netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 0/6] Zbb support and code simplification for RV64 JIT

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Message-ID: <87le8ptzqu.fsf@all.your.base.are.belong.to.us>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:05:13 +0100
From: Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>
To: Pu Lehui <pulehui@...weicloud.com>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, Daniel Borkmann
 <daniel@...earbox.net>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Martin KaFai
 Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Yonghong Song
 <yhs@...com>, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, KP Singh
 <kpsingh@...nel.org>, Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>, Hao Luo
 <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Palmer Dabbelt
 <palmer@...belt.com>, Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>, Luke Nelson
 <luke.r.nels@...il.com>, Pu Lehui <pulehui@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 0/6] Zbb support and code simplification for
 RV64 JIT

Pu Lehui <pulehui@...weicloud.com> writes:

> On 2023/9/28 18:44, Björn Töpel wrote:
>> Pu Lehui <pulehui@...weicloud.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Add Zbb support [0] to optimize code size and performance of RV64 JIT.
>>> Meanwhile, adjust the code for unification and simplification. Tests
>>> test_bpf.ko and test_verifier have passed, as well as the relative
>>> testcases of test_progs*.
>> 
>> Nice work!
>> 
>> Did you measure how the instruction count changed for, say, test_bpf.ko
>> and test_progs? >
>
> Sorry for not responding for so long.

Welcome back!

> I made statistics on the number of body instructions and the changes are 
> as follows:
>
> test_progs:
> 1. verifier_movsx: 260 -> 224
> 2. verifier_bswap: 180 -> 56
>
> test_bpf.ko:
> 1. MOVSX: 154 -> 146
> 2. BSWAP: 336 -> 136
>
> We can see that the change in BSWAP is obvious, and the change in MOVSX 
> is in line with expectations.

Thank you. I'll test/review the v3 during the week!


Cheers,
Björn