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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2015-01-21 01:27:38 (GMT)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2015-01-23 03:02:55 (GMT)
commit15c2d45d17418cc4a712608c78ff3b5f0583d83b (patch)
tree53e4ee00f5e0b604ee7451ee6e229751043ae0f6 /arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile
parenta113de373bcb7651196e29a49483c8e24e1e6aa9 (diff)
downloadlinux-15c2d45d17418cc4a712608c78ff3b5f0583d83b.tar.xz
powerpc: Add 64bit optimised memcmp
I noticed ksm spending quite a lot of time in memcmp on a large KVM box. The current memcmp loop is very unoptimised - byte at a time compares with no loop unrolling. We can do much much better. Optimise the loop in a few ways: - Unroll the byte at a time loop - For large (at least 32 byte) comparisons that are also 8 byte aligned, use an unrolled modulo scheduled loop using 8 byte loads. This is similar to our glibc memcmp. A simple microbenchmark testing 10000000 iterations of an 8192 byte memcmp was used to measure the performance: baseline: 29.93 s modified: 1.70 s Just over 17x faster. v2: Incorporated some suggestions from Segher: - Use andi. instead of rdlicl. - Convert bdnzt eq, to bdnz. It's just duplicating the earlier compare and was a relic from a previous version. - Don't use cr5, we have plans to use that CR field for fast local atomics. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile
index 1b01159..5526156 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_PPC32) += div64.o copy_32.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += copypage_64.o copyuser_64.o \
usercopy_64.o mem_64.o hweight_64.o \
- copyuser_power7.o string_64.o copypage_power7.o
+ copyuser_power7.o string_64.o copypage_power7.o \
+ memcmp_64.o
ifeq ($(CONFIG_GENERIC_CSUM),)
obj-y += checksum_$(CONFIG_WORD_SIZE).o
obj-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += checksum_wrappers_64.o