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From: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>,
	Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
	Xiao Wang <xiao.w.wang@intel.com>, Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/5] asm-generic: Improve csum_fold
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:04:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZTxQHVplimd4tquE@ghost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231027231036.GM800259@ZenIV>

On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 12:10:36AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 03:43:51PM -0700, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> >  /*
> >   * computes the checksum of a memory block at buff, length len,
> >   * and adds in "sum" (32-bit)
> > @@ -31,9 +33,7 @@ extern __sum16 ip_fast_csum(const void *iph, unsigned int ihl);
> >  static inline __sum16 csum_fold(__wsum csum)
> >  {
> >  	u32 sum = (__force u32)csum;
> > -	sum = (sum & 0xffff) + (sum >> 16);
> > -	sum = (sum & 0xffff) + (sum >> 16);
> > -	return (__force __sum16)~sum;
> > +	return (__force __sum16)((~sum - ror32(sum, 16)) >> 16);
> >  }
> 
> Will (~(sum + ror32(sum, 16))>>16 produce worse code than that?
> Because at least with recent gcc this will generate the exact thing
> you get from arm inline asm...

Yes that will produce worse code because an out-of-order processor will be able to
leverage that ~sum and ror32(sum, 16) can be computed independently of
each other. There are more strict data dependencies in (~(sum +
ror32(sum, 16))>>16.

- Charlie


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  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-28  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-27 22:43 [PATCH v8 0/5] riscv: Add fine-tuned checksum functions Charlie Jenkins
2023-10-27 22:43 ` [PATCH v8 1/5] asm-generic: Improve csum_fold Charlie Jenkins
2023-10-27 23:10   ` Al Viro
2023-10-28  0:04     ` Charlie Jenkins [this message]
2023-10-27 22:43 ` [PATCH v8 2/5] riscv: Add static key for misaligned accesses Charlie Jenkins
2023-10-27 22:43 ` [PATCH v8 3/5] riscv: Checksum header Charlie Jenkins
2023-10-31  9:11   ` Wang, Xiao W
2023-10-31 22:53     ` Charlie Jenkins
2023-10-27 22:43 ` [PATCH v8 4/5] riscv: Add checksum library Charlie Jenkins
2023-10-31  9:51   ` Wang, Xiao W
2023-10-31 22:59     ` Charlie Jenkins
2023-10-27 22:43 ` [PATCH v8 5/5] riscv: Test checksum functions Charlie Jenkins
2023-10-31  7:57 ` [PATCH v8 0/5] riscv: Add fine-tuned " Conor Dooley

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