Since __memcpy_simd is the fastest memcpy on almost all cores, replace
the generic memcpy with it. If SVE is available, a SVE memcpy will be
used by default (including for Neoverse N2).
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 7061 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from math/tgmath.h,
support/tst-support-open-dev-null-range.c, and
sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-vec.S, to work around the following
obscure pre-commit check failure diagnostics from Savannah. I don't
know why I run into these diagnostics whereas others evidently do not.
remote: *** 912-#endif
remote: *** 913:
remote: *** 914-
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
...
remote: *** error: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statx_cp.c: trailing lines
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 6694 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from benchtests/bench-pthread-locks.c
and iconvdata/tst-iconv-big5-hkscs-to-2ucs4.c, to work around this
diagnostic from Savannah:
remote: *** pre-commit check failed ...
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
DELOUSE was added to asm code to make them compatible with non-LP64
ABIs, but it is an unfortunate name and the code was not compatible
with ABIs where pointer and size_t are different. Glibc currently
only supports the LP64 ABI so these macros are not really needed or
tested, but for now the name is changed to be more meaningful instead
of removing them completely.
Some DELOUSE macros were dropped: clone, strlen and strnlen used it
unnecessarily.
The out of tree ILP32 patches are currently not maintained and will
likely need a rework to rebase them on top of the time64 changes.
Further optimize integer memcpy. Small cases now include copies up
to 32 bytes. 64-128 byte copies are split into two cases to improve
performance of 64-96 byte copies. Comments have been rewritten.
Increase the upper bound on medium cases from 96 to 128 bytes.
Now, up to 128 bytes are copied unrolled.
Increase the upper bound on small cases from 16 to 32 bytes so that
copies of 17-32 bytes are not impacted by the larger medium case.
Benchmarking:
The attached figures show relative timing difference with respect
to 'memcpy_generic', which is the existing implementation.
'memcpy_med_128' denotes the the version of memcpy_generic with
only the medium case enlarged. The 'memcpy_med_128_small_32' numbers
are for the version of memcpy_generic submitted in this patch, which
has both medium and small cases enlarged. The figures were generated
using the script from:
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-10/msg00563.html
Depending on the platform, the performance improvement in the
bench-memcpy-random.c benchmark ranges from 6% to 20% between
the original and final version of memcpy.S
Tested against GLIBC testsuite and randomized tests.
cases: small copies of up to 16 bytes, medium copies of 17..96 bytes which are
fully unrolled. Large copies of more than 96 bytes align the destination and
use an unrolled loop processing 64 bytes per iteration. In order to share code
with memmove, small and medium copies read all data before writing, allowing
any kind of overlap. All memmoves except for the large backwards case fall
into memcpy for optimal performance. On a random copy test memcpy/memmove are
40% faster on Cortex-A57 and 28% on Cortex-A53.
* sysdeps/aarch64/memcpy.S (memcpy):
Rewrite of optimized memcpy and memmove.
* sysdeps/aarch64/memmove.S (memmove): Remove
memmove code (merged into memcpy.S).
This patch moves the AArch64 port to the main sysdeps hierarchy. The
move is essentially:
git mv ports/sysdeps/aarch64 sysdeps/aarch64
git mv ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64
The README is updated and I've updated ChangeLog.aarch64 along the
lines of the ARM move. The AArch64 build has been tested to confirm
that there were no changes in objdump -dr output or the shared
objects.
