State of a register doesn't matter if it wasn't read in reaching an exit;
a write screens off all reads downstream of it from all explored_states
upstream of it.
This allows us to prune many more branches; here are some processed insn
counts for some Cilium programs:
Program before after
bpf_lb_opt_-DLB_L3.o 6515 3361
bpf_lb_opt_-DLB_L4.o 8976 5176
bpf_lb_opt_-DUNKNOWN.o 2960 1137
bpf_lxc_opt_-DDROP_ALL.o 95412 48537
bpf_lxc_opt_-DUNKNOWN.o 141706 78718
bpf_netdev.o 24251 17995
bpf_overlay.o 10999 9385
The runtime is also improved; here are 'time' results in ms:
Program before after
bpf_lb_opt_-DLB_L3.o 24 6
bpf_lb_opt_-DLB_L4.o 26 11
bpf_lb_opt_-DUNKNOWN.o 11 2
bpf_lxc_opt_-DDROP_ALL.o 1288 139
bpf_lxc_opt_-DUNKNOWN.o 1768 234
bpf_netdev.o 62 31
bpf_overlay.o 15 13
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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