This patch provides an optimised implementation of memchr using NEON
instructions to improve its performance, especially with longer search regions.
This gave an improvement in performance against the Thumb2+DSP optimised code,
with more significant gains for larger inputs. The NEON code also wins in cases
where the input is small (less than 8 bytes) by defaulting to a simple
byte-by-byte search. This avoids the overhead imposed by filling two quadword
registers from memory.
* sysdeps/arm/armv7/multiarch/Makefile: Add memchr_neon to
sysdep_routines.
* sysdeps/arm/armv7/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c: Add define for
__memchr_neon.
Add ifunc definitions for __memchr_neon and __memchr_noneon.
* sysdeps/arm/armv7/multiarch/memchr.S: New file.
* sysdeps/arm/armv7/multiarch/memchr_impl.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/arm/armv7/multiarch/memchr_neon.S: Likewise.
Testing done: Ran regression tests for arm-none-linux-gnueabihf as well as a
full toolchain bootstrap. Benchmark tests were ran on ARMv7-A and ARMv8-A
hardware targets.
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