netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc: Implement csum_ipv6

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Date:   Wed, 23 May 2018 13:34:47 -0500
From:   Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc: Implement csum_ipv6_magic in assembly

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 08:57:01AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> The generic csum_ipv6_magic() generates a pretty bad result

<snip>

Please try with a more recent compiler, what you used is pretty ancient.
It's not like recent compilers do great on this either, but it's not
*that* bad anymore ;-)

> --- a/arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_32.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_32.S
> @@ -293,3 +293,36 @@ dst_error:
>  	EX_TABLE(51b, dst_error);
>  
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csum_partial_copy_generic)
> +
> +/*
> + * static inline __sum16 csum_ipv6_magic(const struct in6_addr *saddr,
> + *				      const struct in6_addr *daddr,
> + *				      __u32 len, __u8 proto, __wsum sum)
> + */
> +
> +_GLOBAL(csum_ipv6_magic)
> +	lwz	r8, 0(r3)
> +	lwz	r9, 4(r3)
> +	lwz	r10, 8(r3)
> +	lwz	r11, 12(r3)
> +	addc	r0, r5, r6
> +	adde	r0, r0, r7
> +	adde	r0, r0, r8
> +	adde	r0, r0, r9
> +	adde	r0, r0, r10
> +	adde	r0, r0, r11
> +	lwz	r8, 0(r4)
> +	lwz	r9, 4(r4)
> +	lwz	r10, 8(r4)
> +	lwz	r11, 12(r4)
> +	adde	r0, r0, r8
> +	adde	r0, r0, r9
> +	adde	r0, r0, r10
> +	adde	r0, r0, r11
> +	addze	r0, r0
> +	rotlwi	r3, r0, 16
> +	add	r3, r0, r3
> +	not	r3, r3
> +	rlwinm	r3, r3, 16, 16, 31
> +	blr
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(csum_ipv6_magic)

Clustering the loads and carry insns together is pretty much the worst you
can do on most 32-bit CPUs.


Segher