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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: Implement fast csum_partial for x86_64
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:10:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568C6972.8020908@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452032313.8255.135.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 01/05/2016 02:18 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 10:41 -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:
>> Implement assembly routine for csum_partial for 64 bit x86. This
>> primarily speeds up checksum calculation for smaller lengths such as
>> those that are present when doing skb_postpull_rcsum when getting
>> CHECKSUM_COMPLETE from device or after CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
>> conversion.
> 
> Very nice !
> 
> 
> You might add a comment telling the '4' comes from length of 'adcq
> 6*8(%rdi),%rax' instruction, and that the 'nop' is to compensate that
> 'adcq    0*8(%rdi),%rax' is using 3 bytes instead.
> 
> We also could use .byte 0x48, 0x13, 0x47, 0x00 to force a 4 bytes
> instruction and remove the nop.
> 

Apparently "adcq.d8" will do The Right Thing for this.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-06  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-05 18:41 [PATCH v2 net-next] net: Implement fast csum_partial for x86_64 Tom Herbert
2016-01-05 22:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-01-06  1:10   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2016-01-06  3:02     ` Eric Dumazet
2016-01-06 10:16   ` David Laight
2016-01-06 14:25     ` Eric Dumazet
2016-01-06 14:49       ` David Laight
2016-01-06 15:03         ` Eric Dumazet
2016-01-05 23:35 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-01-06  3:21   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-01-06 20:05 ` Andi Kleen
2016-01-07  1:52 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-01-07  2:36   ` Tom Herbert
2016-01-07  2:43     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa

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