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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] lib: use sunday algorithm to do strstr() and
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To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>,
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在 2018/7/27 18:39, Andy Shevchenko 写道:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 8:48 AM, Zhaoxiu Zeng <zengzhaoxiu@163.com> wrote:
>> 在 2018/7/27 1:17, Zhaoxiu Zeng 写道:
>>> 在 2018/7/23 2:37, Greg Kroah-Hartman 写道:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 01:37:15AM +0800, Zhaoxiu Zeng wrote:
> 
>>>>> The Sunday algorithm is a variation of Boyer-Moore algorithm, it is easy and fast.
>>>>> For the Sunday algorithm, to see
>>>>>     http://www.inf.fh-flensburg.de/lang/algorithmen/pattern/sundayen.htm
>>>>
>>>> So you say, but what does this really buy us?  Why make this change?
>>>> How was it tested?  What is the downside of not taking this?
> 
>>> I use the following program to test on fc28.
>>> Compile with O2, the new version is almost 2X faster than the original.
> 
>>> The code size of the original is 0x80, the newer is 0xB0.
> 
> So, output of bloat-o-meter would be good to have in commit message.
> 
>>> The test result:
> 
> Compact performance statistics as well.
> 
>>> Thanks!
> 
>> The original strnstr might has a bug too!
>> For example, assume s1 is "123\0abc...." and s2 is "abc\0",
>> call strnstr(s1, s2, 7) will return &s1[4], but the correct result is NULL.
> 
> If there is a bug, send another patch to fix the bug first.
> 

The bug could be fixed by this patch.