netdev - Re: [PATCH] sparc64: Support cbcond instructions in eBPF JIT.

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Date:   Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:09:17 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <daniel@...earbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc64: Support cbcond instructions in eBPF JIT.

On 4/24/17 4:02 PM, David Miller wrote:
>
> cbcond combines a compare with a branch into a single instruction.
>
> The limitations are:
>
> 1) Only newer chips support it
>
> 2) For immediate compares we are limited to 5-bit signed immediate
>    values
>
> 3) The branch displacement is limited to 10-bit signed
>
> 4) We cannot use it for JSET

llvm doesn't know how to generate it yet. So it's only seen after
classic->extended conversion.
Hence not a concern at all for this optimization.

> Also, cbcond (unlike all other sparc control transfers) lacks a delay
> slot.
>
> Currently we don't have a useful instruction we can push into the
> delay slot of normal branches.  So using cbcond pretty much always
> increases code density, and is therefore a win.
>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

Nice!
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>

That puts up a pressure to optimize x64 JIT too :)