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authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2021-01-12 05:15:49 -0800
committerH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2021-01-12 07:01:34 -0800
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x86-64: Avoid rep movsb with short distance [BZ #27130]
When copying with "rep movsb", if the distance between source and
destination is N*4GB + [1..63] with N >= 0, performance may be very
slow.  This patch updates memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S for AVX and
AVX512 versions with the distance in RCX:

	cmpl	$63, %ecx
	// Don't use "rep movsb" if ECX <= 63
	jbe	L(Don't use rep movsb")
	Use "rep movsb"

Benchtests data with bench-memcpy, bench-memcpy-large, bench-memcpy-random
and bench-memcpy-walk on Skylake, Ice Lake and Tiger Lake show that its
performance impact is within noise range as "rep movsb" is only used for
data size >= 4KB.

(cherry picked from commit 3ec5d83d2a237d39e7fd6ef7a0bc8ac4c171a4a5)
-rw-r--r--NEWS1
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S21
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 24733f343a..58e7079f89 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ The following bugs are resolved with this release:
   [25232] No const correctness for strchr et al. for Clang++
   [25933] Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2
   [25976] nss_compat: internal_end*ent may clobber errno, hiding ERANGE
+  [27130] "rep movsb" performance issue
 
 Security related changes:
 
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S b/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S
index 2e9d86bd33..364cdde62b 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S
+++ b/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S
@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@
 # define REP_MOVSB_THRESHOLD	(2048 * (VEC_SIZE / 16))
 #endif
 
+/* Avoid short distance rep movsb only with non-SSE vector.  */
+#ifndef AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB
+# define AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB (VEC_SIZE > 16)
+#else
+# define AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB 0
+#endif
+
 #ifndef PREFETCH
 # define PREFETCH(addr) prefetcht0 addr
 #endif
@@ -257,7 +264,21 @@ L(movsb):
 #  error Unsupported REP_MOVSB_THRESHOLD and VEC_SIZE!
 # endif
 	jb	L(more_8x_vec_backward)
+# if AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB
+	movq	%rdi, %rcx
+	subq	%rsi, %rcx
+	jmp	2f
+# endif
 1:
+# if AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB
+	movq	%rsi, %rcx
+	subq	%rdi, %rcx
+2:
+/* Avoid "rep movsb" if RCX, the distance between source and destination,
+   is N*4GB + [1..63] with N >= 0.  */
+	cmpl	$63, %ecx
+	jbe	L(more_2x_vec)	/* Avoid "rep movsb" if ECX <= 63.  */
+# endif
 	mov	%RDX_LP, %RCX_LP
 	rep movsb
 L(nop):