From: Craig Magina <craig.magina at canonical.com> Using the glibc cortex string work work authored by Linaro as base to create new copy to/from user kernel routine. Iperf performance increase: -l (size) 1 core result Optimized 64B 44-51Mb/s 1500B 4.9Gb/s 30000B 16.2Gb/s Original 64B 34-50.7Mb/s 1500B 4.7Gb/s 30000B 14.5Gb/s BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1400349 Note there was one change I did to move around tst to be right next to the branch for better optimization for ThunderX. Signed-off-by: Craig Magina <craig.magina at canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter at cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Vadim Lomovtsev <Vadim.Lomovtsev at caviumnetworks.com> --- arch/arm64/lib/copy_template.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_template.S b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_template.S index c07eea6..bdce432 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_template.S +++ b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_template.S @@ -169,9 +169,9 @@ D_h .req x14 USER(12f, stp B_l, B_h, [dst, #16]) USER(12f, stp C_l, C_h, [dst, #32]) USER(12f, stp D_l, D_h, [dst, #48]) - tst count, #0x3f add src, src, #64 add dst, dst, #64 + tst count, #0x3f b.ne .Ltail63 b .Lsuccess -- 2.4.3