Hi, Jiawei > -----Original Message----- > From: Jiawei Zhu <17826875...@163.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 18:22 > To: Slava Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com>; dev@dpdk.org > Cc: zhujiawe...@huawei.com; Matan Azrad <ma...@nvidia.com>; Shahaf > Shuler <shah...@nvidia.com> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: add Rx checksum offload flag return bad > > Hi，Slava > > Thanks for your explain，the multiplications and divisions are in the > TRANSPOSE，not in the rte_be_to_cpu_16.
[SO] Yes, TRANSPOSE is the macro with mul and div operators. But, these ones are translated by compiler to the simple shifts (due to operands are power of 2). The only place where TRANSPOSE is used is the rxq_cq_to_ol_flags() routine. I've compiled this one and provided the assembly listing - please see one in my previous reply. It illustrates how TRASPOSE was compiled to and presents the x86 code - we see only shifts: 43 0047 48C1EA02 shrq $2,%rdx 44 004b 48C1E802 shrq $2,%rax No any mul/div, exactly as we expected. > So I think use if-else directly could improves the performance. [SO] The if/else construction is usually compiled to conditional jumps, the branch prediction in CPU over the various ingress traffic patterns (we are analyzing the flags of the received packets) might not work well and we’ll get performance penalty. Hence, it seems the best practice is not to have the conditional jumps at all. The existing code follows this approach as we can see from the assembly listing - there is no conditional jumps. With best regards, Slava PS. Just removed embarrassing details from the listing - this is merely the resulting code of rxq_cq_to_ol_flags(). I removed static and made this one non-inline to see the isolated piece of code: rxq_cq_to_ol_flags: movzwl 28(%rdi),%edx // endianness conversion optimized out at all movl %edx,%eax andw $512,%dx andw $1024,%ax movzwl %dx,%edx movzwl %ax,%eax shrq $2,%rdx shrq $2,%rax orl %edx,%eax ret PPS. As we can see - the shift values are the same for both flags, so there might be some area to optimize (we could have only one shift and only one masking with AND)
