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From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
To: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: Song Liu <liu.song.a23@gmail.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	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: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 12:36:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAADnVQLXdNU8V=EBrriPNThFS7fbPSqUekkMR3M4WW8mkKCuRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d9663547acce_59e82ace6a9345b4a3@john-XPS-13-9370.notmuch>

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 2:08 PM John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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>

Applied both. Thanks

      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-04 19:36 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
2019-10-04 19:36     ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]

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