diff --git a/string/memmem.c b/string/memmem.c
index d72b8249e62a744c2d031c9ccb0157f141df641f..150777800456075d981bd589e5f00388e9aa54f0 100644
--- a/string/memmem.c
+++ b/string/memmem.c
@@ -15,17 +15,13 @@
    License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
    <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
 
-/* This particular implementation was written by Eric Blake, 2008.  */
-
 #ifndef _LIBC
 # include <config.h>
 #endif
 
-/* Specification of memmem.  */
 #include <string.h>
 
 #ifndef _LIBC
-# define __builtin_expect(expr, val)   (expr)
 # define __memmem	memmem
 #endif
 
@@ -36,51 +32,90 @@
 
 #undef memmem
 
-/* Return the first occurrence of NEEDLE in HAYSTACK.  Return HAYSTACK
-   if NEEDLE_LEN is 0, otherwise NULL if NEEDLE is not found in
-   HAYSTACK.  */
+#define hash2(p) (((size_t)(p)[0] - ((size_t)(p)[-1] << 3)) % sizeof (shift))
+
+/* Fast memmem algorithm with guaranteed linear-time performance.
+   Small needles up to size 2 use a dedicated linear search.  Longer needles
+   up to size 256 use a novel modified Horspool algorithm.  It hashes pairs
+   of characters to quickly skip past mismatches.  The main search loop only
+   exits if the last 2 characters match, avoiding unnecessary calls to memcmp
+   and allowing for a larger skip if there is no match.  A self-adapting
+   filtering check is used to quickly detect mismatches in long needles.
+   By limiting the needle length to 256, the shift table can be reduced to 8
+   bits per entry, lowering preprocessing overhead and minimizing cache effects.
+   The limit also implies worst-case performance is linear.
+   Needles larger than 256 characters use the linear-time Two-Way algorithm.  */
 void *
-__memmem (const void *haystack_start, size_t haystack_len,
-	  const void *needle_start, size_t needle_len)
+__memmem (const void *haystack, size_t hs_len,
+	  const void *needle, size_t ne_len)
 {
-  /* Abstract memory is considered to be an array of 'unsigned char' values,
-     not an array of 'char' values.  See ISO C 99 section 6.2.6.1.  */
-  const unsigned char *haystack = (const unsigned char *) haystack_start;
-  const unsigned char *needle = (const unsigned char *) needle_start;
-
-  if (needle_len == 0)
-    /* The first occurrence of the empty string is deemed to occur at
-       the beginning of the string.  */
-    return (void *) haystack;
-
-  /* Sanity check, otherwise the loop might search through the whole
-     memory.  */
-  if (__glibc_unlikely (haystack_len < needle_len))
+  const unsigned char *hs = (const unsigned char *) haystack;
+  const unsigned char *ne = (const unsigned char *) needle;
+
+  if (ne_len == 0)
+    return (void *) hs;
+  if (ne_len == 1)
+    return (void *) memchr (hs, ne[0], hs_len);
+
+  /* Ensure haystack length is >= needle length.  */
+  if (hs_len < ne_len)
     return NULL;
 
-  /* Use optimizations in memchr when possible, to reduce the search
-     size of haystack using a linear algorithm with a smaller
-     coefficient.  However, avoid memchr for long needles, since we
-     can often achieve sublinear performance.  */
-  if (needle_len < LONG_NEEDLE_THRESHOLD)
+  const unsigned char *end = hs + hs_len - ne_len;
+
+  if (ne_len == 2)
+    {
+      uint32_t nw = ne[0] << 16 | ne[1], hw = hs[0] << 16 | hs[1];
+      for (hs++; hs <= end && hw != nw; )
+	hw = hw << 16 | *++hs;
+      return hw == nw ? (void *)hs - 1 : NULL;
+    }
+
+  /* Use Two-Way algorithm for very long needles.  */
+  if (__builtin_expect (ne_len > 256, 0))
+    return two_way_long_needle (hs, hs_len, ne, ne_len);
+
+  uint8_t shift[256];
+  size_t tmp, shift1;
+  size_t m1 = ne_len - 1;
+  size_t offset = 0;
+
+  memset (shift, 0, sizeof (shift));
+  for (int i = 1; i < m1; i++)
+    shift[hash2 (ne + i)] = i;
+  shift1 = m1 - shift[hash2 (ne + m1)];
+  shift[hash2 (ne + m1)] = m1;
+
+  for ( ; hs <= end; )
     {
-      haystack = memchr (haystack, *needle, haystack_len);
-      if (!haystack || __builtin_expect (needle_len == 1, 0))
-	return (void *) haystack;
-      haystack_len -= haystack - (const unsigned char *) haystack_start;
-      if (haystack_len < needle_len)
-	return NULL;
-      /* Check whether we have a match.  This improves performance since we
-	 avoid the initialization overhead of the two-way algorithm.  */
-      if (memcmp (haystack, needle, needle_len) == 0)
-	return (void *) haystack;
-      return two_way_short_needle (haystack, haystack_len, needle, needle_len);
+      /* Skip past character pairs not in the needle.  */
+      do
+	{
+	  hs += m1;
+	  tmp = shift[hash2 (hs)];
+	}
+      while (tmp == 0 && hs <= end);
+
+      /* If the match is not at the end of the needle, shift to the end
+	 and continue until we match the last 2 characters.  */
+      hs -= tmp;
+      if (tmp < m1)
+	continue;
+
+      if (m1 <= 15 || memcmp (hs + offset, ne + offset, sizeof (long)) == 0)
+	{
+	  if (memcmp (hs, ne, m1) == 0)
+	    return (void *) hs;
+
+	  /* Adjust filter offset when it doesn't find the mismatch.  */
+	  offset = (offset >= sizeof (long) ? offset : m1) - sizeof (long);
+	}
+
+      /* Skip based on matching the last 2 characters.  */
+      hs += shift1;
     }
-  else
-    return two_way_long_needle (haystack, haystack_len, needle, needle_len);
+  return NULL;
 }
 libc_hidden_def (__memmem)
 weak_alias (__memmem, memmem)
 libc_hidden_weak (memmem)
-
-#undef LONG_NEEDLE_THRESHOLD
diff --git a/string/str-two-way.h b/string/str-two-way.h
index 31c3f18fb057cdd999c3ac9e9d894a8b62a98a70..5a800e0eaf1c7505a9340a7aabd149326958df4a 100644
--- a/string/str-two-way.h
+++ b/string/str-two-way.h
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ two_way_short_needle (const unsigned char *haystack, size_t haystack_len,
    If AVAILABLE modifies HAYSTACK_LEN (as in strstr), then at most 3 *
    HAYSTACK_LEN - NEEDLE_LEN comparisons occur in searching, and
    sublinear performance is not possible.  */
-static RETURN_TYPE
+__attribute__((noinline)) static RETURN_TYPE
 two_way_long_needle (const unsigned char *haystack, size_t haystack_len,
 		     const unsigned char *needle, size_t needle_len)
 {
