[PATCH] PowerPC: memmove default implementation cleanup
Ondřej Bílka
neleai@seznam.cz
Tue Jun 24 16:11:00 GMT 2014
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:21:30AM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> This patch removes the powerpc specific logic in memmove and instead
> include default implementation with MEMCPY_OK_FOR_FWD_MEMMOVE defined.
> This lead in a increase performance, since the constraints to use
> memcpy in powerpc code are too restrictive and memcpy can be used for
> any forward memmove (and the rest to PPC implementation is just a copy
> of default one).
>
> Checked on powerpc32-fpu and powerpc64be. OK to apply?
>
That looks ok, I would go step more and say that aliasing memcpy to
memmove will differ only by few cycles and could improve performance
due of cache locality but I did not do test yet.
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