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From: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
To: paul.walmsley@sifive.com, palmer@dabbelt.com,
	aou@eecs.berkeley.edu, alex@ghiti.fr, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jserv@ccns.ncku.edu.tw, Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>,
	Yu-Chun Lin <eleanor15x@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] lib/math/gcd: Use static key to select implementation at runtime
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 23:55:17 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250524155519.1142570-2-visitorckw@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250524155519.1142570-1-visitorckw@gmail.com>

On platforms like RISC-V, the compiler may generate hardware FFS
instructions even if the underlying CPU does not actually support them.
Currently, the GCD implementation is chosen at compile time based on
CONFIG_CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS, which can result in suboptimal behavior on
such systems.

Introduce a static key, efficient_ffs_key, to enable runtime selection
between the binary GCD (using ffs) and the odd-even GCD implementation.
This allows the kernel to default to the faster binary GCD when FFS is
efficient, while retaining the ability to fall back when needed.

Co-developed-by: Yu-Chun Lin <eleanor15x@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yu-Chun Lin <eleanor15x@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
---
 lib/math/gcd.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/math/gcd.c b/lib/math/gcd.c
index e3b042214d1b..2898ee0e5add 100644
--- a/lib/math/gcd.c
+++ b/lib/math/gcd.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/gcd.h>
 #include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/jump_label.h>
 
 /*
  * This implements the binary GCD algorithm. (Often attributed to Stein,
@@ -11,16 +12,13 @@
  * has decent hardware division.
  */
 
+DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(efficient_ffs_key);
+
 #if !defined(CONFIG_CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS)
 
 /* If __ffs is available, the even/odd algorithm benchmarks slower. */
 
-/**
- * gcd - calculate and return the greatest common divisor of 2 unsigned longs
- * @a: first value
- * @b: second value
- */
-unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
+static unsigned long binary_gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
 {
 	unsigned long r = a | b;
 
@@ -44,9 +42,15 @@ unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
 	}
 }
 
-#else
+#endif
 
 /* If normalization is done by loops, the even/odd algorithm is a win. */
+
+/**
+ * gcd - calculate and return the greatest common divisor of 2 unsigned longs
+ * @a: first value
+ * @b: second value
+ */
 unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
 {
 	unsigned long r = a | b;
@@ -54,6 +58,11 @@ unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
 	if (!a || !b)
 		return r;
 
+#if !defined(CONFIG_CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS)
+	if (static_branch_likely(&efficient_ffs_key))
+		return binary_gcd(a, b);
+#endif
+
 	/* Isolate lsbit of r */
 	r &= -r;
 
@@ -80,6 +89,4 @@ unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
 	}
 }
 
-#endif
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gcd);
-- 
2.34.1


  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-24 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-24 15:55 [PATCH v2 0/3] Optimize GCD performance on RISC-V by selecting implementation at runtime Kuan-Wei Chiu
2025-05-24 15:55 ` Kuan-Wei Chiu [this message]
2025-06-04 23:01   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] lib/math/gcd: Use static key to select " Andrew Morton
2025-05-24 15:55 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] riscv: Optimize gcd() code size when CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZBB is disabled Kuan-Wei Chiu
2025-05-24 15:55 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] riscv: Optimize gcd() performance on RISC-V without Zbb extension Kuan-Wei Chiu
2025-06-04 23:02   ` Andrew Morton

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