Re: [PATCH] small update for strlen, strnlen, use less cpu instructions

[Mihai DonÈu]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 04:40:55 -0500 Orestes Leal Rodriguez wrote:
> very small update to strlen and strnlen that now use less cpu 
> instructions by using a counter to avoid the memory addresses 
> substraction to find the length of the string.

Nice. :-)

 Performance counter stats for './strnlen-new':

          3.602591      task-clock (msec)         #    0.836 CPUs utilized          
                 4      context-switches          #    0.001 M/sec                  
                 2      cpu-migrations            #    0.555 K/sec                  
                48      page-faults               #    0.013 M/sec                  
         9,607,307      cycles                    #    2.667 GHz                    
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-frontend  
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend   
        23,612,424      instructions              #    2.46  insns per cycle        
         9,121,754      branches                  # 2531.998 M/sec                  
             5,409      branch-misses             #    0.06% of all branches        

       0.004311477 seconds time elapsed


 Performance counter stats for './strnlen-old':

          3.181354      task-clock (msec)         #    0.930 CPUs utilized          
                 1      context-switches          #    0.314 K/sec                  
                 1      cpu-migrations            #    0.314 K/sec                  
                47      page-faults               #    0.015 M/sec                  
         8,558,129      cycles                    #    2.690 GHz                    
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-frontend  
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend   
        23,577,237      instructions              #    2.75  insns per cycle        
         9,114,760      branches                  # 2865.057 M/sec                  
             4,298      branch-misses             #    0.05% of all branches        

       0.003419085 seconds time elapsed

However, you will need to create a proper patch:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

-- 
Mihai DonÈu
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