forked from Minki/linux
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There is a slightly faster way (in terms of the number of instructions
being used) to calculate the position of a middle element, preserving
integer overflow safeness.
./scripts/bloat-o-meter lib/bsearch.o.old lib/bsearch.o.new
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-24 (-24)
function old new delta
bsearch 122 98 -24
TEST
INT array of size 100001, elements [0..100000]. gcc 7.1, Os, x86_64.
a) bsearch() of existing key "100001 - 2":
BASE
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$ perf stat ./a.out
Performance counter stats for './a.out':
619.445196 task-clock:u (msec) # 0.999 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches:u # 0.000 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations:u # 0.000 K/sec
133 page-faults:u # 0.215 K/sec
1,949,517,279 cycles:u # 3.147 GHz (83.06%)
181,017,938 stalled-cycles-frontend:u # 9.29% frontend cycles idle (83.05%)
82,959,265 stalled-cycles-backend:u # 4.26% backend cycles idle (67.02%)
4,355,706,383 instructions:u # 2.23 insn per cycle
# 0.04 stalled cycles per insn (83.54%)
1,051,539,242 branches:u # 1697.550 M/sec (83.54%)
15,263,381 branch-misses:u # 1.45% of all branches (83.43%)
0.620082548 seconds time elapsed
PATCHED
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$ perf stat ./a.out
Performance counter stats for './a.out':
475.097316 task-clock:u (msec) # 0.999 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches:u # 0.000 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations:u # 0.000 K/sec
135 page-faults:u # 0.284 K/sec
1,487,467,717 cycles:u # 3.131 GHz (82.95%)
186,537,162 stalled-cycles-frontend:u # 12.54% frontend cycles idle (82.93%)
28,797,869 stalled-cycles-backend:u # 1.94% backend cycles idle (67.10%)
3,807,564,203 instructions:u # 2.56 insn per cycle
# 0.05 stalled cycles per insn (83.57%)
1,049,344,291 branches:u # 2208.693 M/sec (83.60%)
5,485 branch-misses:u # 0.00% of all branches (83.58%)
0.475760235 seconds time elapsed
b) bsearch() of un-existing key "100001 + 2":
BASE
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$ perf stat ./a.out
Performance counter stats for './a.out':
499.244480 task-clock:u (msec) # 0.999 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches:u # 0.000 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations:u # 0.000 K/sec
132 page-faults:u # 0.264 K/sec
1,571,194,855 cycles:u # 3.147 GHz (83.18%)
13,450,980 stalled-cycles-frontend:u # 0.86% frontend cycles idle (83.18%)
21,256,072 stalled-cycles-backend:u # 1.35% backend cycles idle (66.78%)
4,171,197,909 instructions:u # 2.65 insn per cycle
# 0.01 stalled cycles per insn (83.68%)
1,009,175,281 branches:u # 2021.405 M/sec (83.79%)
3,122 branch-misses:u # 0.00% of all branches (83.37%)
0.499871144 seconds time elapsed
PATCHED
=======
$ perf stat ./a.out
Performance counter stats for './a.out':
399.023499 task-clock:u (msec) # 0.998 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches:u # 0.000 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations:u # 0.000 K/sec
134 page-faults:u # 0.336 K/sec
1,245,793,991 cycles:u # 3.122 GHz (83.39%)
11,529,273 stalled-cycles-frontend:u # 0.93% frontend cycles idle (83.46%)
12,116,311 stalled-cycles-backend:u # 0.97% backend cycles idle (66.92%)
3,679,710,005 instructions:u # 2.95 insn per cycle
# 0.00 stalled cycles per insn (83.47%)
1,009,792,625 branches:u # 2530.660 M/sec (83.46%)
2,590 branch-misses:u # 0.00% of all branches (83.12%)
0.399733539 seconds time elapsed
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170607150457.5905-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
56 lines
1.5 KiB
C
56 lines
1.5 KiB
C
/*
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* A generic implementation of binary search for the Linux kernel
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*
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* Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Ksplice, Inc.
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* Author: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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* published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2.
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*/
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#include <linux/export.h>
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#include <linux/bsearch.h>
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/*
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* bsearch - binary search an array of elements
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* @key: pointer to item being searched for
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* @base: pointer to first element to search
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* @num: number of elements
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* @size: size of each element
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* @cmp: pointer to comparison function
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*
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* This function does a binary search on the given array. The
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* contents of the array should already be in ascending sorted order
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* under the provided comparison function.
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*
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* Note that the key need not have the same type as the elements in
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* the array, e.g. key could be a string and the comparison function
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* could compare the string with the struct's name field. However, if
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* the key and elements in the array are of the same type, you can use
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* the same comparison function for both sort() and bsearch().
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*/
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void *bsearch(const void *key, const void *base, size_t num, size_t size,
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int (*cmp)(const void *key, const void *elt))
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{
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const char *pivot;
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int result;
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while (num > 0) {
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pivot = base + (num >> 1) * size;
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result = cmp(key, pivot);
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if (result == 0)
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return (void *)pivot;
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if (result > 0) {
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base = pivot + size;
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num--;
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}
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num >>= 1;
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}
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return NULL;
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}
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EXPORT_SYMBOL(bsearch);
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