In this patch we take advantage of HSW memory bandwidth, manage to
reduce miss branch prediction by avoiding using branch instructions and
force destination to be aligned with avx instruction.
The CPU2006 403.gcc benchmark indicates this patch improves performance
from 2% to 10%.
* config.h.in (HAVE_AVX2_SUPPORT): New #undef.
* sysdeps/i386/configure.ac: Set HAVE_AVX2_SUPPORT and
config-cflags-avx2.
* sysdeps/x86_64/configure.ac: Likewise.
* sysdeps/i386/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/x86_64/configure: Likewise.
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
memset-avx2 only if config-cflags-avx2 is yes.
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c (__libc_ifunc_impl_list):
Tests for memset_chk and memset only if HAVE_AVX2_SUPPORT is
defined.
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memset.S: Define multiple versions
only if HAVE_AVX2_SUPPORT is defined.
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memset_chk.S: Likewise.
This patch adds ifunc tests for x86_64 memset_chk and memset. It also
defines HAS_AVX2 with AVX2_Usable since AVX2 may not be usable even if
processor has AVX2.
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c (__libc_ifunc_impl_list):
Add tests for memset_chk and memset.
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/init-arch.h (HAS_AVX2): Defined
with AVX2_Usable.
A sse42 version of strstr used pcmpistr instruction which is quite
ineffective. A faster way is look for pairs of characters which is uses
sse2, is faster than pcmpistr and for real strings a pairs we look for
are relatively rare.
For linear time complexity we use buy or rent technique which switches
to two-way algorithm when superlinear behaviour is detected.
We add new memcpy version that uses unaligned loads which are fast
on modern processors. This allows second improvement which is avoiding
computed jump which is relatively expensive operation.
Tests available here:
http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~ondra/memcpy_profile_result27_04_13.tar.bz2
