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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
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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>
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# powerpc specific tunables.
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# Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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# This file is part of the GNU C Library.
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# The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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# version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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# The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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# Lesser General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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# License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
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# <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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glibc {
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tune {
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cached_memopt {
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type: INT_32
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minval: 0
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maxval: 1
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default: 0
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}
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}
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}
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