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[PATCH 3/2] Use strspn/strcspn/strpbrk ifunc in internal calls.


To make a strtok faster and improve performance in general we need to do one
additional change.

A comment:

/* It doesn't make sense to send libc-internal strcspn calls through a PLT.
   The speedup we get from using SSE4.2 instruction is likely eaten away
   by the indirect call in the PLT.  */

Does not make sense at all because nobody bothered to check it. Gap
between these implementations is quite big, when haystack is empty a
sse2 is around 40 cycles slower because it needs to populate a lookup
table and difference only increases with size. That is much bigger than
plt slowdown which is few cycles.

Even benchtest show a gap which also may be reverse by branch
misprediction but my internal benchmark shown.

 simple_strspn stupid_strspn __strspn_sse42  __strspn_sse2
Length    0, alignment  0, acc len  6:  18.6562 35.2344 17.0469 61.6719
Length    6, alignment  0, acc len  6:  59.5469 72.5781 16.4219 73.625

This patch also handles strpbrk which is implemented by including a
x86_64/multiarch/strcspn.S file.

	* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strspn.S: Remove plt indirection.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcspn.S: Likewise.

diff --git a/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcspn.S b/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcspn.S
index 24f55e9..1b3e1aa 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcspn.S
+++ b/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcspn.S
@@ -65,14 +65,7 @@ END(STRCSPN)
 # undef END
 # define END(name) \
 	cfi_endproc; .size STRCSPN_SSE2, .-STRCSPN_SSE2
-# undef libc_hidden_builtin_def
-/* It doesn't make sense to send libc-internal strcspn calls through a PLT.
-   The speedup we get from using SSE4.2 instruction is likely eaten away
-   by the indirect call in the PLT.  */
-# define libc_hidden_builtin_def(name) \
-	.globl __GI_STRCSPN; __GI_STRCSPN = STRCSPN_SSE2
 #endif
-
 #endif /* HAVE_SSE4_SUPPORT */
 
 #ifdef USE_AS_STRPBRK
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strspn.S b/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strspn.S
index bf7308e..fde1e1e 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strspn.S
+++ b/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strspn.S
@@ -50,12 +50,6 @@ END(strspn)
 # undef END
 # define END(name) \
 	cfi_endproc; .size __strspn_sse2, .-__strspn_sse2
-# undef libc_hidden_builtin_def
-/* It doesn't make sense to send libc-internal strspn calls through a PLT.
-   The speedup we get from using SSE4.2 instruction is likely eaten away
-   by the indirect call in the PLT.  */
-# define libc_hidden_builtin_def(name) \
-	.globl __GI_strspn; __GI_strspn = __strspn_sse2
 #endif
 
 #endif /* HAVE_SSE4_SUPPORT */


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