented using > __builtin_parity(), where the generic library would provide a fallback > __paritydi2() and __paritysi2() functions, otherwise provided by the > compiler support library. > > For x86, we would like to exercise the hardware parity calculation or > optimized code sequences involving HW parity calculation, as shown in [1] > and [2]. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250129205746.10963-1-ubizjak@gmail.com/ > > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250129154920.6773-2-ubizjak@gmail.com/ > > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAKbZUD0N7bkuw_Le3Pr9o1V2BjjcY_YiLm8a8DPceubTdZ00GQ@mail.gmail.com/ Hi Uros, Thanks for your information. We originally planned to implement hardware optimizations after this patch series. However, for V2, We will incorporate __builtin_parity(), while keeping our current implementation as the fallback function. 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charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-mtd" Errors-To: linux-mtd-bounces+linux-mtd=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 09:25:42PM +0100, Uros Bizjak wrote: > > Please note that GCC (and clang) provide __builtin_parity{,l,ll}() family of > builtin functions. Recently, I have tried to use this builtin in a couple of > places [1], [2], but I had to retract the patches, because __builtin > functions aren't strictly required to be inlined and can generate a library > call [3]. > > As explained in [2], the compilers are able to emit optimized > target-dependent code (also automatically using popcnt insn when avaialble), > so ideally the generic parity64() and parity32() would be implemented using > __builtin_parity(), where the generic library would provide a fallback > __paritydi2() and __paritysi2() functions, otherwise provided by the > compiler support library. > > For x86, we would like to exercise the hardware parity calculation or > optimized code sequences involving HW parity calculation, as shown in [1] > and [2]. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250129205746.10963-1-ubizjak@gmail.com/ > > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250129154920.6773-2-ubizjak@gmail.com/ > > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAKbZUD0N7bkuw_Le3Pr9o1V2BjjcY_YiLm8a8DPceubTdZ00GQ@mail.gmail.com/ Hi Uros, Thanks for your information. We originally planned to implement hardware optimizations after this patch series. However, for V2, We will incorporate __builtin_parity(), while keeping our current implementation as the fallback function. Best regards, Yu-Chun Lin ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/