commit 3ec5d83d2a
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jan 25 14:19:40 2020 -0800
x86-64: Avoid rep movsb with short distance [BZ #27130]
introduced some regressions on Intel processors without Fast Short REP
MOV (FSRM). Add Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB to avoid rep movsb with
short distance only on Intel processors with FSRM. bench-memmove-large
on Skylake server shows that cycles of __memmove_evex_unaligned_erms
improves for the following data size:
before after Improvement
length=4127, align1=3, align2=0: 479.38 349.25 27%
length=4223, align1=9, align2=5: 405.62 333.25 18%
length=8223, align1=3, align2=0: 786.12 496.38 37%
length=8319, align1=9, align2=5: 727.50 501.38 31%
length=16415, align1=3, align2=0: 1436.88 840.00 41%
length=16511, align1=9, align2=5: 1375.50 836.38 39%
length=32799, align1=3, align2=0: 2890.00 1860.12 36%
length=32895, align1=9, align2=5: 2891.38 1931.88 33%