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authorWill Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>2012-08-22 11:04:42 -0500
committerRyan S. Arnold <rsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-08-22 11:04:42 -0500
commit15d0da8cb36f5c96a3c649d29a2e2623e995cd49 (patch)
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Add versions of wcscpy, wcschr, wcsrchr for power6/power7.
Initially based on the versions found in wcsmbs/* ; these files have
been changed by hand unrolling, and adding some additional variables
to allow some read-ahead to occur, which then relieves some of the
wait-for-increment/wait-for-load/wait-for-compare-results pressure
that was slowing down every iteration through the while-loop.

For 64-bit Power7, These changes give an approx 20% throughput boost
for the wcschr and wcsrchr functions; and approx 40% boost for the
wcscpy function.  32-bit improvements appear to be slightly better
with ~ %30 and ~ %45 respectively.  Results for Power6 closely match
those for power7.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/wcschr.c1
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/wcscpy.c1
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/wcsrchr.c1
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/wcschr.c b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/wcschr.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9136c02cb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/wcschr.c
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+#include "../../powerpc32/power6/wcschr.c"
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/wcscpy.c b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/wcscpy.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..57b706ab99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/wcscpy.c
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+#include "../../powerpc32/power6/wcscpy.c"
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/wcsrchr.c b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/wcsrchr.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2327c05b04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/wcsrchr.c
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+#include "../../powerpc32/power6/wcsrchr.c"