fbdev: Improve performance of sys_imageblit()
Improve the performance of sys_imageblit() by manually unrolling the inner blitting loop and moving some invariants out. The compiler failed to do this automatically. The resulting binary code was even slower than the cfb_imageblit() helper, which uses the same algorithm, but operates on I/O memory. A microbenchmark measures the average number of CPU cycles for sys_imageblit() after a stabilizing period of a few minutes (i7-4790, FullHD, simpledrm, kernel with debugging). The value for CFB is given as a reference. sys_imageblit(), new: 25934 cycles sys_imageblit(), old: 35944 cycles cfb_imageblit(): 30566 cycles In the optimized case, sys_imageblit() is now ~30% faster than before and ~20% faster than cfb_imageblit(). v2: * move switch out of inner loop (Gerd) * remove test for alignment of dst1 (Sam) Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220223193804.18636-3-tzimmermann@suse.de
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