• E
    lib/extable.c: remove an expensive integer divide in search_extable() · 15ae02ba
    Eric Dumazet 提交于
    Actual code let compiler generates idiv instruction on x86.
    
    Using a right shift is OK here and readable as well.
    
    Before patch
       10:   57                      push   %edi
       11:   56                      push   %esi
       12:   89 d6                   mov    %edx,%esi
       14:   53                      push   %ebx
       15:   89 c3                   mov    %eax,%ebx
       17:   eb 22                   jmp    3b <search_extable+0x2b>
       19:   89 f0                   mov    %esi,%eax
       1b:   ba 02 00 00 00          mov    $0x2,%edx
       20:   29 d8                   sub    %ebx,%eax
       22:   89 d7                   mov    %edx,%edi
       24:   c1 f8 03                sar    $0x3,%eax
       27:   99                      cltd
       28:   f7 ff                   idiv   %edi
       2a:   8d 04 c3                lea    (%ebx,%eax,8),%eax
       2d:   39 08                   cmp    %ecx,(%eax)
    ...
    
    After patch
    
    00000010 <search_extable>:
       10:   53                      push   %ebx
       11:   89 c3                   mov    %eax,%ebx
       13:   eb 18                   jmp    2d <search_extable+0x1d>
       15:   89 d0                   mov    %edx,%eax
       17:   29 d8                   sub    %ebx,%eax
       19:   c1 f8 04                sar    $0x4,%eax
       1c:   8d 04 c3                lea    (%ebx,%eax,8),%eax
       1f:   39 08                   cmp    %ecx,(%eax)
    ...
    Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
    Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    15ae02ba
extable.c 1.9 KB