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tilegx: optimize string copy_byte() internal function

Message ID 201410021559.s92Fx3GF020854@farm-0002.internal.tilera.com
State New
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Chris Metcalf Sept. 16, 2014, 12:02 a.m. UTC 
We can use one "shufflebytes" instruction instead of 3 "bfins"
instructions to optimize the string functions.
---
 sysdeps/tile/tilegx/string-endian.h | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

2014-10-02  Chris Metcalf  <cmetcalf@tilera.com>

	* sysdeps/tile/tilegx/string-endian.h (copy_byte): Optimize.
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diff --git a/sysdeps/tile/tilegx/string-endian.h b/sysdeps/tile/tilegx/string-endian.h
index 0c4d51766d70..47333891e072 100644
--- a/sysdeps/tile/tilegx/string-endian.h
+++ b/sysdeps/tile/tilegx/string-endian.h
@@ -36,12 +36,11 @@ 
 #define REVCZ(x) __insn_ctz(x)
 #endif
 
-/* Create eight copies of the byte in a uint64_t. */
+/* Create eight copies of the byte in a uint64_t.  Byte Shuffle uses
+   the bytes of srcB as the index into the dest vector to select a
+   byte.  With all indices of zero, the first byte is copied into all
+   the other bytes.  */
 static inline uint64_t copy_byte(uint8_t byte)
 {
-  uint64_t word = byte;
-  word = __insn_bfins(word, word, 8, 15);
-  word = __insn_bfins(word, word, 16, 31);
-  word = __insn_bfins(word, word, 32, 63);
-  return word;
+  return __insn_shufflebytes(byte, 0, 0);
 }