The generic x >> s gives the following result:
18: 35 25 ff e0 addic. r9,r5,-32
1c: 41 80 00 10 blt 2c <shift+0x14>
20: 7c 64 4c 30 srw r4,r3,r9
24: 38 60 00 00 li r3,0
...
2c: 54 69 08 3c rlwinm r9,r3,1,0,30
30: 21 45 00 1f subfic r10,r5,31
34: 7c 84 2c 30 srw r4,r4,r5
38: 7d 29 50 30 slw r9,r9,r10
3c: 7c 63 2c 30 srw r3,r3,r5
40: 7d 24 23 78 or r4,r9,r4
In our case the shift is always < 32. In addition, the upper 32 bits
of the result are likely nul. Lets GCC know it, it also optimises the
following calculations.
With the patch, we get:
0: 21 25 00 20 subfic r9,r5,32
4: 7c 69 48 30 slw r9,r3,r9
8: 7c 84 2c 30 srw r4,r4,r5
c: 7d 24 23 78 or r4,r9,r4
10: 7c 63 2c 30 srw r3,r3,r5
Performance before the patch:
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 1033 nsec/call
After the patch:
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 941 nsec/call
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
index 74b6eef8fbe9..716a137ab166 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
@@ -95,6 +95,23 @@ static __always_inline u64 vdso_calc_delta(u64 cycles, u64
last, u64 mask, u32 m
}
#define vdso_calc_delta vdso_calc_delta
+#ifndef __powerpc64__
+static __always_inline u64 vdso_shift_ns(u64 ns, unsigned long shift)
+{
+ u32 hi = ns >> 32;
+ u32 lo = ns;
+
+ lo = (lo >> shift) | (hi << (32 - shift));
+ hi >>= shift;
+
+ if (likely(hi == 0))
+ return lo;
+
+ return ((u64)hi << 32) | lo;
+}
+#define vdso_shift_ns vdso_shift_ns
+#endif
+
#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif /* __ASM_VDSO_GETTIMEOFDAY_H */
--
2.13.3
