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From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Subject: [PING][PATCH 0/2] aarch64,falkor: memcpy/memmove performance improvements
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 02:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89b4a63f-75e0-3b10-4320-660b83b9273f@gotplt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180503175209.2943-1-siddhesh@sourceware.org>

Ping!

On 05/03/2018 11:22 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here are a couple of patches to improve performance of the falkor memcpy
> and memmove implementations based on testing on the latest hardware.
> The theme of the optimization is to avoid trying to train the hardware
> prefetcher for smaller sizes and in the loop tail since that just
> mis-trains the prefetcher.  Instead, use multiple registers to aid
> reordering wherever possible.  Testing showed that regressions in these
> sizes compared to generic memcpy are resolved with this patch.
> 
> Siddhesh
> 
> Siddhesh Poyarekar (2):
>    aarch64,falkor: Ignore prefetcher hints for memmove tail
>    Ignore prefetcher tagging for smaller copies
> 
>   sysdeps/aarch64/multiarch/memcpy_falkor.S  | 68 ++++++++++++++++++------------
>   sysdeps/aarch64/multiarch/memmove_falkor.S | 48 ++++++++++++---------
>   2 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> 

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-10  2:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-03 17:52 [PATCH " Siddhesh Poyarekar
2018-05-03 17:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] Ignore prefetcher tagging for smaller copies Siddhesh Poyarekar
2018-05-10 10:29   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2018-05-03 17:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] aarch64,falkor: Ignore prefetcher hints for memmove tail Siddhesh Poyarekar
2018-05-10 10:29   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2018-05-10  2:59 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar [this message]

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