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authorRajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-12-27 17:48:37 -0200
committerTulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-12-28 11:44:31 -0200
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powerpc64: strchr/strchrnul optimization for power8
The P7 code is used for <=32B strings and for > 32B vectorized loops are used.
This shows as an average 25% improvement depending on the position of search
character.  The performance is same for shorter strings.
Tested on ppc64 and ppc64le.
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+2016-12-28  Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan  <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile
+	(sysdep_routines): Add strchr-power8 and strchrnul_power8.
+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c
+	(strchr): Add __strchr_power8 to list of strchr functions.
+	(strchrnul): Add __strchrnul_power8 to list of strchr functions.
+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strchr-power8.S: New file.
+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strchrnul-power8.S: New file.
+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strchr.c
+	(strchr): Add __strchr_power8 to ifunc list.
+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strchrnul.c
+	(__strchrnul): Add __strchrnul_power8 to ifunc list.
+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power8/strchr.S: New file.
+	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power8/strchrnul.S: New file.
+
 2016-12-28  Florian Weimer  <fweimer@redhat.com>
 
 	* support/Makefile (libsupport-routines): Add