On PPC_8xx, lwz has a 2 cycles latency, and branching also takes 2 cycles.
As the size of the header is minimum 5 words, we can unroll the loop for the
first words to reduce number of branching, and we can re-order the instructions
to limit loading latency.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr>

---
 arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_32.S | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_32.S b/arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_32.S
index 6d67e05..5500704 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_32.S
@@ -26,13 +26,17 @@
 _GLOBAL(ip_fast_csum)
        lwz     r0,0(r3)
        lwzu    r5,4(r3)
-       addic.  r4,r4,-2
+       addic.  r4,r4,-4
        addc    r0,r0,r5
        mtctr   r4
        blelr-
-1:     lwzu    r4,4(r3)
-       adde    r0,r0,r4
+       lwzu    r5,4(r3)
+       lwzu    r4,4(r3)
+       adde    r0,r0,r5
+1:     adde    r0,r0,r4
+       lwzu    r4,4(r3)
        bdnz    1b
+       adde    r0,r0,r4
        addze   r0,r0           /* add in final carry */
        rlwinm  r3,r0,16,0,31   /* fold two halves together */
        add     r3,r0,r3
-- 
2.1.0

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