Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv4 4/9] bitops: use vector algorithm to optimize find_next_bit()

[Orit Wasserman]

On 03/22/2013 02:46 PM, Peter Lieven wrote:
> this patch adds the usage of buffer_find_nonzero_offset()
> to skip large areas of zeroes.
> 
> compared to loop unrolling presented in an earlier
> patch this adds another 50% performance benefit for
> skipping large areas of zeroes. loop unrolling alone
> added close to 100% speedup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <p...@kamp.de>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  util/bitops.c |   24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/util/bitops.c b/util/bitops.c
> index e72237a..9bb61ff 100644
> --- a/util/bitops.c
> +++ b/util/bitops.c
> @@ -42,10 +42,28 @@ unsigned long find_next_bit(const unsigned long *addr, 
> unsigned long size,
>          size -= BITS_PER_LONG;
>          result += BITS_PER_LONG;
>      }
> -    while (size & ~(BITS_PER_LONG-1)) {
> -        if ((tmp = *(p++))) {
> -            goto found_middle;
> +    while (size >= BITS_PER_LONG) {
> +        tmp = *p;
> +        if (tmp) {
> +             goto found_middle;
> +        }
> +        if (can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset(p, size / BITS_PER_BYTE)) {
> +            size_t tmp2 =
> +                buffer_find_nonzero_offset(p, size / BITS_PER_BYTE);
> +            result += tmp2 * BITS_PER_BYTE;
> +            size -= tmp2 * BITS_PER_BYTE;
> +            p += tmp2 / sizeof(unsigned long);
> +            if (!size) {
> +                return result;
> +            }
> +            if (tmp2) {
> +                tmp = *p;
> +                if (tmp) {
> +                    goto found_middle;
> +                }
> +            }
>          }
> +        p++;
>          result += BITS_PER_LONG;
>          size -= BITS_PER_LONG;
>      }
> 
Reviewed-by: Orit Wasserman <owass...@redhat.com>