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Optimize bzero() by unrolling the aligned quadword loop and moving the length

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manipulation away from the length comparison.  Measurements on beast.cdrom.com
show >3X improvement over the original code on large block sizes, putting the
performance on par with the optimized assembly code in libc.
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Alexander Langer 1998-11-02 00:14:50 +00:00
parent e0b7bc571a
commit 9184fb847b
1 changed files with 14 additions and 2 deletions
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sys/alpha/alpha/machdep.c
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@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
* OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
* SUCH DAMAGE. * SUCH DAMAGE.
* *
* $Id: machdep.c,v 1.18 1998/10/15 22:00:54 dfr Exp $ * $Id: machdep.c,v 1.19 1998/10/30 05:41:07 msmith Exp $
*/ */
/*- /*-
* Copyright (c) 1998 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. * Copyright (c) 1998 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@ -1029,10 +1029,22 @@ bzero(void *buf, size_t len)
*p++ = 0; *p++ = 0;
len--; len--;
} }
while (len >= sizeof(u_long) * 8) {
*(u_long*) p = 0;
*((u_long*) p + 1) = 0;
*((u_long*) p + 2) = 0;
*((u_long*) p + 3) = 0;
len -= sizeof(u_long) * 8;
*((u_long*) p + 4) = 0;
*((u_long*) p + 5) = 0;
*((u_long*) p + 6) = 0;
*((u_long*) p + 7) = 0;
p += sizeof(u_long) * 8;
}
while (len >= sizeof(u_long)) { while (len >= sizeof(u_long)) {
*(u_long*) p = 0; *(u_long*) p = 0;
p += sizeof(u_long);
len -= sizeof(u_long); len -= sizeof(u_long);
p += sizeof(u_long);
} }
while (len) { while (len) {
*p++ = 0; *p++ = 0;