Re: Make use of pg_memory_is_all_zeros() in more places

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 03:03:34PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 02:18:33PM +0000, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> > While searching for memcmp() calls in "*stat*.c" files (due to [1]), it appeared
> > that we could $SUBJECT. Please find attached a patch doing so.
> 
> -            SockAddr    zero_clientaddr;
> -            memset(&zero_clientaddr, 0, sizeof(zero_clientaddr));
> -            if (memcmp(&(beentry->st_clientaddr), &zero_clientaddr,
> -                       sizeof(zero_clientaddr)) == 0)
> +            if (pg_memory_is_all_zeros(&(beentry->st_clientaddr),
> +                                       sizeof(beentry->st_clientaddr)))
> 
> It also means that you're removing these variables used only for the
> all-zero comparisons.  Makes sense to me.

Yeap and also given its size (136 bytes), it looks like that it could provide
some performance benefits too (see check_SockAddr_is_zeroes.c attached):

$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0
Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ gcc -O2 check_SockAddr_is_zeroes.c -o check_SockAddr_is_zeroes; ./check_SockAddr_is_zeroes
memcmp: done in 21460 nanoseconds
pg_memory_is_all_zeros: done in 1307 nanoseconds (16.4193 times faster than memcmp)

$ /usr/local/gcc-14.1.0/bin/gcc-14.1.0 -O2 check_SockAddr_is_zeroes.c -o check_SockAddr_is_zeroes; ./check_SockAddr_is_zeroes
memcmp: done in 21012 nanoseconds
pg_memory_is_all_zeros: done in 4039 nanoseconds (5.20228 times faster than memcmp)

That's not a hot path but still interesting to see.

Regards,

-- 
Bertrand Drouvot
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