Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:30:38 -0500 | From | Bob Pearson <> | Subject | [PATCH v6 09/10] crc32-optimize-loops-for-x86.diff |
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Add two changes that improve the performance of x86 systems 1. replace main loop with incrementing counter this change improves the performance of the selftest by about 5-6% on Nehalem CPUs. The apparent reason is that the compiler can use the loop index to perform an indexed memory access. This is reported to make the performance of PowerPC CPUs to get worse. 2. replace the rem_len loop with incrementing counter this change improves the performance of the selftest, which has more than the usual number of occurances, by about 1-2% on x86 CPUs. In actual work loads the length is most often a multiple of 4 bytes and this code does not get executed as often if at all. Again this change is reported to make the performance of PowerPC get worse.
Signed-off-by: Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com>
--- lib/crc32.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
Index: for-next/lib/crc32.c =================================================================== --- for-next.orig/lib/crc32.c +++ for-next/lib/crc32.c @@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ crc32_body(u32 crc, unsigned char const # endif const u32 *b; size_t rem_len; +# ifdef CONFIG_X86 + size_t i; +# endif const u32 *t0 = tab[0], *t1 = tab[1], *t2 = tab[2], *t3 = tab[3]; const u32 *t4 = tab[4], *t5 = tab[5], *t6 = tab[6], *t7 = tab[7]; u32 q; @@ -86,7 +89,12 @@ crc32_body(u32 crc, unsigned char const # endif b = (const u32 *)buf; +# ifdef CONFIG_X86 + --b; + for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { +# else for (--b; len; --len) { +# endif q = crc ^ *++b; /* use pre increment for speed */ # if CRC_LE_BITS == 32 crc = DO_CRC4; @@ -100,9 +108,14 @@ crc32_body(u32 crc, unsigned char const /* And the last few bytes */ if (len) { u8 *p = (u8 *)(b + 1) - 1; +# ifdef CONFIG_X86 + for (i = 0; i < len; i++) + DO_CRC(*++p); /* use pre increment for speed */ +# else do { DO_CRC(*++p); /* use pre increment for speed */ } while (--len); +# endif } return crc; #undef DO_CRC
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