From: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com, daniel@iogearbox.net,
Jiong Wang <jiong.wang@netronome.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@netronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 08/19] bpf: insert explicit zero extension insn when hardware doesn't do it implicitly
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:29:35 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1555321893.44its0xa9r.naveen@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1555106392-20117-9-git-send-email-jiong.wang@netronome.com>
Hi Jiong,
Jiong Wang wrote:
> After previous patches, verifier has marked those instructions that really
> need zero extension on dst_reg.
Thanks for implementing this -- this is very helpful on architectures
without sub-register instructions, especially in comparison with legacy
BPF, since the move to eBPF resulted in lot more instructions being
generated.
I have a small nit below on the overall approach...
>
> It is then for all back-ends to decide how to use such information to
> eliminate unnecessary zero extension code-gen during JIT compilation.
>
> One approach is:
> 1. Verifier insert explicit zero extension for those instructions that
> need zero extension.
> 2. All JIT back-ends do NOT generate zero extension for sub-register
> write any more.
Is it possible to instead give a hint to the JIT back-ends on the
instructions needing zero-extension? That would help in case of
architectures that have single/more-optimal instruction for zero
extension, compared to having to emit 2 instructions with the current
approach.
- Naveen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-15 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-12 21:59 [PATCH v3 bpf-next 00/19] bpf: eliminate zero extensions for sub-register writes Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 01/19] bpf: refactor propagate_liveness to eliminate duplicated for loop Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 02/19] bpf: refactor propagate_liveness to eliminate code redundance Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 03/19] bpf: factor out reg and stack slot propagation into "propagate_liveness_reg" Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 04/19] bpf: refactor "check_reg_arg" to eliminate code redundancy Jiong Wang
2019-04-13 0:12 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-04-13 7:00 ` Jiong Wang
2019-04-15 5:41 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 05/19] bpf: split read liveness into REG_LIVE_READ64 and REG_LIVE_READ32 Jiong Wang
2019-04-13 1:07 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-04-13 6:39 ` Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 06/19] bpf: mark lo32 writes that should be zero extended into hi32 Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 07/19] bpf: reduce false alarm by refining helper call arg types Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 08/19] bpf: insert explicit zero extension insn when hardware doesn't do it implicitly Jiong Wang
2019-04-15 9:59 ` Naveen N. Rao [this message]
2019-04-15 10:11 ` Naveen N. Rao
2019-04-15 11:24 ` Jiong Wang
2019-04-15 18:21 ` Naveen N. Rao
2019-04-15 19:28 ` Jiong Wang
2019-04-16 6:41 ` Naveen N. Rao
2019-04-16 7:47 ` [oss-drivers] " Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 09/19] bpf: introduce new bpf prog load flags "BPF_F_TEST_RND_HI32" Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 10/19] bpf: randomize high 32-bit when BPF_F_TEST_RND_HI32 is set Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 11/19] libbpf: add "prog_flags" to bpf_program/bpf_prog_load_attr/bpf_load_program_attr Jiong Wang
2019-04-13 1:08 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 12/19] selftests: enable hi32 randomization for all tests Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 13/19] arm: bpf: eliminate zero extension code-gen Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 14/19] powerpc: " Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 15/19] s390: " Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 16/19] sparc: " Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 17/19] x32: " Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 18/19] riscv: " Jiong Wang
2019-04-12 21:59 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 19/19] nfp: " Jiong Wang
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