From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
To: Song Liu <liu.song.a23@gmail.com>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf, x86: Small optimization in comparing against imm0
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:08:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d9663547acce_59e82ace6a9345b4a3@john-XPS-13-9370.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPhsuW6==Ukxjh69SVLusC=GMf=65Y2T0gLNig55obwbS-7VqQ@mail.gmail.com>
Song Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 5:30 PM Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> wrote:
> >
> > Replace 'cmp reg, 0' with 'test reg, reg' for comparisons against
> > zero. Saves 1 byte of instruction encoding per occurrence. The flag
> > results of test 'reg, reg' are identical to 'cmp reg, 0' in all
> > cases except for AF which we don't use/care about. In terms of
> > macro-fusibility in combination with a subsequent conditional jump
> > instruction, both have the same properties for the jumps used in
> > the JIT translation. For example, same JITed Cilium program can
> > shrink a bit from e.g. 12,455 to 12,317 bytes as tests with 0 are
> > used quite frequently.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
>
> Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Bonus points for causing me to spend the morning remembering the
differences between cmd, and, or, and test.
Also wonder if at some point we should clean up the jit a bit and
add some defines/helpers for all the open coded opcodes and such.
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-03 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-02 23:45 [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf, x86: Small optimization in comparing against imm0 Daniel Borkmann
2019-10-02 23:45 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] bpf: Add loop test case with 32 bit reg comparison against 0 Daniel Borkmann
2019-10-03 20:56 ` Song Liu
2019-10-03 20:52 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf, x86: Small optimization in comparing against imm0 Song Liu
2019-10-03 21:08 ` John Fastabend [this message]
2019-10-04 19:36 ` Alexei Starovoitov
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