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From a5d43894a6309d9468eefbbe1775dcda63ddf554 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 20:38:00 +0100
Subject: fbdev: Improve performance of sys_fillrect()
Git-commit: 7dbc515f5ca4b7867e34c0c4379591cb8b47d64f
Patch-mainline: v5.18-rc1
References: jsc#PED-1166 jsc#PED-1168 jsc#PED-1170 jsc#PED-1218 jsc#PED-1220 jsc#PED-1222 jsc#PED-1223 jsc#PED-1225

Improve the performance of sys_fillrect() by using word-aligned
32/64-bit mov instructions. While the code tried to implement this,
the compiler failed to create fast instructions. The resulting
binary instructions were even slower than cfb_fillrect(), which
uses the same algorithm, but operates on I/O memory.

A microbenchmark measures the average number of CPU cycles
for sys_fillrect() after a stabilizing period of a few minutes
(i7-4790, FullHD, simpledrm, kernel with debugging). The value
for CFB is given as a reference.

  sys_fillrect(), new:  26586 cycles
  sys_fillrect(), old: 166603 cycles
  cfb_fillrect():       41012 cycles

In the optimized case, sys_fillrect() is now ~6x faster than before
and ~1.5x faster than the CFB implementation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220223193804.18636-2-tzimmermann@suse.de
Acked-by: Patrik Jakobsson <pjakobsson@suse.de>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/core/sysfillrect.c | 16 +++-------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/sysfillrect.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/sysfillrect.c
index 33ee3d34f9d2..bcdcaeae6538 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/sysfillrect.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/sysfillrect.c
@@ -50,19 +50,9 @@ bitfill_aligned(struct fb_info *p, unsigned long *dst, int dst_idx,
 
 		/* Main chunk */
 		n /= bits;
-		while (n >= 8) {
-			*dst++ = pat;
-			*dst++ = pat;
-			*dst++ = pat;
-			*dst++ = pat;
-			*dst++ = pat;
-			*dst++ = pat;
-			*dst++ = pat;
-			*dst++ = pat;
-			n -= 8;
-		}
-		while (n--)
-			*dst++ = pat;
+		memset_l(dst, pat, n);
+		dst += n;
+
 		/* Trailing bits */
 		if (last)
 			*dst = comp(pat, *dst, last);
-- 
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