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Adhemerval Zanella c9cd7b0ce5 powerpc: POWER8 memcpy optimization for cached memory
On POWER8, unaligned memory accesses to cached memory has little impact
on performance as opposed to its ancestors.

It is disabled by default and will only be available when the tunable
glibc.tune.cached_memopt is set to 1.

                 __memcpy_power8_cached      __memcpy_power7
============================================================
    max-size=4096:     33325.70 ( 12.65%)        38153.00
    max-size=8192:     32878.20 ( 11.17%)        37012.30
   max-size=16384:     33782.20 ( 11.61%)        38219.20
   max-size=32768:     33296.20 ( 11.30%)        37538.30
   max-size=65536:     33765.60 ( 10.53%)        37738.40

	* manual/tunables.texi (Hardware Capability Tunables): Document
	glibc.tune.cached_memopt.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/cpu-features.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/cpu-features.h: New file.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.c [!IS_IN(ldconfig)]: Add
	_dl_powerpc_cpu_features.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/dl-tunables.list: New file.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/ldsodefs.h: Include cpu-features.h.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power4/multiarch/init-arch.h
	(INIT_ARCH): Initialize use_aligned_memopt.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/dl-machine.h [defined(SHARED &&
	IS_IN(rtld))]: Restrict dl_platform_init availability and
	initialize CPU features used by tunables.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile (sysdep_routines):
	Add memcpy-power8-cached.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c: Add
	__memcpy_power8_cached.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/memcpy.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/memcpy-power8-cached.S:
	New file.

Reviewed-by: Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan  <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-12-11 17:39:42 -02:00
argp Mark internal argp functions with attribute_hidden [BZ #18822] 2017-10-01 15:10:27 -07:00
assert Fix position of tests-unsupported definition in assert/Makefile. 2017-08-22 00:30:51 +00:00
benchtests benchtests: Enable BENCHSET to run subset of tests 2017-11-28 19:57:46 +05:30
bits Add _Float32 function aliases. 2017-12-07 00:48:31 +00:00
catgets Don't compile non-lib modules as lib modules [BZ #21864] 2017-08-21 05:34:54 -07:00
ChangeLog.old Add missing reference to bug 21654 2017-10-07 13:14:36 +02:00
conform Fix mcontext_t sigcontext namespace (bug 21457). 2017-08-30 22:02:04 +00:00
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csu Use newly built crt*.o files to build shared objects [BZ #22362] 2017-11-06 08:29:57 -08:00
ctype Use locale_t, not __locale_t, throughout glibc 2017-06-20 20:30:06 -04:00
debug x86: Make a space in jmpbuf for shadow stack pointer 2017-11-30 04:58:01 -08:00
dev Rename xlocale.h to bits/types/__locale_t.h. 2017-06-20 20:28:11 -04:00
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hurd hurd: fix gethostname(NULL, 0) 2017-09-07 00:51:17 +02:00
iconv localedef: Add --no-warnings/--warnings option 2017-10-25 13:36:54 -07:00
iconvdata Add new codepage charmaps/IBM858 [BZ #21084] 2017-09-14 15:50:57 +02:00
include Properly compute offsets of note descriptor and next note [BZ #22370] 2017-11-28 09:57:00 -08:00
inet Hide internal idna functions [BZ #18822] 2017-10-01 17:33:22 -07:00
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libio Always do locking when iterating over list of streams (bug 15142) 2017-10-05 17:26:05 +02:00
locale Assume that _DIRENT_HAVE_D_TYPE is always defined. 2017-10-30 15:48:33 +01:00
localedata lt_LT locale: Base collation on copy "iso14651_t1" [BZ #22524] 2017-12-07 15:38:11 +01:00
login openpty: use TIOCGPTPEER to open slave side fd 2017-10-08 17:47:58 +02:00
mach hurd: Remove duplicate symbol version 2017-08-28 14:19:55 +02:00
malloc Fix integer overflow in malloc when tcache is enabled [BZ #22375] 2017-11-30 13:42:53 +01:00
manual powerpc: POWER8 memcpy optimization for cached memory 2017-12-11 17:39:42 -02:00
math Fix ctanh (0 + i NaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf) (bug 22568, DR#471). 2017-12-07 16:21:00 +00:00
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misc The -Wstringop-truncation option new in GCC 8 detects common misuses 2017-11-15 17:39:59 -07:00
nis nss: Export nscd hash function as __nss_hash [BZ #22459] 2017-11-23 14:08:11 +01:00
nptl Add elision tunables 2017-12-05 17:48:48 -02:00
nptl_db Move all old ChangeLogs to a top-level ChangeLog.old directory. 2017-09-01 09:31:43 -04:00
nscd nss: Export nscd hash function as __nss_hash [BZ #22459] 2017-11-23 14:08:11 +01:00
nss nss: Export nscd hash function as __nss_hash [BZ #22459] 2017-11-23 14:08:11 +01:00
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posix posix: Make tst-getaddrinfo[45] xtests due to DNS dependency [BZ #20826] 2017-11-28 12:20:01 +01:00
pwd Remove __need macros from stdio.h and wchar.h. 2017-06-08 13:58:17 -04:00
resolv Obsolete p_secstodate. 2017-11-22 22:21:10 +00:00
resource Hide internal __setrlimit function [BZ #18822] 2017-10-01 17:46:54 -07:00
rt aio: Remove internal_function function attribute 2017-08-31 15:59:06 +02:00
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setjmp x86: Make a space in jmpbuf for shadow stack pointer 2017-11-30 04:58:01 -08:00
shadow Remove __need macros from stdio.h and wchar.h. 2017-06-08 13:58:17 -04:00
signal sigwait: Do not fail with EINTR and return error code [BZ #22478] 2017-11-23 11:20:53 +01:00
socket __opensock: Remove internal_function attribute 2017-08-17 10:18:15 +02:00
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support Linux: Implement interfaces for memory protection keys 2017-12-05 15:20:35 +01:00
sysdeps powerpc: POWER8 memcpy optimization for cached memory 2017-12-11 17:39:42 -02:00
sysvipc Fix test-sysvsem on some platforms 2017-01-02 18:53:50 -02:00
termios Hide internal __tcgetattr function [BZ #18822] 2017-10-01 17:48:24 -07:00
time time: Remove the internal_function attribute 2017-08-31 15:59:07 +02:00
timezone timezone: pacify GCC -Wstringop-truncation 2017-11-12 22:00:28 -08:00
wcsmbs Add _Float32 function aliases. 2017-12-07 00:48:31 +00:00
wctype Use locale_t, not __locale_t, throughout glibc 2017-06-20 20:30:06 -04:00
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libc-abis A few more archs have IFUNC support. 2010-03-17 02:43:12 -07:00
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Makerules Use newly built crt*.o files to build shared objects [BZ #22362] 2017-11-06 08:29:57 -08:00
NEWS x86-64: Add sinf with FMA 2017-12-07 10:11:16 -08:00
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README Require Linux kernel 3.2 or later on x86 / x86_64. 2017-05-08 10:45:20 +00:00
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