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authorAdhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-07-15 12:19:09 -0400
committerAdhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-09-10 07:39:46 -0400
commit71ae86478edc7b21872464f43fb29ff650c1681a (patch)
treea75679fa464a1d19543020ef0c4f4f982d099d99 /benchtests
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PowerPC: memset optimization for POWER8/PPC64
This patch adds an optimized memset implementation for POWER8.  For
sizes from 0 to 255 bytes, a word/doubleword algorithm similar to
POWER7 optimized one is used.

For size higher than 255 two strategies are used:

1. If the constant is different than 0, the memory is written with
   altivec vector instruction;

2. If constant is 0, dbcz instructions are used.  The loop is unrolled
   to clear 512 byte at time.

Using vector instructions increases throughput considerable, with a
double performance for sizes larger than 1024.  The dcbz loops unrolls
also shows performance improvement, by doubling throughput for sizes
larger than 8192 bytes.
Diffstat (limited to 'benchtests')
-rw-r--r--benchtests/bench-memset.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/benchtests/bench-memset.c b/benchtests/bench-memset.c
index 5304113e3d..20265936b9 100644
--- a/benchtests/bench-memset.c
+++ b/benchtests/bench-memset.c
@@ -150,6 +150,11 @@ test_main (void)
 	  if (i & (i - 1))
 	    do_test (0, c, i);
 	}
+      for (i = 32; i < 512; i+=32)
+	{
+	  do_test (0, c, i);
+	  do_test (i, c, i);
+	}
       do_test (1, c, 14);
       do_test (3, c, 1024);
       do_test (4, c, 64);