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Commit 1e17fb8e authored by Clement Courbet's avatar Clement Courbet Committed by Peter Zijlstra
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sched: Optimize __calc_delta()

A significant portion of __calc_delta() time is spent in the loop
shifting a u64 by 32 bits. Use `fls` instead of iterating.

This is ~7x faster on benchmarks.

The generic `fls` implementation (`generic_fls`) is still ~4x faster
than the loop.
Architectures that have a better implementation will make use of it. For
example, on x86 we get an additional factor 2 in speed without dedicated
implementation.

On GCC, the asm versions of `fls` are about the same speed as the
builtin. On Clang, the versions that use fls are more than twice as
slow as the builtin. This is because the way the `fls` function is
written, clang puts the value in memory:
https://godbolt.org/z/EfMbYe. This bug is filed at
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?idI406

.

```
name                                   cpu/op
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_loop>             9.57ms Â=B112%
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_generic_fls>      2.36ms Â=B113%
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_asm_fls>          2.45ms Â=B113%
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_asm_fls_nomem>    1.66ms Â=B112%
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_asm_fls64>        2.46ms Â=B113%
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_asm_fls64_nomem>  1.34ms Â=B115%
BM_Calc<__calc_delta_builtin>          1.32ms Â=B111%
```

Signed-off-by: default avatarClement Courbet <courbet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210303224653.2579656-1-joshdon@google.com
parent 4117cebf
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