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cxgb3: Fix sparse warning and micro-optimize is_pure_response()

PATCH Applied Roland Dreier 2 participants 2 messages Nov 29, 2008

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The function is_pure_response() does "ntohl(var) & const" and then essentially just tests whether the result is 0 or not; this can be done more efficiently by computing "var & htonl(const)" instead and doing the byte swap at compile time instead of run time.

This change slightly shrinks the compiled code; eg on x86-64 we save a couple of bswapl instructions:

add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-8 (-8)

function                                     old     new   delta
t3_sge_intr_msix_napi                        544     536      -8

and this also has the pleasant side effect of fixing a sparse warning:

drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c:2313:15: warning: restricted degrades to integer

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 drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c +1 -1
index c6480be..4181373 100644
@@ -2308,7 +2308,7 @@ next_fl:
 
 static inline int is_pure_response(const struct rsp_desc *r)
 {
-	u32 n = ntohl(r->flags) & (F_RSPD_ASYNC_NOTIF | F_RSPD_IMM_DATA_VALID);
+	__be32 n = r->flags & htonl(F_RSPD_ASYNC_NOTIF | F_RSPD_IMM_DATA_VALID);
 
 	return (n | r->len_cq) == 0;
 }
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From: Roland Dreier <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:47:03 -0800

Quoted 9 lines

The function is_pure_response() does "ntohl(var) & const" and then essentially just tests whether the result is 0 or not; this can be done more efficiently by computing "var & htonl(const)" instead and doing the byte swap at compile time instead of run time.

This change slightly shrinks the compiled code; eg on x86-64 we save a couple of bswapl instructions:

add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-8 (-8)

Quoted 8 lines
function                                     old     new   delta
t3_sge_intr_msix_napi                        544     536      -8

and this also has the pleasant side effect of fixing a sparse warning:

drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c:2313:15: warning: restricted degrades to integer

Applied, thanks Roland.