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authorRajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-04-18 11:28:56 +0530
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powerpc64: strrchr optimization for power8
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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+2017-04-18 Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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+ * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile
+ (sysdep_routines): Add strrchr-power8.
+ * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c
+ (strrchr): Add __strrchr_power8 to list of strrchr functions.
+ * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strrchr-power8.S: New file.
+ * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strrchr.c
+ (strrchr): Add __strrchr_power8 to ifunc list.
+ * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power8/strrchr.S: New file.
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2017-04-17 Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>
[BZ #21357]