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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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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strchr.c b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strchr.c
index e24d6b319e..2ffb1f6c5d 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strchr.c
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strchr.c
@@ -27,11 +27,14 @@
 
 extern __typeof (strchr) __strchr_ppc attribute_hidden;
 extern __typeof (strchr) __strchr_power7 attribute_hidden;
+extern __typeof (strchr) __strchr_power8 attribute_hidden;
 # undef strchr
 
 /* Avoid DWARF definition DIE on ifunc symbol so that GDB can handle
    ifunc symbol properly.  */
 libc_ifunc_redirected (__redirect_strchr, strchr,
+		       (hwcap2 & PPC_FEATURE2_ARCH_2_07)
+		       ? __strchr_power8 :
 		       (hwcap & PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX)
 		       ? __strchr_power7
 		       : __strchr_ppc);