On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 08:36:00PM +0800, Shan Wei wrote: > Steffen Klassert said, at 2012/11/13 18:48: > > > > Ok, so please add a commit message to describe your changes. > > > > Thanks. > > > > [PATCH v5] net: xfrm: use __this_cpu_read per-cpu helper > > this_cpu_ptr/this_cpu_read is faster than per_cpu_ptr(p, smp_processor_id()) > and can reduce memory accesses. > The latter helper needs to find the offset for current cpu, > and needs more assembler instructions which objdump shows in following. > > this_cpu_ptr relocates and address. this_cpu_read() relocates the address > and performs the fetch. this_cpu_read() saves you more instructions > since it can do the relocation and the fetch in one instruction. > > per_cpu_ptr(p, smp_processor_id())： > 1e: 65 8b 04 25 00 00 00 00 mov %gs:0x0,%eax > 26: 48 98 cltq > 28: 31 f6 xor %esi,%esi > 2a: 48 c7 c7 00 00 00 00 mov $0x0,%rdi > 31: 48 8b 04 c5 00 00 00 00 mov 0x0(,%rax,8),%rax > 39: c7 44 10 04 14 00 00 00 movl $0x14,0x4(%rax,%rdx,1) > > this_cpu_ptr(p) > 1e: 65 48 03 14 25 00 00 00 00 add %gs:0x0,%rdx > 27: 31 f6 xor %esi,%esi > 29: c7 42 04 14 00 00 00 movl $0x14,0x4(%rdx) > 30: 48 c7 c7 00 00 00 00 mov $0x0,%rdi > > Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davids...@tencent.com>
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