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Siddhesh Poyarekar dd5bc7f1b3 aarch64: Optimized implementation of memmove for Qualcomm Falkor
This is an optimized memmove implementation for the Qualcomm Falkor
processor core.  Due to the way the falkor memcpy needs to be written,
code cannot be easily shared between memmove and memcpy like in case
of other aarch64 memcpy implementations due to which this routine is
separate.  The underlying principle is the same as that of memcpy
where it tries to use registers with the same lower 4 bits for
fetching the same stream, thus optimizing hardware prefetcher
performance.

The memcpy copy loop copies 64 bytes at a time using the same register
pair since that's the way to train the hardware prefetcher on the
falkor core.  memmove cannot quite do that since it needs to avoid
overlaps, so it does the next best thing, i.e. has a 32 byte loop with
a 32 byte end (prefetch a loop ahead to account for overlapping
locations) with register pairs that alias so that they hit the same
prefetcher.  Due to this difference in loop size, they have to
currently be separate implementations but efforts are on to try and
get memmove to fall back into memcpy whenever it can without simply
duplicating all of the code.

Performance:

The routine fares around 20-25% better than the generic memmove for
most medium to large sizes (i.e. > 128 bytes) for the new walking
memmove benchmark (memmove-walk) with an unexplained regression
between 1K and 2K.  The minor regression is something worth looking
into for us, but the remaining gains are significant enough that we
would like this included upstream as we looking into the cause for the
regression.  Here is a snippet of the numbers as generated from the
microbenchmark by the compare_strings script.  Comparisons are against
__memmove_generic:

Function: memmove
Variant: walk
                                    __memmove_thunderx	__memmove_falkor	__memmove_generic
========================================================================================================================
<snip>
                        length=16384:  12508800.00 (  6.09%)	 11486800.00 ( 13.76%)	 13319600.00
                        length=16400:  13614200.00 ( -0.67%)	 11585000.00 ( 14.33%)	 13523600.00
                        length=16385:  13448400.00 (  0.10%)	 11732700.00 ( 12.84%)	 13461200.00
                        length=16399:  13594100.00 ( -0.22%)	 11859600.00 ( 12.57%)	 13564400.00
                        length=16386:  13211600.00 (  1.13%)	 11503800.00 ( 13.91%)	 13362400.00
                        length=16398:  13218600.00 (  2.12%)	 11573200.00 ( 14.30%)	 13504700.00
                        length=16387:  13510900.00 ( -0.37%)	 11744200.00 ( 12.76%)	 13461300.00
                        length=16397:  13603700.00 ( -0.15%)	 11878200.00 ( 12.55%)	 13583200.00
                        length=16388:  13461700.00 ( -0.13%)	 11558000.00 ( 14.03%)	 13444100.00
                        length=16396:  13517500.00 ( -0.03%)	 11561300.00 ( 14.45%)	 13513900.00
                        length=16389:  13534100.00 (  0.17%)	 11756800.00 ( 13.28%)	 13556900.00
                        length=16395:  13585600.00 (  0.11%)	 11791800.00 ( 13.30%)	 13601200.00
                        length=16390:  13480100.00 ( -0.13%)	 11685500.00 ( 13.20%)	 13462100.00
                        length=16394:  13529900.00 ( -0.23%)	 11549800.00 ( 14.43%)	 13498200.00
                        length=16391:  13595400.00 ( -0.26%)	 11768200.00 ( 13.22%)	 13560600.00
                        length=16393:  13567000.00 (  0.20%)	 11779700.00 ( 13.35%)	 13594700.00
                        length=32768:  71308800.00 ( -6.53%)	 50220800.00 ( 24.98%)	 66939200.00
                        length=32784:  72100800.00 (-11.55%)	 50114100.00 ( 22.47%)	 64636300.00
                        length=32769:  71767000.00 ( -7.10%)	 51238400.00 ( 23.54%)	 67010000.00
                        length=32783:  70113700.00 (-40.95%)	 51129000.00 ( -2.78%)	 49744400.00
                        length=32770:  71367600.00 ( -6.52%)	 50244700.00 ( 25.01%)	 67000900.00
                        length=32782:  64366700.00 (  4.71%)	 50101400.00 ( 25.83%)	 67545600.00
                        length=32771:  71440100.00 ( -6.51%)	 51263900.00 ( 23.57%)	 67074900.00
                        length=32781:  66993000.00 (  0.34%)	 51108300.00 ( 23.97%)	 67220300.00
                        length=32772:  71443900.00 (-60.50%)	 50062100.00 (-12.47%)	 44512600.00
                        length=32780:  71759100.00 ( -6.58%)	 50263200.00 ( 25.35%)	 67328600.00
                        length=32773:  71714900.00 (-33.21%)	 51076600.00 (  5.12%)	 53835400.00
                        length=32779:  71756900.00 ( -6.56%)	 51290800.00 ( 23.83%)	 67337800.00
                        length=32774:  59689300.00 (-34.55%)	 50068400.00 (-12.86%)	 44363300.00
                        length=32778:  71847500.00 (-18.20%)	 50084100.00 ( 17.61%)	 60786500.00
                        length=32775:  71599300.00 ( -6.54%)	 51278200.00 ( 23.70%)	 67204800.00
                        length=32777:  71862900.00 (-60.85%)	 51094000.00 (-14.36%)	 44677900.00
                        length=65536: 282848000.00 ( -6.60%)	199187000.00 ( 24.93%)	265325000.00
                        length=65552: 243285000.00 (-41.61%)	198512000.00 (-15.54%)	171805000.00
                        length=65537: 255415000.00 (-23.47%)	202499000.00 (  2.11%)	206858000.00
                        length=65551: 280122000.00 (-62.95%)	203349000.00 (-18.29%)	171911000.00
                        length=65538: 283676000.00 (-14.46%)	198368000.00 ( 19.96%)	247848000.00
                        length=65550: 275566000.00 (-51.76%)	198494000.00 ( -9.31%)	181581000.00
                        length=65539: 283699000.00 ( -6.58%)	203453000.00 ( 23.57%)	266195000.00
                        length=65549: 286572000.00 ( -6.65%)	202607000.00 ( 24.60%)	268712000.00
                        length=65540: 283710000.00 ( -6.59%)	199161000.00 ( 25.17%)	266160000.00
                        length=65548: 237573000.00 ( 11.48%)	198462000.00 ( 26.06%)	268395000.00
                        length=65541: 284150000.00 ( -6.58%)	203273000.00 ( 23.75%)	266600000.00
                        length=65547: 286250000.00 ( -6.70%)	202594000.00 ( 24.48%)	268263000.00
                        length=65542: 284167000.00 ( -6.60%)	199122000.00 ( 25.31%)	266584000.00
                        length=65546: 285656000.00 ( -6.59%)	198443000.00 ( 25.95%)	268002000.00
                        length=65543: 284600000.00 ( -6.58%)	203247000.00 ( 23.89%)	267030000.00
                        length=65545: 285665000.00 ( -6.40%)	202575000.00 ( 24.55%)	268472000.00
<snip>

