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authorAndrew Senkevich <andrew.senkevich@intel.com>2015-12-19 02:47:28 +0300
committerAndrew Senkevich <andrew.senkevich@intel.com>2015-12-19 02:47:28 +0300
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Added memset optimized with AVX512 for KNL hardware.
It shows improvement up to 28% over AVX2 memset (performance results
attached at <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-12/msg00052.html>).

    * sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memset-avx512-no-vzeroupper.S: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Added new file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c: Added new tests.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memset.S: Added new IFUNC branch.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memset_chk.S: Likewise.
    * sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.h (bit_Prefer_No_VZEROUPPER,
    index_Prefer_No_VZEROUPPER): New.
    * sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c (init_cpu_features): Set the
    Prefer_No_VZEROUPPER for Knights Landing.
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