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From: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
To: 'GNU C Library' <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] AArch64: Optimize strcpy
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:01:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <PAWPR08MB898220CEF416EE58CD73824583FD9@PAWPR08MB8982.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com> (raw)

Unroll the main loop. Large strings are around 20% faster on modern CPUs.
Passes regress.

---

diff --git a/sysdeps/aarch64/strcpy.S b/sysdeps/aarch64/strcpy.S
index bc14dd9f79d1d0d17727cad522761807e7eef5b8..8b045a92c2b329c6351d523d9375a799d38d168e 100644
--- a/sysdeps/aarch64/strcpy.S
+++ b/sysdeps/aarch64/strcpy.S
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
  * MTE compatible.
  */
 
-/* Arguments and results.  */
 #define dstin		x0
 #define srcin		x1
 #define result		x0
@@ -76,14 +75,14 @@ ENTRY (STRCPY)
 	ld1	{vdata.16b}, [src]
 	cmeq	vhas_nul.16b, vdata.16b, 0
 	lsl	shift, srcin, 2
-	shrn	vend.8b, vhas_nul.8h, 4		/* 128->64 */
+	shrn	vend.8b, vhas_nul.8h, 4
 	fmov	synd, dend
 	lsr	synd, synd, shift
 	cbnz	synd, L(tail)
 
 	ldr	dataq, [src, 16]!
 	cmeq	vhas_nul.16b, vdata.16b, 0
-	shrn	vend.8b, vhas_nul.8h, 4		/* 128->64 */
+	shrn	vend.8b, vhas_nul.8h, 4
 	fmov	synd, dend
 	cbz	synd, L(start_loop)
 
@@ -102,13 +101,10 @@ ENTRY (STRCPY)
 	IFSTPCPY (add result, dstin, len)
 	ret
 
-	.p2align 4,,8
 L(tail):
 	rbit	synd, synd
 	clz	len, synd
 	lsr	len, len, 2
-
-	.p2align 4
 L(less16):
 	tbz	len, 3, L(less8)
 	sub	tmp, len, 7
@@ -141,31 +137,37 @@ L(zerobyte):
 
 	.p2align 4
 L(start_loop):
-	sub	len, src, srcin
+	sub	tmp, srcin, dstin
 	ldr	dataq2, [srcin]
-	add	dst, dstin, len
+	sub	dst, src, tmp
 	str	dataq2, [dstin]
-
-	.p2align 5
 L(loop):
-	str	dataq, [dst], 16
-	ldr	dataq, [src, 16]!
+	str	dataq, [dst], 32
+	ldr	dataq, [src, 16]
+	cmeq	vhas_nul.16b, vdata.16b, 0
+	umaxp	vend.16b, vhas_nul.16b, vhas_nul.16b
+	fmov	synd, dend
+	cbnz	synd, L(loopend)
+	str	dataq, [dst, -16]
+	ldr	dataq, [src, 32]!
 	cmeq	vhas_nul.16b, vdata.16b, 0
 	umaxp	vend.16b, vhas_nul.16b, vhas_nul.16b
 	fmov	synd, dend
 	cbz	synd, L(loop)
-
+	add	dst, dst, 16
+L(loopend):
 	shrn	vend.8b, vhas_nul.8h, 4		/* 128->64 */
 	fmov	synd, dend
+	sub	dst, dst, 31
 #ifndef __AARCH64EB__
 	rbit	synd, synd
 #endif
 	clz	len, synd
 	lsr	len, len, 2
-	sub	tmp, len, 15
-	ldr	dataq, [src, tmp]
-	str	dataq, [dst, tmp]
-	IFSTPCPY (add result, dst, len)
+	add	dst, dst, len
+	ldr	dataq, [dst, tmp]
+	str	dataq, [dst]
+	IFSTPCPY (add result, dst, 15)
 	ret
 
 END (STRCPY)

             reply	other threads:[~2023-01-12 16:01 UTC|newest]

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2023-01-12 16:01 Wilco Dijkstra [this message]
2023-01-13 12:29 ` Szabolcs Nagy

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