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authorRajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-04-13 11:29:20 +0530
committerRajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-04-13 11:29:20 +0530
commit249dcdb71b79e4c488a46c9027e0014c0bc27044 (patch)
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powerpc: Optimized strncat for POWER8
With new optimized strnlen for POWER8 [1], this patch adds
strncat for power8 to make use of optimized strlen and strnlen.
This is faster than POWER7 current implementation for larger strings.

Tested on powerpc64 and powerpc64le.

[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-03/msg00491.html

	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
	strncat-power8.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncat.c (strncat): Add
	__strncat_power8 to ifunc list.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c
	(strncat): Add __strncat_power8 to list of strncat functions.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncat-power8.c: New file.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncat.c')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncat.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncat.c b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncat.c
index 1aa5c11ea4..ba3fe5cac4 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncat.c
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncat.c
@@ -23,9 +23,12 @@
 
 extern __typeof (strncat) __strncat_ppc attribute_hidden;
 extern __typeof (strncat) __strncat_power7 attribute_hidden;
+extern __typeof (strncat) __strncat_power8 attribute_hidden;
 
 libc_ifunc (strncat,
-            (hwcap & PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX)
+	    (hwcap & PPC_FEATURE2_ARCH_2_07)
+	    ? __strncat_power8
+	    : (hwcap & PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX)
             ? __strncat_power7
             : __strncat_ppc);
 #endif