aarch64: Added optimized memcpy and memmove for A64FX

This patch optimizes the performance of memcpy/memmove for A64FX [1]
which implements ARMv8-A SVE and has L1 64KB cache per core and L2 8MB
cache per NUMA node.

The performance optimization makes use of Scalable Vector Register
with several techniques such as loop unrolling, memory access
alignment, cache zero fill, and software pipelining.

SVE assembler code for memcpy/memmove is implemented as Vector Length
Agnostic code so theoretically it can be run on any SOC which supports
ARMv8-A SVE standard.

We confirmed that all testcases have been passed by running 'make
check' and 'make xcheck' not only on A64FX but also on ThunderX2.

And also we confirmed that the SVE 512 bit vector register performance
is roughly 4 times better than Advanced SIMD 128 bit register and 8
times better than scalar 64 bit register by running 'make bench'.

[1] https://github.com/fujitsu/A64FX

Reviewed-by: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/manual/tunables.texi b/manual/tunables.texi
index 6de647b426..fe7c1313cc 100644
--- a/manual/tunables.texi
+++ b/manual/tunables.texi
@@ -454,7 +454,8 @@ This tunable is specific to powerpc, powerpc64 and powerpc64le.
 The @code{glibc.cpu.name=xxx} tunable allows the user to tell @theglibc{} to
 assume that the CPU is @code{xxx} where xxx may have one of these values:
 @code{generic}, @code{falkor}, @code{thunderxt88}, @code{thunderx2t99},
-@code{thunderx2t99p1}, @code{ares}, @code{emag}, @code{kunpeng}.
+@code{thunderx2t99p1}, @code{ares}, @code{emag}, @code{kunpeng},
+@code{a64fx}.
 
 This tunable is specific to aarch64.
 @end deftp