[PATCH] aarch64: revert memcpy optimze for kunpeng to avoid performance degradation

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Wed Jan 20 13:09:09 GMT 2021


Hi,

Since I don't have access to this specific hardware, it would be good
if the original author, Xuelei Zhang, of the change could certify this
reversion is ok.

It should be ok during the freeze since it just a selection of an
already tested implementation for an specific chip implementation.

On 20/01/2021 04:20, Shuo Wang wrote:
> In commit 863d775c481704baaa41855fc93e5a1ca2dc6bf6, kunpeng920 is added to default memcpy version,
> however, there is performance degradation when the copy size is some large bytes, eg: 100k. 
> This is the result, tested in glibc-2.28:
>              before backport  after backport	 Performance improvement
> memcpy_1k      0.005              0.005                 0.00%
> memcpy_10k     0.032              0.029                 10.34%
> memcpy_100k    0.356              0.429                 -17.02%
> memcpy_1m      7.470              11.153                -33.02%
> 
> This is the demo
> #include "stdio.h"
> #include "string.h"
> #include "stdlib.h"
> 
> char a[1024*1024] = {12};
> char b[1024*1024] = {13};
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     int i = atoi(argv[1]);
>     int j;
>     int size = atoi(argv[2]);
>     
>     for (j = 0; j < i; j++)
>         memcpy(b, a, size*1024);
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> # gcc -g -O0 memcpy.c -o memcpy
> # time taskset -c 10 ./memcpy 100000 1024
> 
> Co-authored-by: liqingqing <liqingqing3@huawei.com>
> 
> ---
>  sysdeps/aarch64/multiarch/memcpy.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sysdeps/aarch64/multiarch/memcpy.c b/sysdeps/aarch64/multiarch/memcpy.c
> index 27259d3386..0e0a5cbcfb 100644
> --- a/sysdeps/aarch64/multiarch/memcpy.c
> +++ b/sysdeps/aarch64/multiarch/memcpy.c
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ extern __typeof (__redirect_memcpy) __memcpy_falkor attribute_hidden;
>  libc_ifunc (__libc_memcpy,
>              (IS_THUNDERX (midr)
>  	     ? __memcpy_thunderx
> -	     : (IS_FALKOR (midr) || IS_PHECDA (midr) || IS_KUNPENG920 (midr)
> +	     : (IS_FALKOR (midr) || IS_PHECDA (midr)
>  		? __memcpy_falkor
>  		: (IS_THUNDERX2 (midr) || IS_THUNDERX2PA (midr)
>  		  ? __memcpy_thunderx2
> 


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