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From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ian Abbott <ian.abbott@mev.co.uk>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"arnd@arndb.de" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/checksum.c: optimize do_csum a bit
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:32:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E15995D.6040405@mev.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110707.042925.1609726410655229616.davem@davemloft.net>

On 07/07/11 12:29, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:18:49 +0100
> 
>> Reduce the number of variables modified by the loop in do_csum() by 1,
>> which seems like a good idea.  On Nios II (a RISC CPU with 3-operand
>> instruction set) it reduces the loop from 7 to 6 instructions, including
>> the conditional branch.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
> 
> I think you'll overshoot past the end of the buffer when there are
> trailing bytes to handle.
> 
> The whole reason we need the count variable is to handle those
> kinds of cases.

I don't think it does.  That's what the & ~3 was for.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-07 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-07 11:18 Ian Abbott
2011-07-07 11:29 ` David Miller
2011-07-07 11:32   ` Ian Abbott [this message]
2011-07-07 11:36     ` David Miller
2011-07-07 11:52       ` David Miller

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