	* sysdeps/aarch64/multiarch/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
	memmove_falkor.
	* sysdeps/aarch64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c
	(__libc_ifunc_impl_list): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/aarch64/multiarch/memmove.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/aarch64/multiarch/memmove_falkor.S: New file.
2017-10-05 22:20:23 +05:30
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aarch64 aarch64: Optimized implementation of memmove for Qualcomm Falkor 2017-10-05 22:20:23 +05:30
alpha Use libm_alias_double for dbl-64 fma. 2017-10-04 20:32:48 +00:00
arm arm: Don't check _DYNAMIC in elf_machine_load_address 2017-10-03 17:46:07 -07:00
generic Introduce NO_RTLD_HIDDEN, make hurd use it instead of NO_HIDDEN 2017-10-03 01:33:38 +02:00
gnu hurd: Fix getifaddrs' and freeifaddrs' symbol exposition 2017-09-28 01:05:18 +02:00
hppa ld.so: Replace (&bootstrap_map) with BOOTSTRAP_MAP 2017-10-03 01:55:12 -07:00
i386 Don't use hidden visibility in libc.a with PIE on i386 2017-10-04 17:18:42 -07:00
ia64 ld.so: Replace (&bootstrap_map) with BOOTSTRAP_MAP 2017-10-03 01:55:12 -07:00
ieee754 Use libm_alias_double for dbl-64 fma. 2017-10-04 20:32:48 +00:00
init_array Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2017-01-01 00:14:16 +00:00
m68k Do not wrap logf, log2f and powf 2017-10-02 14:39:38 +01:00
mach Introduce NO_RTLD_HIDDEN, make hurd use it instead of NO_HIDDEN 2017-10-03 01:33:38 +02:00
microblaze Obsolete pow10 functions. 2017-09-01 21:13:18 +00:00
mips mips: Don't check _DYNAMIC in elf_machine_load_address 2017-10-03 17:47:51 -07:00
nios2 Enable unwind info in libc-start.c and backtrace.c 2017-09-19 15:07:58 +01:00
nptl Remove add-ons mechanism. 2017-10-05 15:58:13 +00:00
posix Hide internal idna functions [BZ #18822] 2017-10-01 17:33:22 -07:00
powerpc Use libm_alias_double for dbl-64 modf. 2017-10-03 23:46:23 +00:00
pthread aio: Remove internal_function function attribute 2017-08-31 15:59:06 +02:00
s390 S390: Regenerate ULPs 2017-10-05 12:50:49 +02:00
sh Enable unwind info in libc-start.c and backtrace.c 2017-09-19 15:07:58 +01:00
sparc Use libm_alias_double for dbl-64 fma. 2017-10-04 20:32:48 +00:00
tile Remove ancient __signbit inlines 2017-09-28 19:52:13 +01:00
unix Remove add-ons mechanism. 2017-10-05 15:58:13 +00:00
wordsize-32 Build divdi3 only for architecture that required it 2017-04-06 15:14:34 -03:00
wordsize-64 posix: Consolidate Linux glob implementation 2017-09-08 16:34:02 +02:00
x86 Remove ancient __signbit inlines 2017-09-28 19:52:13 +01:00
x86_64 Revert x86: Allow undefined _DYNAMIC in static executable 2017-10-03 17:49:09 -07:00