[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] Implement memcmp using Intel SIMD instrinsics.

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 18 May 2015 13:01:43 -0700
Ravi Kerur <rkerur at gmail.com> wrote:

> This patch implements memcmp and use librte_hash as the first candidate
> to use rte_memcmp which is implemented using AVX/SSE intrinsics.
> 
> Tested with GCC(4.8.2) and Clang(3.4-1) compilers and both tests show better
> performance on Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz, Ubuntu 14.04
> x86_64 shows when compared to memcmp.
> 
> Changes in v3:
> Implement complete memcmp functionality.
> Implement functional and performance tests and add it to
> "make test" infrastructure code.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> Modified code to support only upto 64 bytes as that's the max bytes
> used by hash for comparison.
> 
> Changes in v1:
> Initial changes to support memcmp with support upto 128 bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Kerur <rkerur at gmail.com>

I think this idea is best taken over to glibc not here.
The issue is that Gcc default version of memcmp inline is bad and that
is what needs to be fixed.

See later discussion in email thread with Gcc intrinsic developer.