Re: [PATCH] lib/bch.c: increase bitrev single conversion length

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2024 at 08:52, John Sanpe <sanpeqf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Optimized the performance of the three functions (load_ecc8 store_ecc8
> and bch_encode) using a larger calculation length.

Honestly, with any optimization, you should quote performance numbers.

Also, it's questionable how meaningful this is, considering that most
architectures dop the bit swap with a byte lookup, and the 32-bit bit
swap is just four byte lookups. For all we know, this only makes
things worse.

Finally, if you actually want to do things in bigger chunks, that
->swap_bits conditional should probably be moved out of the loops, not
just have that questionable 8->32 bit expansion.

            Linus