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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] powerpc: add support for csum_add()
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 16:39:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150522213956.GC7305@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1432323162.27761.274.camel@freescale.com>

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 02:32:42PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > I'd also have thought that the 64bit C version above would be generally 'good'.
> 
> It doesn't generate the addc/addze sequence.  At least with GCC 4.8.2,
> it does something like:
> 
> 	mr	tmp0, csum
> 	li	tmp1, 0
> 	li	tmp2, 0
> 	addc	tmp3, addend, tmp0
> 	adde	csum, tmp2, tmp1
> 	add	csum, csum, tmp3

Right.  Don't expect older compilers to do sane things here.

All this begs a question...  If it is worth spending so much time
micro-optimising this, why not pick the low-hanging fruit first?
Having a 32-bit accumulator for ones' complement sums, on a 64-bit
system, is not such a great idea.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-22 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-19 15:18 [PATCH v3 0/2] Optimise some IP checksum functions Christophe Leroy
2015-05-19 15:18 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] powerpc: put csum_tcpudp_magic inline Christophe Leroy
2015-05-19 15:18 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] powerpc: add support for csum_add() Christophe Leroy
2015-05-22 15:57   ` David Laight
2015-05-22 19:32     ` Scott Wood
2015-05-22 21:39       ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2015-05-22 21:54         ` Scott Wood
2015-05-26 13:57       ` David Laight
2015-05-26 19:42         ` Scott Wood
2015-05-27  8:41           ` David Laight

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