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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Ivan Orlov' <ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com>,
	"paul.walmsley@sifive.com" <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	"palmer@dabbelt.com" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	"aou@eecs.berkeley.edu" <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: "conor.dooley@microchip.com" <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
	"ajones@ventanamicro.com" <ajones@ventanamicro.com>,
	"samuel@sholland.org" <samuel@sholland.org>,
	"alexghiti@rivosinc.com" <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>,
	"linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"skhan@linuxfoundation.org" <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] riscv: lib: Optimize 'strlen' function
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:10:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a210197c479e48778672aa13287eef88@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231213154530.1970216-1-ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com>

From: Ivan Orlov
> Sent: 13 December 2023 15:46

Looking at the old code...

>  1:
> -	lbu	t0, 0(t1)
> -	beqz	t0, 2f
> -	addi	t1, t1, 1
> -	j	1b

I suspect there is (at least) a two clock stall between
the 'ldu' and 'beqz'.
Allowing for one clock for the 'predicted taken' branch
that is 7 clocks/byte.

Try this one - especially on 32bit:

	mov	t0, a0
	and	t1, t0, 1
	sub	t0, t0, t1
	bnez	t1, 2f
1:
	ldb	t1, 0(t0)
2:	ldb	t2, 1(t0)
	add	t0, t0, 2
	beqz	t1, 3f
	bnez	t2, 1b
	add	t0, t0, 1
3:	sub	t0, t0, 2
	sub	a0, t0, a0
	ret

Might be 6 clocks for 2 bytes.
The much smaller cache footprint will also help.

	David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-17 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-13 15:45 [PATCH] riscv: lib: Optimize 'strlen' function Ivan Orlov
2023-12-17 17:00 ` David Laight
2023-12-17 22:52   ` Ivan Orlov
2023-12-18  1:41   ` Ivan Orlov
2023-12-18  9:20     ` David Laight
2023-12-18 10:03       ` Ivan Orlov
2023-12-18 10:12         ` David Laight
2023-12-17 18:10 ` David Laight [this message]
2023-12-17 23:23   ` Ivan Orlov
2023-12-18  9:12     ` David Laight

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