Improve strncmp for mutually misaligned inputs

The mutually misaligned inputs on aarch64 are compared with a simple
byte copy, which is not very efficient.  Enhance the comparison
similar to strcmp by loading a double-word at a time.  The peak
performance improvement (i.e. 4k maxlen comparisons) due to this on
the strncmp microbenchmark in glibc is as follows:

falkor: 3.5x (up to 72% time reduction)
cortex-a73: 3.5x (up to 71% time reduction)
cortex-a53: 3.5x (up to 71% time reduction)

All mutually misaligned inputs from 16 bytes maxlen onwards show
upwards of 15% improvement and there is no measurable effect on the
performance of aligned/mutually aligned inputs.
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Siddhesh Poyarekar 2018-06-29 18:08:20 +05:30 committed by Corinna Vinschen
parent 5ed8f2354f
commit f44eee8f1b
1 changed files with 79 additions and 17 deletions

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/* Copyright (c) 2013, Linaro Limited
/* Copyright (c) 2013, 2018, Linaro Limited
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
#define limit_wd x13
#define mask x14
#define endloop x15
#define count mask
.text
.p2align 6
@ -78,9 +79,9 @@ def_fn strncmp
eor tmp1, src1, src2
mov zeroones, #REP8_01
tst tmp1, #7
and count, src1, #7
b.ne .Lmisaligned8
ands tmp1, src1, #7
b.ne .Lmutual_align
cbnz count, .Lmutual_align
/* Calculate the number of full and partial words -1. */
sub limit_wd, limit, #1 /* limit != 0, so no underflow. */
lsr limit_wd, limit_wd, #3 /* Convert to Dwords. */
@ -185,44 +186,105 @@ def_fn strncmp
bic src1, src1, #7
bic src2, src2, #7
ldr data1, [src1], #8
neg tmp3, tmp1, lsl #3 /* 64 - bits(bytes beyond align). */
neg tmp3, count, lsl #3 /* 64 - bits(bytes beyond align). */
ldr data2, [src2], #8
mov tmp2, #~0
sub limit_wd, limit, #1 /* limit != 0, so no underflow. */
#ifdef __AARCH64EB__
/* Big-endian. Early bytes are at MSB. */
lsl tmp2, tmp2, tmp3 /* Shift (tmp1 & 63). */
lsl tmp2, tmp2, tmp3 /* Shift (count & 63). */
#else
/* Little-endian. Early bytes are at LSB. */
lsr tmp2, tmp2, tmp3 /* Shift (tmp1 & 63). */
lsr tmp2, tmp2, tmp3 /* Shift (count & 63). */
#endif
and tmp3, limit_wd, #7
lsr limit_wd, limit_wd, #3
/* Adjust the limit. Only low 3 bits used, so overflow irrelevant. */
add limit, limit, tmp1
add tmp3, tmp3, tmp1
add limit, limit, count
add tmp3, tmp3, count
orr data1, data1, tmp2
orr data2, data2, tmp2
add limit_wd, limit_wd, tmp3, lsr #3
b .Lstart_realigned
.Lret0:
mov result, #0
ret
.p2align 6
/* Don't bother with dwords for up to 16 bytes. */
.Lmisaligned8:
sub limit, limit, #1
1:
cmp limit, #16
b.hs .Ltry_misaligned_words
.Lbyte_loop:
/* Perhaps we can do better than this. */
ldrb data1w, [src1], #1
ldrb data2w, [src2], #1
subs limit, limit, #1
ccmp data1w, #1, #0, cs /* NZCV = 0b0000. */
ccmp data1w, #1, #0, hi /* NZCV = 0b0000. */
ccmp data1w, data2w, #0, cs /* NZCV = 0b0000. */
b.eq 1b
b.eq .Lbyte_loop
.Ldone:
sub result, data1, data2
ret
.size strncmp, . - strncmp
/* Align the SRC1 to a dword by doing a bytewise compare and then do
the dword loop. */
.Ltry_misaligned_words:
lsr limit_wd, limit, #3
cbz count, .Ldo_misaligned
neg count, count
and count, count, #7
sub limit, limit, count
lsr limit_wd, limit, #3
.Lpage_end_loop:
ldrb data1w, [src1], #1
ldrb data2w, [src2], #1
cmp data1w, #1
ccmp data1w, data2w, #0, cs /* NZCV = 0b0000. */
b.ne .Ldone
subs count, count, #1
b.hi .Lpage_end_loop
.Ldo_misaligned:
/* Prepare ourselves for the next page crossing. Unlike the aligned
loop, we fetch 1 less dword because we risk crossing bounds on
SRC2. */
mov count, #8
subs limit_wd, limit_wd, #1
b.lo .Ldone_loop
.Lloop_misaligned:
and tmp2, src2, #0xff8
eor tmp2, tmp2, #0xff8
cbz tmp2, .Lpage_end_loop
ldr data1, [src1], #8
ldr data2, [src2], #8
sub tmp1, data1, zeroones
orr tmp2, data1, #REP8_7f
eor diff, data1, data2 /* Non-zero if differences found. */
bics has_nul, tmp1, tmp2 /* Non-zero if NUL terminator. */
ccmp diff, #0, #0, eq
b.ne .Lnot_limit
subs limit_wd, limit_wd, #1
b.pl .Lloop_misaligned
.Ldone_loop:
/* We found a difference or a NULL before the limit was reached. */
and limit, limit, #7
cbz limit, .Lnot_limit
/* Read the last word. */
sub src1, src1, 8
sub src2, src2, 8
ldr data1, [src1, limit]
ldr data2, [src2, limit]
sub tmp1, data1, zeroones
orr tmp2, data1, #REP8_7f
eor diff, data1, data2 /* Non-zero if differences found. */
bics has_nul, tmp1, tmp2 /* Non-zero if NUL terminator. */
ccmp diff, #0, #0, eq
b.ne .Lnot_limit
.Lret0:
mov result, #0
ret
.size strncmp, . - strncmp
#endif