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authorAdhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-12-23 05:59:44 -0600
committerAdhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-01-13 11:28:30 -0500
commit96d6fd6c4060d739abb1822e7ad633af749532b2 (patch)
tree3958c551f6b4e375b62cf08e3e30fd472a94acf7 /sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcpy.c
parent0f9e585480edcdf1e30dc3d79e24b84aeee516fa (diff)
powerpc: Optimized st{r,p}cpy for POWER8/PPC64
This patch adds an optimized POWER8 strcpy using unaligned accesses. For strings up to 16 bytes the implementation first calculate the string size, like strlen, and issues a memcpy. For larger strings, source is first aligned to 16 bytes and then tested over a loop that reads 16 bytes am combine the cmpb results for speedup. Special case is added for page cross reads. It shows 30%-60% improvement over the optimized POWER7 one that uses only aligned accesses.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcpy.c')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcpy.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcpy.c b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcpy.c
index cd47bf6713..fd0afd408a 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcpy.c
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcpy.c
@@ -23,9 +23,12 @@
extern __typeof (strcpy) __strcpy_ppc attribute_hidden;
extern __typeof (strcpy) __strcpy_power7 attribute_hidden;
+extern __typeof (strcpy) __strcpy_power8 attribute_hidden;
libc_ifunc (strcpy,
- (hwcap & PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX)
- ? __strcpy_power7
+ (hwcap2 & PPC_FEATURE2_ARCH_2_07)
+ ? __strcpy_power8 :
+ (hwcap & PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX)
+ ? __strcpy_power7
: __strcpy_ppc);
#endif