Optimizations are:
1. Use the fact that tzcnt(0) -> VEC_SIZE for memchr to save a branch
in short string case.
2. Restructure code so that small strings are given the hot path.
- This is a net-zero on the benchmark suite but in general makes
sense as smaller sizes are far more common.
3. Use more code-size efficient instructions.
- tzcnt ... -> bsf ...
- vpcmpb $0 ... -> vpcmpeq ...
4. Align labels less aggressively, especially if it doesn't save fetch
blocks / causes the basic-block to span extra cache-lines.
The optimizations (especially for point 2) make the memchr and
rawmemchr code essentially incompatible so split rawmemchr-evex
to a new file.
Code Size Changes:
memchr-evex.S : -107 bytes
rawmemchr-evex.S : -53 bytes
Net perf changes:
Reported as geometric mean of all improvements / regressions from N=10
runs of the benchtests. Value as New Time / Old Time so < 1.0 is
improvement and 1.0 is regression.
memchr-evex.S : 0.928
rawmemchr-evex.S : 0.986 (Less targets cross cache lines)
Full results attached in email.
Full check passes on x86-64.
1. Refactor files so that all implementations for in the multiarch
directory.
- Essentially moved sse2 {raw|w}memchr.S implementation to
multiarch/{raw|w}memchr-sse2.S
- The non-multiarch {raw|w}memchr.S file now only includes one of
the implementations in the multiarch directory based on the
compiled ISA level (only used for non-multiarch builds.
Otherwise we go through the ifunc selector).
2. Add ISA level build guards to different implementations.
- I.e memchr-avx2.S which is ISA level 3 will only build if
compiled ISA level <= 3. Otherwise there is no reason to include
it as we will always use one of the ISA level 4
implementations (memchr-evex{-rtm}.S).
3. Add new multiarch/rtld-{raw}memchr.S that just include the
non-multiarch {raw}memchr.S which will in turn select the best
implementation based on the compiled ISA level.
4. Refactor the ifunc selector and ifunc implementation list to use
the ISA level aware wrapper macros that allow functions below the
compiled ISA level (with a guranteed replacement) to be skipped.
- Guranteed replacement essentially means that for any ISA level
build there must be a function that the baseline of the ISA
supports. So for {raw|w}memchr.S since there is not ISA level 2
function, the ISA level 2 build still includes the ISA level
1 (sse2) function. Once we reach the ISA level 3 build, however,
{raw|w}memchr-avx2{-rtm}.S will always be sufficient so the ISA
level 1 implementation ({raw|w}memchr-sse2.S) will not be built.
Tested with and without multiarch on x86_64 for ISA levels:
{generic, x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, x86-64-v4}
And m32 with and without multiarch.
Update ifunc-avx2.h, strchr.c, strcmp.c, strncmp.c and wcsnlen.c to
select the function optimized with 256-bit EVEX instructions using
YMM16-YMM31 registers to avoid RTM abort with usable AVX512VL, AVX512BW
and BMI2 since VZEROUPPER isn't needed at function exit.
For strcmp/strncmp, prefer AVX2 strcmp/strncmp if Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP
is set.
