fast_hash: avoid indirect function calls

By default the arch_fast_hash hashing function pointers are initialized
to jhash(2). If during boot-up a CPU with SSE4.2 is detected they get
updated to the CRC32 ones. This dispatching scheme incurs a function
pointer lookup and indirect call for every hashing operation.

rhashtable as a user of arch_fast_hash e.g. stores pointers to hashing
functions in its structure, too, causing two indirect branches per
hashing operation.

Using alternative_call we can get away with one of those indirect branches.

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 40 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index 7512dc978f1..04e53dd1607 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ obj-y += bcd.o div64.o sort.o parser.o halfmd4.o debug_locks.o random32.o \
 	 bust_spinlocks.o hexdump.o kasprintf.o bitmap.o scatterlist.o \
 	 gcd.o lcm.o list_sort.o uuid.o flex_array.o iovec.o clz_ctz.o \
 	 bsearch.o find_last_bit.o find_next_bit.o llist.o memweight.o kfifo.o \
-	 percpu-refcount.o percpu_ida.o hash.o rhashtable.o
+	 percpu-refcount.o percpu_ida.o rhashtable.o
 obj-y += string_helpers.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_STRING_HELPERS) += test-string_helpers.o
 obj-y += kstrtox.o
diff --git a/lib/hash.c b/lib/hash.c
deleted file mode 100644
index fea973f4bd5..00000000000
--- a/lib/hash.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-/* General purpose hashing library
- *
- * That's a start of a kernel hashing library, which can be extended
- * with further algorithms in future. arch_fast_hash{2,}() will
- * eventually resolve to an architecture optimized implementation.
- *
- * Copyright 2013 Francesco Fusco <ffusco@redhat.com>
- * Copyright 2013 Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
- * Copyright 2013 Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>
- * Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0 (GPLv2)
- */
-
-#include <linux/jhash.h>
-#include <linux/hash.h>
-#include <linux/cache.h>
-
-static struct fast_hash_ops arch_hash_ops __read_mostly = {
-	.hash  = jhash,
-	.hash2 = jhash2,
-};
-
-u32 arch_fast_hash(const void *data, u32 len, u32 seed)
-{
-	return arch_hash_ops.hash(data, len, seed);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(arch_fast_hash);
-
-u32 arch_fast_hash2(const u32 *data, u32 len, u32 seed)
-{
-	return arch_hash_ops.hash2(data, len, seed);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(arch_fast_hash2);
-
-static int __init hashlib_init(void)
-{
-	setup_arch_fast_hash(&arch_hash_ops);
-	return 0;
-}
-early_initcall(hashlib_init);