Simplify handling of remaining bytes. Avoid lots of taken branches and complex
whilelo computations, instead unconditionally write vectors from the end.
Reviewed-by: Naohiro Tamura <naohirot@fujitsu.com>
Improve performance of large memsets. Simplify alignment code. For zero memset
use DC ZVA, which almost doubles performance. For non-zero memsets use the
unroll8 loop which is about 10% faster.
Reviewed-by: Naohiro Tamura <naohirot@fujitsu.com>
Improve performance of small memsets by reducing instruction counts and
improving code alignment. Bench-memset shows 35-45% performance gain for
small sizes.
Reviewed-by: Naohiro Tamura <naohirot@fujitsu.com>
This patch optimizes the performance of memset for A64FX [1] which
implements ARMv8-A SVE and has L1 64KB cache per core and L2 8MB cache
per NUMA node.
The performance optimization makes use of Scalable Vector Register
with several techniques such as loop unrolling, memory access
alignment, cache zero fill and prefetch.
SVE assembler code for memset is implemented as Vector Length Agnostic
code so theoretically it can be run on any SOC which supports ARMv8-A
SVE standard.
We confirmed that all testcases have been passed by running 'make
check' and 'make xcheck' not only on A64FX but also on ThunderX2.
And also we confirmed that the SVE 512 bit vector register performance
is roughly 4 times better than Advanced SIMD 128 bit register and 8
times better than scalar 64 bit register by running 'make bench'.
[1] https://github.com/fujitsu/A64FX
Reviewed-by: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>
