...but without taking a profile, how do you know its *actually* slower?
Looking at assembly output can be misleading.
On Nov 30, 2015 11:53 PM, "'Davide Libenzi' via Akaros" <
[email protected]> wrote:

> For Open/NetBSD, it might make sense, as they run even is 13bit,
> nobody-heard-of, CPUs.
> We don't run on anything which is not GCC, *and* 64bit, so caring about
> Arduino being possibly slower on that code does not make much sense.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Dan Cross <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Ah; yeah, perhaps. But bear in mind that this code is meant to be
>> portable. 128-bit multiplication may be quite slow on RISC-V, for instance
>> (though I don't know).
>>
>> The OpenBSD people know what they're doing when it comes to this kind of
>> thing....
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:48 PM, 'Davide Libenzi' via Akaros <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> No, the MUL checks are in place explicitly to try to avoid every time
>>> into the DIV.
>>> I feel my hair growing back, thinking at the times that code made sense ☺
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Dan Cross <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't think that's an optimization; it's an attempt to avoid UB. In
>>>> that sense, it's explicitly an anti-optimization....
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:43 PM, 'Davide Libenzi' via Akaros <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Oh, I would not have made any comment, had I not seen the silly
>>>>> optimization in place. Likely 1993 era 😀
>>>>> No optimization in place, meant "we do not care at this point", which
>>>>> I agree in this case.
>>>>> But the code was suggesting "we do care", hence a much better way to
>>>>> do it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Dan Cross <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, bear in mind that this is right before we run the memory
>>>>>> allocator. Shaving a few cycles off here is kind of like chipping a 
>>>>>> pebble
>>>>>> off of an asteroid.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Dan Cross <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Numbers of it didn't happen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:49 PM, 'Davide Libenzi' via Akaros <
>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The MUL_NO_OVERFLOW thing makes little sense in the CPUs we are
>>>>>>>> targeting.
>>>>>>>> A couple of mis-predicted branches are more expensive than a DIV
>>>>>>>> (~20 cycles in today Intel).
>>>>>>>> Much faster:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> typedef unsigned __int128 uint128_t;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>      uint128_t n = (uint128_t) nmemb * (uint128_t) size;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     if (n > SIZE_MAX) foo();
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --------------------
>>>>>>>> typedef unsigned __int128 u128;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> static const unsigned long ulmax = ~0UL;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> unsigned long oc(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>     u128 m = (u128) a * (u128) b;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     if (m > ulmax)
>>>>>>>>         m = 0;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     return (unsigned long) m;
>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ----
>>>>>>>> oc:
>>>>>>>>     movq    %rdi, %rax
>>>>>>>>     mulq    %rsi
>>>>>>>>     movq    %rax, %r9
>>>>>>>>     xorl    %eax, %eax
>>>>>>>>     testq   %rdx, %rdx
>>>>>>>>     cmove   %r9, %rax
>>>>>>>>     ret
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Barret Rhoden <
>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> One thing to be careful of is that these functions can fail and
>>>>>>>>> return 0,
>>>>>>>>> regardless of your kmalloc flags.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>  kern/include/kmalloc.h   | 5 +++--
>>>>>>>>>  kern/src/kreallocarray.c | 9 +++++++++
>>>>>>>>>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/kern/include/kmalloc.h b/kern/include/kmalloc.h
>>>>>>>>> index 268cf2985ddb..26f23c1754c0 100644
>>>>>>>>> --- a/kern/include/kmalloc.h
>>>>>>>>> +++ b/kern/include/kmalloc.h
>>>>>>>>> @@ -16,8 +16,9 @@
>>>>>>>>>  #define KMALLOC_LARGEST KMALLOC_SMALLEST << NUM_KMALLOC_CACHES
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  void kmalloc_init(void);
>>>>>>>>> -void* kmalloc(size_t size, int flags);
>>>>>>>>> -void* kzmalloc(size_t size, int flags);
>>>>>>>>> +void *kmalloc(size_t size, int flags);
>>>>>>>>> +void *kmalloc_array(size_t nmemb, size_t size, int flags);
>>>>>>>>> +void *kzmalloc(size_t size, int flags);
>>>>>>>>>  void *kmalloc_align(size_t size, int flags, size_t align);
>>>>>>>>>  void *kzmalloc_align(size_t size, int flags, size_t align);
>>>>>>>>>  void *krealloc(void *buf, size_t size, int flags);
>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/kern/src/kreallocarray.c b/kern/src/kreallocarray.c
>>>>>>>>> index d099721e0406..505159917317 100644
>>>>>>>>> --- a/kern/src/kreallocarray.c
>>>>>>>>> +++ b/kern/src/kreallocarray.c
>>>>>>>>> @@ -34,3 +34,12 @@ void *kreallocarray(void *optr, size_t nmemb,
>>>>>>>>> size_t size, int flags)
>>>>>>>>>         }
>>>>>>>>>         return krealloc(optr, size * nmemb, flags);
>>>>>>>>>  }
>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>> +void *kmalloc_array(size_t nmemb, size_t size, int flags)
>>>>>>>>> +{
>>>>>>>>> +       if (((nmemb >= MUL_NO_OVERFLOW) || (size >=
>>>>>>>>> MUL_NO_OVERFLOW)) &&
>>>>>>>>> +           (nmemb > 0) && ((SIZE_MAX / nmemb) < size)) {
>>>>>>>>> +               return NULL;
>>>>>>>>> +       }
>>>>>>>>> +       return kmalloc(size * nmemb, flags);
>>>>>>>>> +}
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