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[89.67.112.196]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4a0019057cfsm73615905e9.11.2026.09.27.06.20.00 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:20:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Demian Shulhan To: Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon Cc: Demian Shulhan , Mark Rutland , Eric Biggers , Andrew Morton , Marco Elver , Ard Biesheuvel , Robin Murphy , David Gow , Brendan Higgins , Nathan Chancellor , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kunit-dev@googlegroups.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev Subject: [PATCH 0/2] arm64: csum: Add fused copy and Internet checksum Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:17:56 +0200 Message-ID: <20260927131838.6774-1-demyansh@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit arm64 currently uses the generic csum_partial_copy_nocheck(), which performs memcpy() followed by a second pass for csum_partial(). This double pass exerts unnecessary pressure on the L1 cache. Replace it with a single-pass implementation. The new implementation provides a general-purpose register path for short buffers and atomic contexts, and a kernel-mode NEON path for lengths >= 1024 bytes. Measured in-kernel on an Ampere Altra (Neoverse-N1): - Scalar path: 1.2x-1.6x faster for lengths < 1024 bytes. - NEON path: 1.2x faster at 1024 bytes, scaling up to 1.6x-1.8x at 4096 bytes. On Apple M-series cores, gains are 1.3-1.7x below 1024 bytes and 1.6-2.4x above. No length or alignment regresses on either microarchitecture. Patch 1 implements the fused routines and the dispatcher. Patch 2 adds KUnit test coverage for the new API and internal paths. Tested: in-kernel benchmark module on Neoverse-N1 with both implementations cross-checked (0 mismatches); KUnit suite under QEMU (with/without KASAN, with PREEMPT_RT), exhaustive and random userspace testing of both routines against a naive reference with PROT_NONE guard pages, gcc 13 and clang 18 W=1 builds, checkpatch --strict. Demian Shulhan (2): arm64: csum: Add fused copy and Internet checksum lib/tests: checksum: Add KUnit tests for csum_partial_copy_nocheck() arch/arm64/include/asm/checksum.h | 3 + arch/arm64/lib/Makefile | 7 +- arch/arm64/lib/csum-copy-neon.c | 168 +++++++++++ arch/arm64/lib/csum-copy.c | 108 +++++++ arch/arm64/lib/csum-copy.h | 84 ++++++ arch/arm64/lib/csum.c | 54 ++++ lib/Kconfig.debug | 10 + lib/tests/checksum_kunit.c | 463 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 8 files changed, 896 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 arch/arm64/lib/csum-copy-neon.c create mode 100644 arch/arm64/lib/csum-copy.c create mode 100644 arch/arm64/lib/csum-copy.h base-commit: 93f51579e7df248780214094418f205253383cc5 -- 2.43.0