[PATCH v5 1/4] asm-generic: Improve csum_fold

From: Charlie Jenkins
Date: Thu Sep 14 2023 - 23:49:51 EST


This csum_fold implementation introduced into arch/arc by Vineet Gupta
is better than the default implementation on at least arc, x86, arm, and
riscv. Using GCC trunk and compiling non-inlined version, this
implementation has 41.6667%, 25%, 16.6667% fewer instructions on
riscv64, x86-64, and arm64 respectively with -O3 optimization.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/asm-generic/checksum.h | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/checksum.h b/include/asm-generic/checksum.h
index 43e18db89c14..adab9ac4312c 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/checksum.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/checksum.h
@@ -30,10 +30,7 @@ extern __sum16 ip_fast_csum(const void *iph, unsigned int ihl);
*/
static inline __sum16 csum_fold(__wsum csum)
{
- u32 sum = (__force u32)csum;
- sum = (sum & 0xffff) + (sum >> 16);
- sum = (sum & 0xffff) + (sum >> 16);
- return (__force __sum16)~sum;
+ return (__force __sum16)((~csum - ror32(csum, 16)) >> 16);
}
#endif


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