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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: vDSO: Build vDSO tests with O2 optimisation
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 20:11:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZtSuO2Bzbo5wL9se@zx2c4.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46efa1f62e1604c98d10a1b6856a2b2aec0cfe9c.1725211324.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 07:24:03PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Without -O2, the generated code for testing chacha function is awful.
> GCC even implements rol32() as a function instead of just using the
> rotlwi instruction, that function is 20 instructions long.
> 
> 	~# time ./vdso_test_chacha
> 	TAP version 13
> 	1..1
> 	ok 1 chacha: PASS
> 	real    0m 37.16s
> 	user    0m 36.89s
> 	sys     0m 0.26s
> 
> Several other selftests directory add -O2, and the kernel is also
> always built with optimisation active. Do the same for vDSO selftests.
> 
> With this patch the time is reduced by approx 15%.
> 
> 	~# time ./vdso_test_chacha
> 	TAP version 13
> 	1..1
> 	ok 1 chacha: PASS
> 	real    0m 32.09s
> 	user    0m 31.86s
> 	sys     0m 0.22s
> 

Seems reasonable. I'll queue it up.

Thanks.

Jason

      reply	other threads:[~2024-09-01 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-01 17:24 [PATCH] selftests: vDSO: Build vDSO tests with O2 optimisation Christophe Leroy
2024-09-01 18:11 ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]

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