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authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2017-10-22 08:11:15 -0700
committerH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2017-10-22 08:12:41 -0700
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i386: Replace assembly versions of e_powf with generic e_powf.c
This patch replaces i386 assembly versions of e_powf with generic
e_powf.c.  For workload-spec2017.wrf, on Nehalem, it improves
performance by:

                           Before            After     Improvement
reciprocal-throughput      230.855          78.3358       194%
latency                    231.685          94.1259       146%

On Skylake, it improves performance by:

                           Before            After     Improvement
reciprocal-throughput      239.858          47.4713       405%
latency                    247.57           93.8798       163%

On IvyBridge with --disable-multi-arch, it improves performance by:

                           Before            After     Improvement
reciprocal-throughput      269.078          63.3758       324%
latency                    271.473          102.091       165%

	* sysdeps/i386/fpu/e_powf.S: Removed.
	* sysdeps/i386/fpu/e_powf_log2_data.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/i386/fpu/w_powf.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/i386/fpu/libm-test-ulps: Updated for generic e_powf.c.
	* sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu/multiarch/libm-test-ulps: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu/multiarch/Makefile (libm-sysdep_routines):
	Add e_powf-sse2.
	(CFLAGS-e_powf-sse2.c): New.
	* sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu/multiarch/e_powf-sse2.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu/multiarch/e_powf.c: Likewise.
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 2017-10-22  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
 
+	* sysdeps/i386/fpu/e_powf.S: Removed.
+	* sysdeps/i386/fpu/e_powf_log2_data.c: Likewise.
+	* sysdeps/i386/fpu/w_powf.c: Likewise.
+	* sysdeps/i386/fpu/libm-test-ulps: Updated for generic e_powf.c.
+	* sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu/multiarch/libm-test-ulps: Likewise.
+	* sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu/multiarch/Makefile (libm-sysdep_routines):
+	Add e_powf-sse2.
+	(CFLAGS-e_powf-sse2.c): New.
+	* sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu/multiarch/e_powf-sse2.c: New file.
+	* sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu/multiarch/e_powf.c: Likewise.
+
+2017-10-22  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
 	* sysdeps/i386/fpu/e_log2f.S: Removed.
 	* sysdeps/i386/fpu/e_log2f_data.c: Likewise.
 	* sysdeps/i386/fpu/w_log2f.c: Likewise.