Nandakumar Edamana 1df7dad4d5 bpf: Improve the general precision of tnum_mul ...

Drop the value-mask decomposition technique and adopt straightforward
long-multiplication with a twist: when LSB(a) is uncertain, find the
two partial products (for LSB(a) = known 0 and LSB(a) = known 1) and
take a union.

Experiment shows that applying this technique in long multiplication
improves the precision in a significant number of cases (at the cost
of losing precision in a relatively lower number of cases).

Signed-off-by: Nandakumar Edamana <nandakumar@nandakumar.co.in>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Harishankar Vishwanathan <harishankar.vishwanathan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Harishankar Vishwanathan <harishankar.vishwanathan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250826034524.2159515-1-nandakumar@nandakumar.co.in

2025-08-27 15:00:26 -07:00

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