[TG3]: Avoid an expensive divide.
During an oprofile session of linux-2.6.20 on a dual opteron system, I noticed an expensive divide was done in tg3_poll(). I am using gcc-4.1.1, so the following comment from drivers/net/tg3.c seems over-optimistic : /* Do not place this n-ring entries value into the tp struct itself, * we really want to expose these constants to GCC so that modulo et * al. operations are done with shifts and masks instead of with * hw multiply/modulo instructions. Another solution would be to * replace things like '% foo' with '& (foo - 1)'. */ #define TG3_RX_RCB_RING_SIZE(tp) \ ((tp->tg3_flags2 & TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS) ? 512 : 1024) Assembly code before patch : (oprofile results included) 6434 0.0088 :ffffffff803684b9: mov 0x6f0(%r15),%eax 587 8.0e-04 :ffffffff803684c0: and $0x40000,%eax 2170 0.0030 :ffffffff803684c5: cmp $0x1,%eax :ffffffff803684c8: lea 0x1(%r13),%eax :ffffffff803684cc: sbb %ecx,%ecx 2051 0.0028 :ffffffff803684ce: xor %edx,%edx :ffffffff803684d0: and $0x200,%ecx 20 2.7e-05 :ffffffff803684d6: add $0x200,%ecx 1986 0.0027 :ffffffff803684dc: div %ecx 103427 0.1410 :ffffffff803684de: cmp %edx,0xffffffffffffff7c(%rbp) Assembly code after the suggested patch : ffffffff803684b9: mov 0x6f0(%r15),%eax ffffffff803684c0: and $0x40000,%eax ffffffff803684c5: cmp $0x1,%eax ffffffff803684c8: sbb %eax,%eax ffffffff803684ca: inc %r13d ffffffff803684cd: and $0x200,%eax ffffffff803684d2: add $0x1ff,%eax ffffffff803684d7: and %eax,%r13d ffffffff803684da: cmp %r13d,0xffffffffffffff7c(%rbp) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Acked-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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