[PATCH v2 1/3] lib/string: optimized memcpy
Ben Dooks
ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk
Fri Jul 2 07:37:19 PDT 2021
On 02/07/2021 13:31, Matteo Croce wrote:
> From: Matteo Croce <mcroce at microsoft.com>
>
> Rewrite the generic memcpy() to copy a word at time, without generating
> unaligned accesses.
>
> The procedure is made of three steps:
> First copy data one byte at time until the destination buffer is aligned
> to a long boundary.
> Then copy the data one long at time shifting the current and the next long
> to compose a long at every cycle.
> Finally, copy the remainder one byte at time.
>
> This is the improvement on RISC-V:
>
> original aligned: 75 Mb/s
> original unaligned: 75 Mb/s
> new aligned: 114 Mb/s
> new unaligned: 107 Mb/s
>
> and this the binary size increase according to bloat-o-meter:
>
> Function old new delta
> memcpy 36 324 +288
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce at microsoft.com>
> ---
> lib/string.c | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Doesn't arch/riscv/lib/memcpy.S also exist for an architecture
optimised version? I would have thought the lib/string.c version
was not being used?
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