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x86/i386: Use less assembly in strlen(), speed things up a bit
authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:13:19 +0000 (21:13 +0300)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:33:42 +0000 (18:33 +0100)
commit9f81d405db422b7f084a0e06bfc0840e32935629
treea4694f6470484ebac1d82ed317fa5ce5c198006e
parented5d4803e21a70bac5b528437420ec2312e50da6
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@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111211181319.GA17097@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/lib/string_32.c