254K prefixes with skewed distribution means early exits dominate, and no SIMD throughput advantage survives a branch that terminates at depth 3. The interesting edge case is deaggregation events where prefix counts spike transiently and the rebuild-and-swap FIB has to absorb a table that's temporarily 2x normal size

The obvious question, I guess: How much faster are you than whatever is in the Linux kernel's FIB? (Although I assume they need RCU overhead and such. I have no idea what it all looks like internally.)

I wonder if this would port nicely over to rustybgp.

It actually does detect it using ifdef [0] but uses cmake stuff to avoid passing "-mavx512" kind of flags to the compiler [1].

[0] https://github.com/esutcu/planb-lpm/blob/748d19d5fbd945cefa3...

[1] https://github.com/esutcu/planb-lpm/blob/748d19d5fbd945cefa3...

The lines

    __m512i vx  = _mm512_set1_epi64(static_cast<long long>(x));
    __m512i vk  = _mm512_load_si512(reinterpret_cast<const __m512i*>(base));
    __mmask8 m  = _mm512_cmp_epu64_mask(vx, vk, _MM_CMPINT_GE);
    return static_cast<std::uint32_t>(__builtin_popcount(m));

would be replaced with:

    return __riscv_vcpop(__riscv_vmsgeu(__riscv_vle64_v_u64m1(base, FANOUT), x, FANOUT), FANOUT);

and you set FANOUT to __riscv_vsetvlmax_e32m1() at runtime.

Alternatively, if you don't want a dynamic FANOUT you keep the FANOUT=8 (or another constant) and do a stripmining loop

    size_t cnt = 0;
    for (size_t vl, n = 8; n > 0; n -= vl, base += vl) {
     vl = __riscv_vsetvl_e64m1(n);
     cnt += __riscv_vcpop(__riscv_vmsgeu(__riscv_vle64_v_u64m1(base, vl), x, vl), vl);
    }
    return cnt;

This will take FANOUT/VLEN iterations and the branches will be essentially almost predicted.

If you know FANOUT is always 8 and you'll never want to changes it, you could alternatively use select the optimal LMUL:

    size_t vl = __riscv_vsetvlmax_e32m1();
    if (vl == 2) return __riscv_vcpop(__riscv_vmsgeu(__riscv_vle64_v_u64m4(base, 8), x, 8), 8);
    if (vl == 4) return __riscv_vcpop(__riscv_vmsge(u__riscv_vle64_v_u64m2(base, 8), x, 8), 8);
    return __riscv_vcpop(__riscv_vmsgeu(__riscv_vle64_v_u64m1(base, 8), x, 8), 8);

Why? It is 500 lines of pretty basic code. You can port it if you don't like C++ to any language, assuming you understand what it is.

It does look a bit AI generated though