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SubjectRe: strncpy optimalisation? (lib/string.c)
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> > now I wonder isn't this ineffecient when strlen(src) < count? It would
> > then, if I'm correct, iterate count-strlen(src) times doing useless
> > increment/decrement. And since there are aprox. 580 instances in the
> > 2.6.18.2 source, maybe some efficency can be won here.
> > Wouldn't it be better to do:
> > if ((*tmp = *src) == 0x00)
> > break;
> > So that would be:
> > --- lib/string.c 2006-11-04 02:33:58.000000000 +0100
> > +++ string-new.c 2006-12-10 21:50:05.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -97,8 +97,8 @@
> > char *tmp = dest;
> >
> > while (count) {
> > - if ((*tmp = *src) != 0)
> > - src++;
> > + if ((*tmp = *src) == 0x00)
> > + break;
> > tmp++;
> > count--;
> > }
> While your code is faster, it does not do exactly the same.
> Original code completely pads the destination with zeroes,
> while yours only adds the last zero. Your code does what
> strncpy() is said to do, but maybe there's a particular
> reason for it to behave differently in the kernel (helping
> during debugging, or filling specific structs).
> Just out of curiosity, have you tried to do a general
> benchmark to check if original code eats much CPU ?

My patch was incorrect; it would only repeatingly copy the first
character from the source.
This one (tested in test-code seperate from kernel) works:
diff -uNrBbd lib/string.c string-new.c
--- lib/string.c 2006-11-04 02:33:58.000000000 +0100
+++ string-new.c 2006-12-10 22:34:39.000000000 +0100
@@ -97,9 +97,10 @@
char *tmp = dest;

while (count) {
- if ((*tmp = *src) != 0)
- src++;
+ if (unlikely((*tmp = *src) == 0x00))
+ break;
tmp++;
+ src++;
count--;
}
return dest;
The improvement in speed depends on the size of the source and
destination. Maybe i did something wrong but it seems that in all cases
the new version is faster.

Test can be found here:
http://www.vanheusden.com/misc/kernel-strncpy-opt-test.c


Signed-off by: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>

Folkert van Heusden

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