[PATCH 2/2] aarch64,falkor: Use vector registers for copy

Szabolcs Nagy szabolcs.nagy@arm.com
Fri Jun 29 16:28:00 GMT 2018


On 29/06/18 11:43, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> Vector registers perform better than scalar register pairs for copying
> data so prefer them instead.  This results in a time reduction of over
> 50% (i.e. 2x speed improvemnet) for some smaller sizes for memcpy-walk.
> Larger sizes show improvements of around 1% to 2%.  memcpy-random shows
> a very small improvement, in the range of 1-2%.
> 
> 	* sysdeps/aarch64/multiarch/memcpy_falkor.S (__memcpy_falkor):
> 	Use vector registers.

this is ok to commit.



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