PowerPC: memset optimization for POWER8/PPC64

This patch adds an optimized memset implementation for POWER8.  For
sizes from 0 to 255 bytes, a word/doubleword algorithm similar to
POWER7 optimized one is used.

For size higher than 255 two strategies are used:

1. If the constant is different than 0, the memory is written with
   altivec vector instruction;

2. If constant is 0, dbcz instructions are used.  The loop is unrolled
   to clear 512 byte at time.

Using vector instructions increases throughput considerable, with a
double performance for sizes larger than 1024.  The dcbz loops unrolls
also shows performance improvement, by doubling throughput for sizes
larger than 8192 bytes.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/benchtests/bench-memset.c b/benchtests/bench-memset.c
index 5304113..2026593 100644
--- a/benchtests/bench-memset.c
+++ b/benchtests/bench-memset.c
@@ -150,6 +150,11 @@ test_main (void)
 	  if (i & (i - 1))
 	    do_test (0, c, i);
 	}
+      for (i = 32; i < 512; i+=32)
+	{
+	  do_test (0, c, i);
+	  do_test (i, c, i);
+	}
       do_test (1, c, 14);
       do_test (3, c, 1024);
       do_test (4, c, 64);