eth: Declare an optimized compare_ether_addr_64bits() function
authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:24:32 +0000 (23:24 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:24:32 +0000 (23:24 -0800)
Linus mentioned we could try to perform long word operations, even
on potentially unaligned addresses, on x86 at least. David mentioned
the HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS test to handle this on all
arches that have efficient unailgned accesses.

I tried this idea and got nice assembly on 32 bits:

158:   33 82 38 01 00 00       xor    0x138(%edx),%eax
15e:   33 8a 34 01 00 00       xor    0x134(%edx),%ecx
164:   c1 e0 10                shl    $0x10,%eax
167:   09 c1                   or     %eax,%ecx
169:   74 0b                   je     176 <eth_type_trans+0x87>

And very nice assembly on 64 bits of course (one xor, one shl)

Nice oprofile improvement in eth_type_trans(), 0.17 % instead of 0.41 %,
expected since we remove 8 instructions on a fast path.

This patch implements a compare_ether_addr_64bits() function, that
uses the CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS ifdef to efficiently
perform the 6 bytes comparison on all capable arches.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/etherdevice.h
net/ethernet/eth.c

index 0e5e9706003420f1d2074bc7df7d3d19883c92db..1cb0f0b90926116cdbe854b85a6b144a3bf021ed 100644 (file)
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/if_ether.h>
 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
+#include <asm/unaligned.h>
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 extern __be16          eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
@@ -140,6 +141,47 @@ static inline unsigned compare_ether_addr(const u8 *addr1, const u8 *addr2)
        BUILD_BUG_ON(ETH_ALEN != 6);
        return ((a[0] ^ b[0]) | (a[1] ^ b[1]) | (a[2] ^ b[2])) != 0;
 }
+
+static inline unsigned long zap_last_2bytes(unsigned long value)
+{
+#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
+       return value >> 16;
+#else
+       return value << 16;
+#endif
+}
+
+/**
+ * compare_ether_addr_64bits - Compare two Ethernet addresses
+ * @addr1: Pointer to an array of 8 bytes
+ * @addr2: Pointer to an other array of 8 bytes
+ *
+ * Compare two ethernet addresses, returns 0 if equal.
+ * Same result than "memcmp(addr1, addr2, ETH_ALEN)" but without conditional
+ * branches, and possibly long word memory accesses on CPU allowing cheap
+ * unaligned memory reads.
+ * arrays = { byte1, byte2, byte3, byte4, byte6, byte7, pad1, pad2}
+ *
+ * Please note that alignment of addr1 & addr2 is only guaranted to be 16 bits.
+ */
+
+static inline unsigned compare_ether_addr_64bits(const u8 addr1[6+2],
+                                                const u8 addr2[6+2])
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
+       unsigned long fold = ((*(unsigned long *)addr1) ^
+                             (*(unsigned long *)addr2));
+
+       if (sizeof(fold) == 8)
+               return zap_last_2bytes(fold) != 0;
+
+       fold |= zap_last_2bytes((*(unsigned long *)(addr1 + 4)) ^
+                               (*(unsigned long *)(addr2 + 4)));
+       return fold != 0;
+#else
+       return compare_ether_addr(addr1, addr2);
+#endif
+}
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_H */
index a87a171d99149d745cc81276e5e0cdcea635f883..280352aba4034bc2d343171e72f6942635fd74c3 100644 (file)
@@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ __be16 eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
        skb_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN);
        eth = eth_hdr(skb);
 
-       if (is_multicast_ether_addr(eth->h_dest)) {
-               if (!compare_ether_addr(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
+       if (unlikely(is_multicast_ether_addr(eth->h_dest))) {
+               if (!compare_ether_addr_64bits(eth->h_dest, dev->broadcast))
                        skb->pkt_type = PACKET_BROADCAST;
                else
                        skb->pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST;
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ __be16 eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
         */
 
        else if (1 /*dev->flags&IFF_PROMISC */ ) {
-               if (unlikely(compare_ether_addr(eth->h_dest, dev->dev_addr)))
+               if (unlikely(compare_ether_addr_64bits(eth->h_dest, dev->dev_addr)))
                        skb->pkt_type = PACKET_OTHERHOST;
        }