The code execute on my system performance improves from
# time ./old
real 0m6.645s
user 0m6.644s
sys 0m0.001s
to
# time ./new
real 0m5.565s
user 0m5.565s
sys 0m0.000s
> Improve the performance of the crc32() asm routines by getting rid of most of
> the branches and small sized loads on the common path.
>
> Instead, use a branchless code path involving overlapping 16 byte loads to
> process the first (length % 32) bytes, and process the remainder using a loop
> that processes 32 bytes at a time.
>
> Tested using the following test program:
>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> extern void crc32_le(unsigned short, char const*, int);
>
> int main(void)
> {
> static const char buf[4096];
>
> srand(20181126);
>
> for (int i = 0; i < 100 * 1000 * 1000; i++)
> crc32_le(0, buf, rand() % 1024);
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> On Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57, the performance regresses but only very
> slightly. On Cortex-A72 however, the performance improves from
>
> $ time ./crc32
>
> real 0m10.149s
> user 0m10.149s
> sys 0m0.000s
>
> to
>
> $ time ./crc32
>
> real 0m7.915s
> user 0m7.915s
> sys 0m0.000s
>
> Cc: Rui Sun <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
> ---
> Cortex-A57 tcrypt results after the patch.
>
> I ran Rui's code [0] as well. On Cortex-A57, performance regresses a bit more
> (but not dramatically). On Cortex-A72, it executes at
>
> $ time ./crc32
>
> real 0m9.625s
> user 0m9.625s
> sys 0m0.000s
>
> Rui, can you please benchmark this code on your system as well?
>
> [0]
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
>
> arch/arm64/lib/crc32.S | 54 ++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/crc32.S b/arch/arm64/lib/crc32.S index
> 5bc1e85b4e1c..f132f2a7522e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/lib/crc32.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/lib/crc32.S
> @@ -15,15 +15,59 @@
> .cpu generic+crc
>
> .macro __crc32, c
> -0: subs x2, x2, #16
> - b.mi 8f
> - ldp x3, x4, [x1], #16
> + cmp x2, #16
> + b.lt 8f // less than 16 bytes
> +
> + and x7, x2, #0x1f
> + and x2, x2, #~0x1f
> + cbz x7, 32f // multiple of 32 bytes
> +
> + and x8, x7, #0xf
> + ldp x3, x4, [x1]
> + add x8, x8, x1
> + add x1, x1, x7
> + ldp x5, x6, [x8]
> CPU_BE( rev x3, x3 )
> CPU_BE( rev x4, x4 )
> +CPU_BE( rev x5, x5 )
> +CPU_BE( rev x6, x6 )
> +
> + tst x7, #8
> + crc32\c\()x w8, w0, x3
> + csel x3, x3, x4, eq
> + csel w0, w0, w8, eq
> + tst x7, #4
> + lsr x4, x3, #32
> + crc32\c\()w w8, w0, w3
> + csel x3, x3, x4, eq
> + csel w0, w0, w8, eq
> + tst x7, #2
> + lsr w4, w3, #16
> + crc32\c\()h w8, w0, w3
> + csel w3, w3, w4, eq
> + csel w0, w0, w8, eq
> + tst x7, #1
> + crc32\c\()b w8, w0, w3
> + csel w0, w0, w8, eq
> + tst x7, #16
> + crc32\c\()x w8, w0, x5
> + crc32\c\()x w8, w8, x6
> + csel w0, w0, w8, eq
> + cbz x2, 0f
> +
> +32: ldp x3, x4, [x1], #32
> + sub x2, x2, #32
> + ldp x5, x6, [x1, #-16]
> +CPU_BE( rev x3, x3 )
> +CPU_BE( rev x4, x4 )
> +CPU_BE( rev x5, x5 )
> +CPU_BE( rev x6, x6 )
> crc32\c\()x w0, w0, x3
> crc32\c\()x w0, w0, x4
> - b.ne 0b
> - ret
> + crc32\c\()x w0, w0, x5
> + crc32\c\()x w0, w0, x6
> + cbnz x2, 32b
> +0: ret
>
> 8: tbz x2, #3, 4f
> ldr x3, [x1], #8
> --
> 2.19.1
>
>
> BEFORE testing speed of async crc32c (crc32c-generic)
> tcrypt: test 0 ( 16 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 35416299 opers/sec, 566660784 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 1 ( 64 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 4 updates):
> 5342888 opers/sec, 341944832 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 2 ( 64 byte blocks, 64 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 30056634 opers/sec, 1923624576 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 3 ( 256 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 16 updates):
> 1543567 opers/sec, 395153152 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 4 ( 256 byte blocks, 64 bytes per update, 4 updates):
> 4865198 opers/sec, 1245490688 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 5 ( 256 byte blocks, 256 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 12709474 opers/sec, 3253625344 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 6 ( 1024 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 64 updates):
> 401746 opers/sec, 411387904 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 7 ( 1024 byte blocks, 256 bytes per update, 4 updates):
> 2576764 opers/sec, 2638606336 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 8 ( 1024 byte blocks, 1024 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 4464109 opers/sec, 4571247616 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 9 ( 2048 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 128 updates):
> 202236 opers/sec, 414179328 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 10 ( 2048 byte blocks, 256 bytes per update, 8 updates):
