Optimizations are:
1. Use more overlapping stores to avoid branches.
2. Reduce how unrolled the aligning copies are (this is more of a
code-size save, its a negative for some sizes in terms of
perf).
3. For st{r|p}n{cat|cpy} re-order the branches to minimize the
number that are taken.
Performance Changes:
Times are from N = 10 runs of the benchmark suite and are
reported as geometric mean of all ratios of
New Implementation / Old Implementation.
strcat-avx2 -> 0.998
strcpy-avx2 -> 0.937
stpcpy-avx2 -> 0.971
strncpy-avx2 -> 0.793
stpncpy-avx2 -> 0.775
strncat-avx2 -> 0.962
Code Size Changes:
function -> Bytes New / Bytes Old -> Ratio
strcat-avx2 -> 685 / 1639 -> 0.418
strcpy-avx2 -> 560 / 903 -> 0.620
stpcpy-avx2 -> 592 / 939 -> 0.630
strncpy-avx2 -> 1176 / 2390 -> 0.492
stpncpy-avx2 -> 1268 / 2438 -> 0.520
strncat-avx2 -> 1042 / 2563 -> 0.407
Notes:
1. Because of the significant difference between the
implementations they are split into three files.
strcpy-avx2.S -> strcpy, stpcpy, strcat
strncpy-avx2.S -> strncpy
strncat-avx2.S > strncat
I couldn't find a way to merge them without making the
ifdefs incredibly difficult to follow.
Full check passes on x86-64 and build succeeds for all ISA levels w/
and w/o multiarch.
1. Add default ISA level selection in non-multiarch/rtld
implementations.
2. Add ISA level build guards to different implementations.
- I.e strcpy-avx2.S which is ISA level 3 will only build if
compiled ISA level <= 3. Otherwise there is no reason to
include it as we will always use one of the ISA level 4
implementations (strcpy-evex.S).
3. Refactor the ifunc selector and ifunc implementation list to use
the ISA level aware wrapper macros that allow functions below the
compiled ISA level (with a guranteed replacement) to be skipped.
Tested with and without multiarch on x86_64 for ISA levels:
{generic, x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, x86-64-v4}
And m32 with and without multiarch.
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
We stopped adding "Contributed by" or similar lines in sources in 2012
in favour of git logs and keeping the Contributors section of the
glibc manual up to date. Removing these lines makes the license
header a bit more consistent across files and also removes the
possibility of error in attribution when license blocks or files are
copied across since the contributed-by lines don't actually reflect
reality in those cases.
Move all "Contributed by" and similar lines (Written by, Test by,
etc.) into a new file CONTRIBUTED-BY to retain record of these
contributions. These contributors are also mentioned in
manual/contrib.texi, so we just maintain this additional record as a
courtesy to the earlier developers.
The following scripts were used to filter a list of files to edit in
place and to clean up the CONTRIBUTED-BY file respectively. These
were not added to the glibc sources because they're not expected to be
of any use in future given that this is a one time task:
https://gist.github.com/siddhesh/b5ecac94eabfd72ed2916d6d8157e7dchttps://gist.github.com/siddhesh/15ea1f5e435ace9774f485030695ee02
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Since VZEROUPPER triggers RTM abort while VZEROALL won't, select AVX
optimized string/memory functions with
xtest
jz 1f
vzeroall
ret
1:
vzeroupper
ret
at function exit on processors with usable RTM, but without 256-bit EVEX
instructions to avoid VZEROUPPER inside a transactionally executing RTM
region.
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
Optimize x86-64 strcat/strncat, strcpy/strncpy and stpcpy/stpncpy with AVX2.
It uses vector comparison as much as possible. In general, the larger the
source string, the greater performance gain observed, reaching speedups of
1.6x compared to SSE2 unaligned routines. Select AVX2 strcat/strncat,
strcpy/strncpy and stpcpy/stpncpy on AVX2 machines where vzeroupper is
preferred and AVX unaligned load is fast.
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
strcat-avx2, strncat-avx2, strcpy-avx2, strncpy-avx2,
stpcpy-avx2 and stpncpy-avx2.
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c:
(__libc_ifunc_impl_list): Add tests for __strcat_avx2,
__strncat_avx2, __strcpy_avx2, __strncpy_avx2, __stpcpy_avx2
and __stpncpy_avx2.
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/{ifunc-unaligned-ssse3.h =>
ifunc-strcpy.h}: rename header for a more generic name.
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/ifunc-strcpy.h:
(IFUNC_SELECTOR): Return OPTIMIZE (avx2) on AVX 2 machines if
AVX unaligned load is fast and vzeroupper is preferred.
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/stpcpy-avx2.S: New file
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/stpncpy-avx2.S: Likewise
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcat-avx2.S: Likewise
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcpy-avx2.S: Likewise
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strncat-avx2.S: Likewise
* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strncpy-avx2.S: Likewise
