The goal of this flag is to allow targets which don't prefer/have ERMS
to still access the non-temporal memset implementation.
There are 4 cases for tuning memset:
1) `Avoid_STOSB && Avoid_Non_Temporal_Memset`
- Memset with temporal stores
2) `Avoid_STOSB && !Avoid_Non_Temporal_Memset`
- Memset with temporal/non-temporal stores. Non-temporal path
goes through `rep stosb` path. We accomplish this by setting
`x86_rep_stosb_threshold` to
`x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold`.
3) `!Avoid_STOSB && Avoid_Non_Temporal_Memset`
- Memset with temporal stores/`rep stosb`
3) `!Avoid_STOSB && !Avoid_Non_Temporal_Memset`
- Memset with temporal stores/`rep stosb`/non-temporal stores.
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
The original commit enabling non-temporal memset on Skylake Server had
erroneous benchmarks (actually done on ICX).
Further benchmarks indicate non-temporal stores may in fact by a
regression on Skylake Server.
This commit may be over-cautious in some cases, but should avoid any
regressions for 2.40.
Tested using qemu on all x86_64 cpu arch supported by both qemu +
GLIBC.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
The tunable parsing duplicates the tunable environment variable so it
null-terminates each one since it simplifies the later parsing. It has
the drawback of adding another point of failure (__minimal_malloc
failing), and the memory copy requires tuning the compiler to avoid mem
operations calls.
The parsing now tracks the tunable start and its size. The
dl-tunable-parse.h adds helper functions to help parsing, like a strcmp
that also checks for size and an iterator for suboptions that are
comma-separated (used on hwcap parsing by x86, powerpc, and s390x).
Since the environment variable is allocated on the stack by the kernel,
it is safe to keep the references to the suboptions for later parsing
of string tunables (as done by set_hwcaps by multiple architectures).
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, powerpc64le-linux-gnu, and
aarch64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
