Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964793AbWAZQkl (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:40:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964802AbWAZQkk (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:40:40 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:59150 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964793AbWAZQkh (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:40:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:40:21 +0000 From: Russell King To: Grant Grundler Cc: Akinobu Mita , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ivan Kokshaysky , Ian Molton , dev-etrax@axis.com, David Howells , Yoshinori Sato , Linus Torvalds , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Hirokazu Takata , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, Greg Ungerer , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux390@de.ibm.com, linuxsh-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, linuxsh-shmedia-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, ultralinux@vger.kernel.org, Miles Bader , Andi Kleen , Chris Zankel Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH 3/6] C-language equivalents of include/asm-*/bitops.h Message-ID: <20060126164020.GA27222@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Grant Grundler , Akinobu Mita , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ivan Kokshaysky , Ian Molton , dev-etrax@axis.com, David Howells , Yoshinori Sato , Linus Torvalds , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Hirokazu Takata , linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, Greg Ungerer , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux390@de.ibm.com, linuxsh-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, linuxsh-shmedia-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, ultralinux@vger.kernel.org, Miles Bader , Andi Kleen , Chris Zankel References: <20060125112625.GA18584@miraclelinux.com> <20060125113206.GD18584@miraclelinux.com> <20060125200250.GA26443@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20060126000618.GA5592@twiddle.net> <20060126085540.GA15377@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20060126161849.GA13632@colo.lackof.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060126161849.GA13632@colo.lackof.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5129 Lines: 168 On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:18:49AM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:55:41AM +0000, Russell King wrote: > > Unfortunately that's not correct. You do not appear to have checked > > the compiler output like I did - this code does _not_ generate > > constant shifts. > > Russell, > By "written stupidly", I thought Richard meant they could have > used constants instead of "s". e.g.: > if (word << 16 == 0) { b += 16; word >>= 16); } > if (word << 24 == 0) { b += 8; word >>= 8); } > if (word << 28 == 0) { b += 4; word >>= 4); } > > But I prefer what Edgar Toernig suggested. Ok, I can see I'm going to lose this, but what the hell. Firstly though, an out of line function call on ARM clobbers six out of 11 CPU registers. Let's compare the implementations, which are: int toernig_ffs(unsigned long word) { int bit = 0; word &= -word; // only keep the lsb. if (word & 0xffff0000) bit |= 16; if (word & 0xff00ff00) bit |= 8; if (word & 0xf0f0f0f0) bit |= 4; if (word & 0xcccccccc) bit |= 2; if (word & 0xaaaaaaaa) bit |= 1; return bit; } toernig_ffs: rsb r3, r0, #0 and r0, r0, r3 mov r3, r0, lsr #16 bic r2, r0, #16711680 str lr, [sp, #-4]! mov r3, r3, asl #16 ldr lr, .L7 ldr r1, .L7+4 ldr ip, .L7+8 cmp r3, #0 bic r2, r2, #255 and lr, r0, lr and r1, r0, r1 and ip, r0, ip movne r0, #16 moveq r0, #0 cmp r2, #0 orrne r0, r0, #8 cmp r1, #0 orrne r0, r0, #4 cmp ip, #0 orrne r0, r0, #2 cmp lr, #0 orrne r0, r0, #1 ldr pc, [sp], #4 .L8: .align 2 .L7: .word -1431655766 .word -252645136 .word -858993460 25 instructions. 3 words of additional data. 5 registers. 0 register based shifts. I feel that this is far too expensive to sanely inline - at least three words of additional data for a use in a function, and has a high register usage comparable to that of an out of line function. int mita_ffs(unsigned long word) { int b = 0, s; s = 16; if (word << 16 != 0) s = 0; b += s; word >>= s; s = 8; if (word << 24 != 0) s = 0; b += s; word >>= s; s = 4; if (word << 28 != 0) s = 0; b += s; word >>= s; s = 2; if (word << 30 != 0) s = 0; b += s; word >>= s; s = 1; if (word << 31 != 0) s = 0; b += s; return b; } mita_ffs: movs r1, r0, asl #16 moveq r2, #16 movne r2, #0 mov r0, r0, lsr r2 @ register-based shift mov r3, r2 movs r2, r0, asl #24 moveq r2, #8 movne r2, #0 mov r0, r0, lsr r2 @ register-based shift movs r1, r0, asl #28 add r3, r3, r2 moveq r2, #4 movne r2, #0 mov r0, r0, lsr r2 @ register-based shift movs r1, r0, asl #30 add r3, r3, r2 moveq r2, #2 movne r2, #0 mov r0, r0, lsr r2 @ register-based shift tst r0, #1 add r3, r3, r2 moveq r2, #1 movne r2, #0 add r3, r3, r2 mov r0, r3 mov pc, lr 26 instructions. 4 registers used. 4 unconditional register-based shifts (expensive). Better, but uses inefficient register based shifts (which can take twice as many cycles as non-register based shifts depending on the CPU). Still has a high usage on CPU registers though. Could possibly be a candidate for inlining. int arm_ffs(unsigned long word) { int k = 31; if (word & 0x0000ffff) { k -= 16; word <<= 16; } if (word & 0x00ff0000) { k -= 8; word <<= 8; } if (word & 0x0f000000) { k -= 4; word <<= 4; } if (word & 0x30000000) { k -= 2; word <<= 2; } if (word & 0x40000000) { k -= 1; } return k; } arm_ffs: mov r3, r0, asl #16 mov r3, r3, lsr #16 cmp r3, #0 movne r0, r0, asl #16 mov r3, #31 movne r3, #15 tst r0, #16711680 movne r0, r0, asl #8 subne r3, r3, #8 tst r0, #251658240 movne r0, r0, asl #4 subne r3, r3, #4 tst r0, #805306368 movne r0, r0, asl #2 subne r3, r3, #2 tst r0, #1073741824 subne r3, r3, #1 mov r0, r3 mov pc, lr 19 instructions. 2 registers. 0 register based shifts. More reasonable for inlining. Clearly the smallest of the lot with the smallest register pressure, being the best candidate out of the lot, whether we inline it or not. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/