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Commit c9cd7b0c authored by Adhemerval Zanella's avatar Adhemerval Zanella Committed by Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
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powerpc: POWER8 memcpy optimization for cached memory



On POWER8, unaligned memory accesses to cached memory has little impact
on performance as opposed to its ancestors.

It is disabled by default and will only be available when the tunable
glibc.tune.cached_memopt is set to 1.

                 __memcpy_power8_cached      __memcpy_power7
============================================================
    max-size=4096:     33325.70 ( 12.65%)        38153.00
    max-size=8192:     32878.20 ( 11.17%)        37012.30
   max-size=16384:     33782.20 ( 11.61%)        38219.20
   max-size=32768:     33296.20 ( 11.30%)        37538.30
   max-size=65536:     33765.60 ( 10.53%)        37738.40

	* manual/tunables.texi (Hardware Capability Tunables): Document
	glibc.tune.cached_memopt.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/cpu-features.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/cpu-features.h: New file.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.c [!IS_IN(ldconfig)]: Add
	_dl_powerpc_cpu_features.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/dl-tunables.list: New file.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/ldsodefs.h: Include cpu-features.h.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power4/multiarch/init-arch.h
	(INIT_ARCH): Initialize use_aligned_memopt.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/dl-machine.h [defined(SHARED &&
	IS_IN(rtld))]: Restrict dl_platform_init availability and
	initialize CPU features used by tunables.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile (sysdep_routines):
	Add memcpy-power8-cached.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c: Add
	__memcpy_power8_cached.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/memcpy.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/memcpy-power8-cached.S:
	New file.

Reviewed-by: default avatarRajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
parent e70c6fee
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