[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] bitops: unroll while loop in find_next_bit().

[Peter Lieven]

this patch adopts the loop unrolling idea of bitmap_is_zero() to
speed up the skipping of large areas with zeros in find_next_bit().

this routine is extensively used to find dirty pages in
live migration.

testing only the find_next_bit performance on a zeroed bitfield
the loop onrolling decreased executing time by approx. 50% on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <address@hidden>
---
 util/bitops.c |   18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/util/bitops.c b/util/bitops.c
index e72237a..227c38b 100644
--- a/util/bitops.c
+++ b/util/bitops.c
@@ -42,7 +42,23 @@ unsigned long find_next_bit(const unsigned long *addr, 
unsigned long size,
         size -= BITS_PER_LONG;
         result += BITS_PER_LONG;
     }
-    while (size & ~(BITS_PER_LONG-1)) {
+    while (size >= 4*BITS_PER_LONG) {
+        unsigned long d1, d2, d3;
+        tmp = *p;
+        d1 = *(p+1);
+        d2 = *(p+2);
+        d3 = *(p+3);
+        if (tmp) {
+            goto found_middle;
+        }
+        if (d1 | d2 | d3) {
+            break;
+        }
+        p += 4;
+        result += 4*BITS_PER_LONG;
+        size -= 4*BITS_PER_LONG;
+    }
+    while (size >= BITS_PER_LONG) {
         if ((tmp = *(p++))) {
             goto found_middle;
         }
--
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