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Commit d61931d8 authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86: Add optimized popcnt variants



Add support for the hardware version of the Hamming weight function,
popcnt, present in CPUs which advertize it under CPUID, Function
0x0000_0001_ECX[23]. On CPUs which don't support it, we fallback to the
default lib/hweight.c sw versions.

A synthetic benchmark comparing popcnt with __sw_hweight64 showed almost
a 3x speedup on a F10h machine.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100318112015.GC11152@aftab>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent 1527bc8b
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