netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf, x86: Small optimization in comparing against imm0

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Date:   Thu, 3 Oct 2019 13:52:14 -0700
From:   Song Liu <liu.song.a23@...il.com>
To:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf, x86: Small optimization in comparing
 against imm0

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 5:30 PM Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net> wrote:
>
> Replace 'cmp reg, 0' with 'test reg, reg' for comparisons against
> zero. Saves 1 byte of instruction encoding per occurrence. The flag
> results of test 'reg, reg' are identical to 'cmp reg, 0' in all
> cases except for AF which we don't use/care about. In terms of
> macro-fusibility in combination with a subsequent conditional jump
> instruction, both have the same properties for the jumps used in
> the JIT translation. For example, same JITed Cilium program can
> shrink a bit from e.g. 12,455 to 12,317 bytes as tests with 0 are
> used quite frequently.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>

Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>