> 1344017 opers/sec, 2752546816 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 11 ( 2048 byte blocks, 1024 bytes per update, 2 updates):
> 2000544 opers/sec, 4097114112 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 12 ( 2048 byte blocks, 2048 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 2395890 opers/sec, 4906782720 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 13 ( 4096 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 256 updates):
> 101569 opers/sec, 416026624 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 14 ( 4096 byte blocks, 256 bytes per update, 16 updates):
> 687876 opers/sec, 2817540096 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 15 ( 4096 byte blocks, 1024 bytes per update, 4 updates):
> 1029042 opers/sec, 4214956032 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 16 ( 4096 byte blocks, 4096 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 1206227 opers/sec, 4940705792 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 17 ( 8192 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 512 updates):
> 50842 opers/sec, 416497664 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 18 ( 8192 byte blocks, 256 bytes per update, 32 updates):
> 347779 opers/sec, 2849005568 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 19 ( 8192 byte blocks, 1024 bytes per update, 8 updates):
> 525054 opers/sec, 4301242368 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 20 ( 8192 byte blocks, 4096 bytes per update, 2 updates):
> 600919 opers/sec, 4922728448 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 21 ( 8192 byte blocks, 8192 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 606954 opers/sec, 4972167168 bytes/sec
>
> AFTER testing speed of async crc32c (crc32c-generic)
> tcrypt: test 0 ( 16 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 30535173 opers/sec, 488562768 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 1 ( 64 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 4 updates):
> 4798401 opers/sec, 307097664 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 2 ( 64 byte blocks, 64 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 30061075 opers/sec, 1923908800 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 3 ( 256 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 16 updates):
> 1359905 opers/sec, 348135680 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 4 ( 256 byte blocks, 64 bytes per update, 4 updates):
> 4862043 opers/sec, 1244683008 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 5 ( 256 byte blocks, 256 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 14375092 opers/sec, 3680023552 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 6 ( 1024 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 64 updates):
> 351936 opers/sec, 360382464 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 7 ( 1024 byte blocks, 256 bytes per update, 4 updates):
> 2665564 opers/sec, 2729537536 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 8 ( 1024 byte blocks, 1024 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 4467924 opers/sec, 4575154176 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 9 ( 2048 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 128 updates):
> 177021 opers/sec, 362539008 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 10 ( 2048 byte blocks, 256 bytes per update, 8 updates):
> 1414689 opers/sec, 2897283072 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 11 ( 2048 byte blocks, 1024 bytes per update, 2 updates):
> 1995413 opers/sec, 4086605824 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 12 ( 2048 byte blocks, 2048 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 2393630 opers/sec, 4902154240 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 13 ( 4096 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 256 updates):
> 88758 opers/sec, 363552768 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 14 ( 4096 byte blocks, 256 bytes per update, 16 updates):
> 731752 opers/sec, 2997256192 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 15 ( 4096 byte blocks, 1024 bytes per update, 4 updates):
> 1030393 opers/sec, 4220489728 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 16 ( 4096 byte blocks, 4096 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 1205718 opers/sec, 4938620928 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 17 ( 8192 byte blocks, 16 bytes per update, 512 updates):
> 44450 opers/sec, 364134400 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 18 ( 8192 byte blocks, 256 bytes per update, 32 updates):
> 373236 opers/sec, 3057549312 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 19 ( 8192 byte blocks, 1024 bytes per update, 8 updates):
> 524905 opers/sec, 4300021760 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 20 ( 8192 byte blocks, 4096 bytes per update, 2 updates):
> 601242 opers/sec, 4925374464 bytes/sec
> tcrypt: test 21 ( 8192 byte blocks, 8192 bytes per update, 1 updates):
> 606769 opers/sec, 4970651648 bytes/sec
