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From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/string: Bring optimized memcmp from glibc
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 11:28:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80b4bbe8-2394-cfbb-ace1-9402169f5131@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgMyXh3gGuSzj_Dgw=Gn_XPxGSTPq6Pz7dEyx6JNuAh9g@mail.gmail.com>



On 21.07.21 г. 21:45, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 11:17 AM Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> I find it somewhat arbitrary that we choose to align the 2nd pointer and
>> not the first.
> 
> Yeah, that's a bit odd, but I don't think it matters.
> 
> The hope is obviously that they are mutually aligned, and in that case
> it doesn't matter which one you aim to align.
> 
>> So you are saying that the current memcmp could indeed use improvement
>> but you don't want it to be based on the glibc's code due to the ugly
>> misalignment handling?
> 
> Yeah. I suspect that this (very simple) patch gives you the same
> performance improvement that the glibc code does.

You suspect correctly, perf profile:

30.44%    -29.38%  [kernel.vmlinux]         [k] memcmp

This is only on x86-64 as I don't have other arch handy. But this one is
definitely good.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-22  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-21 13:59 Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-21 14:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 14:35   ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-21 14:42     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-21 14:51       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-21 15:17         ` Peter.Enderborg
2021-07-21 15:34           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-21 15:39             ` Peter.Enderborg
2021-07-21 18:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-21 18:17   ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-21 18:45     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-21 18:55       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-21 19:26       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-22 11:28         ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-22 16:40           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-22 17:03             ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-08-26  9:03             ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-22  8:28       ` Nikolay Borisov [this message]
2021-07-23 14:02       ` David Laight
2021-07-21 20:10   ` David Sterba
2021-07-21 20:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-22  5:54       ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-28 20:12 ` Florian Weimer

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