arm64: Select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
authorRobin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:25:47 +0000 (16:25 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Wed, 16 May 2018 10:50:52 +0000 (11:50 +0100)
commite75bef2a4fe259b779765a85589e92657d26fdc9
treedce158ed5840192161def2c998dd80f77307bb85
parent92faa7bea3e7592673109e32c75d50f8ce6d5ec6
arm64: Select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER

It is probably safe to assume that all Armv8-A implementations have a
multiplier whose efficiency is comparable or better than a sequence of
three or so register-dependent arithmetic instructions. Select
ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER to get ever-so-slightly nicer codegen in the
few dusty old corners which care.

In a contrived benchmark calling hweight64() in a loop, this does indeed
turn out to be a small win overall, with no measurable impact on
Cortex-A57 but about 5% performance improvement on Cortex-A53.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/Kconfig