In my 8xx configuration, I get 208 calls to memcmp()
Within those 208 calls, about half of them have constant sizes,
46 have a size of 8, 17 have a size of 16, only a few have a
size over 16. Other fixed sizes are mostly 4, 6 and 10.

This patch inlines calls to memcmp() when size
is constant and lower than or equal to 16

In my 8xx configuration, this reduces the number of calls
to memcmp() from 208 to 123

The following table shows the number of TB timeticks to perform
a constant size memcmp() before and after the patch depending on
the size

        Before  After   Improvement
01:      7577    5682   25%
02:     41668    5682   86%
03:     51137   13258   74%
04:     45455    5682   87%
05:     58713   13258   77%
06:     58712   13258   77%
07:     68183   20834   70%
08:     56819   15153   73%
09:     70077   28411   60%
10:     70077   28411   60%
11:     79546   35986   55%
12:     68182   28411   58%
13:     81440   35986   55%
14:     81440   39774   51%
15:     94697   43562   54%
16:     79546   37881   52%

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/string.h | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/string.h 
b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/string.h
index 35f1aaad9b50..80cf0f9605dd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/string.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/string.h
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCPY
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCMP
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET
@@ -51,10 +53,54 @@ static inline int strncmp(const char *p, const char *q, 
__kernel_size_t size)
        return __strncmp(p, q, size);
 }
 
+static inline int __memcmp1(const void *p, const void *q, int off)
+{
+       return *(u8*)(p + off) - *(u8*)(q + off);
+}
+
+static inline int __memcmp2(const void *p, const void *q, int off)
+{
+       return be16_to_cpu(*(u16*)(p + off)) - be16_to_cpu(*(u16*)(q + off));
+}
+
+static inline int __memcmp4(const void *p, const void *q, int off)
+{
+       return be32_to_cpu(*(u32*)(p + off)) - be32_to_cpu(*(u32*)(q + off));
+}
+
+static inline int __memcmp8(const void *p, const void *q, int off)
+{
+       s64 tmp = be64_to_cpu(*(u64*)(p + off)) - be64_to_cpu(*(u64*)(q + off));
+       return tmp >> 32 ? : (int)tmp;
+}
+
+static inline int __memcmp_cst(const void *p,const void *q,__kernel_size_t 
size)
+{
+       if (size == 1)
+               return __memcmp1(p, q, 0);
+       if (size == 2)
+               return __memcmp2(p, q, 0);
+       if (size == 3)
+               return __memcmp2(p, q, 0) ? : __memcmp1(p, q, 2);
+       if (size == 4)
+               return __memcmp4(p, q, 0);
+       if (size == 5)
+               return __memcmp4(p, q, 0) ? : __memcmp1(p, q, 4);
+       if (size == 6)
+               return __memcmp4(p, q, 0) ? : __memcmp2(p, q, 4);
+       if (size == 7)
+               return __memcmp4(p, q, 0) ? : __memcmp2(p, q, 4) ? : 
__memcmp1(p, q, 6);
+       return __memcmp8(p, q, 0);
+}
+
 static inline int memcmp(const void *p,const void *q,__kernel_size_t size)
 {
        if (unlikely(!size))
                return 0;
+       if (__builtin_constant_p(size) && size <= 8)
+               return __memcmp_cst(p, q, size);
+       if (__builtin_constant_p(size) && size <= 16)
+               return __memcmp8(p, q, 0) ? : __memcmp_cst(p + 8, q + 8, size - 
8);
        return __memcmp(p, q, size);
 }
 
-- 
2.13.3

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