powerpc: Optimized strncat for POWER8
commit249dcdb71b79e4c488a46c9027e0014c0bc27044
authorRajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 05:59:20 +0000 (13 11:29 +0530)
committerRajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 05:59:20 +0000 (13 11:29 +0530)
treea14c36ab652bb3d0bf47cac89205b57ae99793c9
parent158d5fa0e1906e7810bdc6ecb7bf598dcc3cd17d
powerpc: Optimized strncat for POWER8

With new optimized strnlen for POWER8 [1], this patch adds
strncat for power8 to make use of optimized strlen and strnlen.
This is faster than POWER7 current implementation for larger strings.

Tested on powerpc64 and powerpc64le.

[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-03/msg00491.html

* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
strncat-power8.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncat.c (strncat): Add
__strncat_power8 to ifunc list.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c
(strncat): Add __strncat_power8 to list of strncat functions.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncat-power8.c: New file.
ChangeLog
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncat-power8.c [copied from sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncat.c with 57% similarity]
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncat.c