From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: unfold two critical loops in ip_packet_match() Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:02:17 +0100 Message-ID: <499E7FA9.6070707@cosmosbay.com> References: <497E361B.30909@hp.com> <497E42F4.7080201@cosmosbay.com> <497E44F6.2010703@hp.com> <497ECF84.1030308@cosmosbay.com> <497ED0A2.6050707@trash.net> <497F350A.9020509@cosmosbay.com> <497F457F.2050802@trash.net> <497F4C2F.9000804@hp.com> <497F5BCD.9060807@hp.com> <497F5F86.9010101@hp.com> <498063E7.5030106@cosmosbay.com> <49808708.3050502@trash.net> <498090C1.5020400@cosmosbay.com> <49809716.3020204@cosmosbay.com> <4981CBE2.5020306@cosmosbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , Netfilter Developers , Linux Network Development list To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4981CBE2.5020306@cosmosbay.com> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org While doing oprofile tests I noticed two loops are not properly unrolled by gcc Using a hand coded unrolled loop provides nice speedup : ipt_do_table credited of 2.52 % of cpu instead of 3.29 % in tbench. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet --- diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c index 08cde5b..e5294ae 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c @@ -74,6 +74,25 @@ do { \ Hence the start of any table is given by get_table() below. */ +static unsigned long ifname_compare(const char *_a, const char *_b, + const unsigned char *_mask) +{ + const unsigned long *a = (const unsigned long *)_a; + const unsigned long *b = (const unsigned long *)_b; + const unsigned long *mask = (const unsigned long *)_mask; + unsigned long ret; + + ret = (a[0] ^ b[0]) & mask[0]; + if (IFNAMSIZ > sizeof(unsigned long)) + ret |= (a[1] ^ b[1]) & mask[1]; + if (IFNAMSIZ > 2 * sizeof(unsigned long)) + ret |= (a[2] ^ b[2]) & mask[2]; + if (IFNAMSIZ > 3 * sizeof(unsigned long)) + ret |= (a[3] ^ b[3]) & mask[3]; + BUILD_BUG_ON(IFNAMSIZ > 4 * sizeof(unsigned long)); + return ret; +} + /* Returns whether matches rule or not. */ /* Performance critical - called for every packet */ static inline bool @@ -83,7 +102,6 @@ ip_packet_match(const struct iphdr *ip, const struct ipt_ip *ipinfo, int isfrag) { - size_t i; unsigned long ret; #define FWINV(bool, invflg) ((bool) ^ !!(ipinfo->invflags & (invflg))) @@ -103,12 +121,7 @@ ip_packet_match(const struct iphdr *ip, return false; } - /* Look for ifname matches; this should unroll nicely. */ - for (i = 0, ret = 0; i < IFNAMSIZ/sizeof(unsigned long); i++) { - ret |= (((const unsigned long *)indev)[i] - ^ ((const unsigned long *)ipinfo->iniface)[i]) - & ((const unsigned long *)ipinfo->iniface_mask)[i]; - } + ret = ifname_compare(indev, ipinfo->iniface, ipinfo->iniface_mask); if (FWINV(ret != 0, IPT_INV_VIA_IN)) { dprintf("VIA in mismatch (%s vs %s).%s\n", @@ -117,11 +130,7 @@ ip_packet_match(const struct iphdr *ip, return false; } - for (i = 0, ret = 0; i < IFNAMSIZ/sizeof(unsigned long); i++) { - ret |= (((const unsigned long *)outdev)[i] - ^ ((const unsigned long *)ipinfo->outiface)[i]) - & ((const unsigned long *)ipinfo->outiface_mask)[i]; - } + ret = ifname_compare(outdev, ipinfo->outiface, ipinfo->outiface_mask); if (FWINV(ret != 0, IPT_INV_VIA_OUT)) { dprintf("VIA out mismatch (%s vs %s).%s\n",