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[3/4] x86: Do not prefer ERMS for memset on Zen3+

Message ID 20231031200925.3297456-4-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
Headers
Series x86: Improve ERMS usage on Zen3+ |

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Commit Message

Adhemerval Zanella Netto Oct. 31, 2023, 8:09 p.m. UTC 
  The REP STOSB usage on memset does show any performance gain on
Zen3/Zen4 cores compared to the vectorized loops.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
---
 sysdeps/x86/dl-cacheinfo.h | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/dl-cacheinfo.h b/sysdeps/x86/dl-cacheinfo.h
index 51e5ba200f..99ba0f776a 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/dl-cacheinfo.h
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/dl-cacheinfo.h
@@ -1018,11 +1018,17 @@  dl_init_cacheinfo (struct cpu_features *cpu_features)
   if (tunable_size > minimum_rep_movsb_threshold)
     rep_movsb_threshold = tunable_size;
 
-  /* NB: The default value of the x86_rep_stosb_threshold tunable is the
-     same as the default value of __x86_rep_stosb_threshold and the
-     minimum value is fixed.  */
-  rep_stosb_threshold = TUNABLE_GET (x86_rep_stosb_threshold,
-				     long int, NULL);
+  /* For AMD Zen3+ architecture, the performance of vectorized loop is
+     slight better than ERMS.  */
+  if (cpu_features->basic.kind == arch_kind_amd)
+    rep_stosb_threshold = SIZE_MAX;
+
+  if (TUNABLE_IS_INITIALIZED (x86_rep_stosb_threshold))
+    /* NB: The default value of the x86_rep_stosb_threshold tunable is the
+       same as the default value of __x86_rep_stosb_threshold and the
+       minimum value is fixed.  */
+    rep_stosb_threshold = TUNABLE_GET (x86_rep_stosb_threshold,
+				       long int, NULL);
 
   TUNABLE_SET_WITH_BOUNDS (x86_data_cache_size, data, 0, SIZE_MAX);
   TUNABLE_SET_WITH_BOUNDS (x86_shared_cache_size, shared, 0, SIZE_MAX);