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From: Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <[email protected]>
To: Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>
Cc: "Willy Tarreau" <[email protected]>,
	"Thomas Weißschuh" <[email protected]>,
	"Nicholas Rosenberg" <[email protected]>,
	"Michael William Jonathan" <[email protected]>,
	"GNU/Weeb Mailing List" <[email protected]>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/5] tools/nolibc: x86-64: Use `rep stosb` for `memset()`
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 21:24:45 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOG64qNGdPjXHTvrpYxjizOYvMRaB9_2t2raw6DJ3kK852KUHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 8:57 PM Ammar Faizi wrote:
>   00000000000010b1 <memset>:
>     10b1: 48 89 f0              mov    %rsi,%rax
>     10b4: 48 89 d1              mov    %rdx,%rcx
>     10b7: 48 89 fa              mov    %rdi,%rdx
>     10ba: f3 aa                 rep stos %al,%es:(%rdi)
>     10bc: 48 89 d0              mov    %rdx,%rax
>     10bf: c3                    ret

Just a small idea to shrink this more, "mov %rdi, %rdx" and "mov %rdx,
%rax" can be replaced with "push %rdi" and "pop %rax" (they are just a
byte). So we can save 4 bytes more.

0000000000001500 <memset>:
    1500: 48 89 f0     mov    %rsi,%rax
    1503: 48 89 d1     mov    %rdx,%rcx
    1506: 57           push   %rdi
    1507: f3 aa        rep stos %al,%es:(%rdi)
    1509: 58           pop    %rax
    150a: c3           ret

But I know you don't like it because it costs extra memory access.

-- Viro

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-30 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-30 13:57 [RFC PATCH v1 0/5] nolibc x86-64 string functions Ammar Faizi
2023-08-30 13:57 ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/5] tools/nolibc: x86-64: Use `rep movsb` for `memcpy()` and `memmove()` Ammar Faizi
2023-08-30 13:57 ` [RFC PATCH v1 2/5] tools/nolibc: x86-64: Use `rep stosb` for `memset()` Ammar Faizi
2023-08-30 14:08   ` Alviro Iskandar Setiawan
2023-08-30 14:13     ` Ammar Faizi
2023-08-30 14:24   ` Alviro Iskandar Setiawan [this message]
2023-08-30 15:09     ` Ammar Faizi
2023-08-30 15:23       ` Willy Tarreau
2023-08-30 15:44         ` Ammar Faizi
2023-08-30 15:51           ` Willy Tarreau
2023-08-30 16:08             ` Ammar Faizi
2023-08-30 16:11               ` Alviro Iskandar Setiawan
2023-08-30 13:57 ` [RFC PATCH v1 3/5] tools/nolibc: x86-64: Use `rep cmpsb` for `memcmp()` Ammar Faizi
2023-08-30 21:26   ` Willy Tarreau
2023-09-01  3:24     ` Ammar Faizi
2023-09-01  3:35       ` Willy Tarreau
2023-09-01  7:27         ` Ammar Faizi
2023-09-04  8:26     ` David Laight
2023-08-30 13:57 ` [RFC PATCH v1 4/5] tools/nolibc: string: Remove the `_nolibc_memcpy_down()` function Ammar Faizi
2023-08-30 21:27   ` Willy Tarreau
2023-08-30 13:57 ` [RFC PATCH v1 5/5] tools/nolibc: string: Remove the `_nolibc_memcpy_up()` function Ammar Faizi
2023-08-30 21:32 ` [RFC PATCH v1 0/5] nolibc x86-64 string functions Willy Tarreau
2023-09-01 11:34 ` David Laight
2023-09-01 11:46   ` Willy Tarreau
2023-09-01 13:06     ` Ammar Faizi
2023-09-01 14:23       ` David Laight
2023-09-01 14:41         ` Ammar Faizi
2023-09-01 14:54           ` David Laight
2023-09-01 15:20             ` Ammar Faizi

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