powerpc: strstr optimization
authorRajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 24 Jun 2015 06:08:21 +0000 (02:08 -0400)
committerTulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:43:51 +0000 (13:43 -0300)
commitb42f8cad52ebfbfd43ebf6e42e606b489ffbd466
treeec8f4655557211a79429140e55b12d100a2745d7
parent6b96d6de8ccd1c04f172a43d3785960e0a76be3f
powerpc: strstr optimization

This patch optimizes strstr function for power >= 7 systems.  Performance
gain is obtained using aligned memory access and usage of cmpb
instruction for quicker comparison.  The average improvement of this
optimization is ~40%.  Tested on ppc64 and ppc64le.

2015-07-16  Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan  <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile: Add strstr().
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strstr.S: New File.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr-power7.S: New File.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr-ppc64.c: New File.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr.c: New File.
ChangeLog
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr-power7.S [new file with mode: 0644]
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr-ppc64.c [new file with mode: 0644]
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr.c [new file with mode: 0644]
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strstr.S [new file with mode: 0644]