The new code:
1. prioritizes smaller user-arg lengths more.
2. optimizes target placement more carefully
3. reuses logic more
4. fixes up various inefficiencies in the logic. The biggest
case here is the `lzcnt` logic for checking returns which
saves either a branch or multiple instructions.
The total code size saving is: 263 bytes
Geometric Mean of all benchmarks New / Old: 0.755
Regressions:
There are some regressions. Particularly where the length (user arg
length) is large but the position of the match char is near the
beginning of the string (in first VEC). This case has roughly a
20% regression.
This is because the new logic gives the hot path for immediate matches
to shorter lengths (the more common input). This case has roughly
a 35% speedup.
Full xcheck passes on x86_64.
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
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
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.
