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authorDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2017-12-01 20:59:21 +0100
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2017-12-01 20:59:21 +0100
commit4485166519e00ba1ba313a5b55ad2a0423c10952 (patch)
treed48a1e26d758bdbc44cd17a374df24591bf47404 /drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom
parent554b36bffbfba7fc38d1b2b1848f5b88ed853baf (diff)
parent6bc7103c89bff2b53a159e03b74c8216c79bfef8 (diff)
downloadlinux-4485166519e00ba1ba313a5b55ad2a0423c10952.tar.bz2
Merge branch 'bpf-nfp-jmp-memcpy-improvements'
Jiong Wang says: ==================== Currently, compiler will lower memcpy function call in XDP/eBPF C program into a sequence of eBPF load/store pairs for some scenarios. Compiler is thinking this "inline" optimiation is beneficial as it could avoid function call and also increase code locality. However, Netronome NPU is not an tranditional load/store architecture that doing a sequence of individual load/store actions are not efficient. This patch set tries to identify the load/store sequences composed of load/store pairs that comes from memcpy lowering, then accelerates them through NPU's Command Push Pull (CPP) instruction. This patch set registered an new optimization pass before doing the actual JIT work, it traverse through eBPF IR, once found candidate sequence then record the memory copy source, destination and length information in the first load instruction starting the sequence and marks all remaining instructions in the sequence into skipable status. Later, when JITing the first load instructoin, optimal instructions will be generated using those record information. For this safety of this transformation: - jump into the middle of the sequence will cancel the optimization. - overlapped memory access will cancel the optimization. - the load destination register still contains the same value as before the transformation. ==================== Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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