[PATCH] powerpc: Optimized strcat for POWER8/PPC64

[Ondřej Bílka]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:17:10AM -0200, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With new optimized strcpy for POWER8 [1], this patch adds an optimized
> strcat which uses it along with default implementation at strings/.
> 
> I see good improvements over POWER7 version on POWER8 machine, specially
> for unaligned cases (where the new strcpy aims to optimize).  Benchtests
> result in attachments.
> 
> Tested on powerpc64 and powerpc64le.
> 
So its just generic strcat where you use ifunc to avoid plt in strcpy
call. Seems ok.