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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: alexander.riesen@synopsys.COM, scrosby@cs.rice.edu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Algoritmic Complexity Attacks and 2.4.20 the dcache code
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 23:30:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030531063040.GI8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030530.020040.52897577.davem@redhat.com>

From: Alex Riesen <alexander.riesen@synopsys.COM>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 10:59:01 +0200
>        static
>        int hash_3(int hi, int c)
>        {
>    	return (hi + (c << 4) + (c >> 4)) * 11;
>        }
>    gcc-3.2.1 -O2 -march=pentium
>  ...   
>    It is not guaranteed to be this way on all architectures, of course.
>    But still - no multiplications.

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 02:00:40AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Indeed, I'd missed this.  GCC will emit the constant multiply
> expansion unless the multiply cost is set VERY low.

If the strength reduction situation changes to being properly handled
by gcc for most/all 64-bit arches, include/linux/hash.h can lose a #ifdef.


-- wli

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-31  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-29 20:42 Algoritmic Complexity Attacks and 2.4.20 the dcache code Scott A Crosby
2003-05-30  3:57 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-30  4:29   ` Ingo Molnar
2003-05-30 18:16     ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-30 18:53       ` Scott A Crosby
2003-05-30  5:04   ` Scott A Crosby
2003-05-30  6:24     ` David S. Miller
2003-05-30  6:46       ` Scott A Crosby
2003-05-30  6:56         ` David S. Miller
2003-05-30  8:59       ` Alex Riesen
2003-05-30  9:00         ` David S. Miller
2003-05-30 15:05           ` Scott A Crosby
2003-05-31  6:18             ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  8:02               ` Willy TARREAU
2003-05-31  8:12                 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  8:56                   ` Willy Tarreau
2003-05-31  8:58                     ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  8:58                   ` David Schwartz
2003-05-31  9:01                     ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  6:30           ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-05-31  6:33             ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  6:41               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-31  6:45                 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31 18:40                   ` Aaron Lehmann
2003-05-30  4:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-05-30  4:42   ` Scott A Crosby
2003-05-30  5:01     ` David S. Miller
2003-05-30 13:48 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-06-01  1:15 ` Daniel Phillips

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