[tip:x86/asm] x86/i386: Use less assembly in strlen(), speed things up a bit
From: tip-bot for Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Mon Dec 12 2011 - 13:37:40 EST
Commit-ID: 890890cb8e415e1e7a61bfe3c8e246f710196824
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/890890cb8e415e1e7a61bfe3c8e246f710196824
Author: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:13:19 +0300
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:33:42 +0100
x86/i386: Use less assembly in strlen(), speed things up a bit
Current i386 strlen() hardcodes NOT/DEC sequence. DEC is
mentioned to be suboptimal on Core2. So, put only REPNE SCASB
sequence in assembly, compiler can do the rest.
The difference in generated code is like below (MCORE2=y):
<strlen>:
push %edi
mov $0xffffffff,%ecx
mov %eax,%edi
xor %eax,%eax
repnz scas %es:(%edi),%al
not %ecx
- dec %ecx
- mov %ecx,%eax
+ lea -0x1(%ecx),%eax
pop %edi
ret
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111211181319.GA17097@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/lib/string_32.c | 8 +++-----
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/string_32.c b/arch/x86/lib/string_32.c
index 82004d2..bd59090 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/string_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/string_32.c
@@ -164,15 +164,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strchr);
size_t strlen(const char *s)
{
int d0;
- int res;
+ size_t res;
asm volatile("repne\n\t"
- "scasb\n\t"
- "notl %0\n\t"
- "decl %0"
+ "scasb"
: "=c" (res), "=&D" (d0)
: "1" (s), "a" (0), "0" (0xffffffffu)
: "memory");
- return res;
+ return ~res - 1;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strlen);
#endif
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