Re: [PATCH 1/2] zstd: pass pointer rathen than structure to functions

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2019-05-10 at 11:41 +0530, Maninder Singh wrote:
> currently params structure is passed in all functions, which increases
> stack usage in all the function and lead to stack overflow on target like
> ARM with kernel stack size of 8 KB so better to pass pointer.
[]
> diff --git a/lib/zstd/compress.c b/lib/zstd/compress.c
[]
> @@ -206,18 +206,18 @@ ZSTD_compressionParameters ZSTD_adjustCParams(ZSTD_compressionParameters cPar, u
>  	return cPar;
>  }
>  
> -static U32 ZSTD_equivalentParams(ZSTD_parameters param1, ZSTD_parameters param2)
> +static U32 ZSTD_equivalentParams(const ZSTD_parameters *param1, const ZSTD_parameters *param2)
>  {
> -	return (param1.cParams.hashLog == param2.cParams.hashLog) & (param1.cParams.chainLog == param2.cParams.chainLog) &
> -	       (param1.cParams.strategy == param2.cParams.strategy) & ((param1.cParams.searchLength == 3) == (param2.cParams.searchLength == 3));
> +	return (param1->cParams.hashLog == param2->cParams.hashLog) & (param1->cParams.chainLog == param2->cParams.chainLog) &
> +	       (param1->cParams.strategy == param2->cParams.strategy) & ((param1->cParams.searchLength == 3) == (param2->cParams.searchLength == 3));
>  }

trivia:

Using & instead of && makes this somewhat difficult to read.
It's hard to believe this is a performance optimization.

It might be better as

	return param1->cParams.hashLog == param2->cParams.hashLog &&
	       param1->cParams.chainLog == param2->cParams.chainLog &&
	       param1->cParams.strategy == param2->cParams.strategy &&
	       param1->cParams.searchLength == 3 &&
	       param1->cParams.searchLength == param2->cParams.searchLength;