Re: [PATCH][AArch64] Add ifunc support for Ares

[Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco dot Dijkstra at arm dot com>]

Hi Siddhesh,

> The falkor memcpy has a very specific quirk that reuses register names 
> to optimise prefetcher usage so it may not necessarily work well with 
> other implementations.  Perhaps a new implementation similar to the 
> stock memcpy but with vector registers would be more suitable for a 
> __memcpy_simd.

Reusing registers does not matter on an out-of-order core since they are
renamed. But you're right that a generic SIMD memcpy could do better.
For example using LDP/STP of Q registers will be smaller and faster,
maybe even on Falkor.

Cheers,
Wilco