Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc32: optimise csum_partial() loop

[leroy christophe]

Le 17/08/2015 12:56, leroy christophe a Ãcrit :
> Le 07/08/2015 01:25, Segher Boessenkool a Ãcrit :
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 05:45:45PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > > If this makes performance non-negligibly worse on other 32-bit 
> > > chips, and is
> > > an important improvement on 8xx, then we can use an ifdef since 8xx 
> > > already
> > > requires its own kernel build.  I'd prefer to see a benchmark 
> > > showing that it
> > > actually does make things worse on those chips, though.
> > And I'd like to see a benchmark that shows it *does not* hurt 
> > performance
> > on most chips, and does improve things on 8xx, and by how much. But it
> > isn't *me* who has to show that, it is not my patch.
> Ok, following this discussion I made some additional measurement and 
> it looks like:
> * There is almost no change on the 885
> * There is a non negligeable degradation on the 8323 (19.5 tb ticks 
> instead of 15.3)
>
> Thanks for pointing this out, I think my patch is therefore not good.
Oops, I was talking about my other past, the one that was to optimise 
ip_csum_fast.
I still have to measure csum_partial

Christophe
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