Song Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 5:30 PM Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> wrote:
> >
> > Replace 'cmp reg, 0' with 'test reg, reg' for comparisons against
> > zero. Saves 1 byte of instruction encoding per occurrence. The flag
> > results of test 'reg, reg' are identical to 'cmp reg, 0' in all
> > cases except for AF which we don't use/care about. In terms of
> > macro-fusibility in combination with a subsequent conditional jump
> > instruction, both have the same properties for the jumps used in
> > the JIT translation. For example, same JITed Cilium program can
> > shrink a bit from e.g. 12,455 to 12,317 bytes as tests with 0 are
> > used quite frequently.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net>
> 
> Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubrav...@fb.com>

Bonus points for causing me to spend the morning remembering the
differences between cmd, and, or, and test.

Also wonder if at some point we should clean up the jit a bit and
add some defines/helpers for all the open coded opcodes and such.

Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastab...@gmail.com>

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