Commit 48b4fc66 authored by Jisheng Zhang's avatar Jisheng Zhang Committed by Palmer Dabbelt

riscv: select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER

Currently, riscv linux requires at least IMA, so all platforms have a
multiplier. And I assume the 'mul' efficiency is comparable or better
than a sequence of five or so register-dependent arithmetic
instructions. Select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER to get slightly nicer
codegen. Refer to commit f9b41929 ("[PATCH] bitops: hweight()
speedup") for more details.

In a simple benchmark test calling hweight64() in a loop, it got:
about 14% performance improvement on JH7110, tested on Milkv Mars.

about 23% performance improvement on TH1520 and SG2042, tested on
Sipeed LPI4A and SG2042 platform.

a slight performance drop on CV1800B, tested on milkv duo. Among all
riscv platforms in my hands, this is the only one which sees a slight
performance drop. It means the 'mul' isn't quick enough. However, the
situation exists on x86 too, for example, P4 doesn't have fast
integer multiplies as said in the above commit, x86 also selects
ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER. So let's select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
which can benefit almost riscv platforms.

Samuel also provided some performance numbers:
On Unmatched: 20% speedup for __sw_hweight32 and 30% speedup for
__sw_hweight64.
On D1: 8% speedup for __sw_hweight32 and 8% slowdown for
__sw_hweight64.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSamuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Tested-by: default avatarSamuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325105823.1483-1-jszhang@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
parent 7845f522
......@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ config RISCV
select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL if MMU
select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
......
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