arm64: lib: improve copy_page to deal with 128 bytes at a time
We want to avoid lots of different copy_page implementations, settling
for something that is "good enough" everywhere and hopefully easy to
understand and maintain whilst we're at it.
This patch reworks our copy_page implementation based on discussions
with Cavium on the list and benchmarking on Cortex-A processors so that:
- The loop is unrolled to copy 128 bytes per iteration
- The reads are offset so that we read from the next 128-byte block
in the same iteration that we store the previous block
- Explicit prefetch instructions are removed for now, since they hurt
performance on CPUs with hardware prefetching
- The loop exit condition is calculated at the start of the loop
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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