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authorRajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-06-24 02:08:21 -0400
committerTulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-07-16 13:43:51 -0300
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powerpc: strstr optimization
This patch optimizes strstr function for power >= 7 systems.  Performance
gain is obtained using aligned memory access and usage of cmpb
instruction for quicker comparison.  The average improvement of this
optimization is ~40%.  Tested on ppc64 and ppc64le.

2015-07-16  Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan  <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile: Add strstr().
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strstr.S: New File.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr-power7.S: New File.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr-ppc64.c: New File.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr.c: New File.
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+2015-07-16  Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan  <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile: Add strstr-power7
+	and strstr-ppc64..
+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c: Likewise.
+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strstr.S: New File.
+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr-power7.S: New File.
+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr-ppc64.c: New File.
+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr.c: New File.
+
 2015-07-16  Mike Frysinger  <vapier@gentoo.org>
 
 	* sysdeps/hppa/Versions (GLIBC_PRIVATE): Delete _dl_unmap.