ARMv4 assembly pack: add Cortex-A15 performance data.
(Imported from upstream's e390ae50e0bc41676994c6fa23f7b65a8afc4d7f) Change-Id: Ifee85b0936c06c42cc7c09f8327d15fec51da48a Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/3832 Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
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# below and combine it with reduction algorithm from x86 module.
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# Performance improvement over previous version varies from 65% on
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# Snapdragon S4 to 110% on Cortex A9. In absolute terms Cortex A8
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# processes one byte in 8.45 cycles, A9 - in 10.2, Snapdragon S4 -
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# in 9.33.
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# processes one byte in 8.45 cycles, A9 - in 10.2, A15 - in 7.63,
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# Snapdragon S4 - in 9.33.
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#
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# Câmara, D.; Gouvêa, C. P. L.; López, J. & Dahab, R.: Fast Software
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# Polynomial Multiplication on ARM Processors using the NEON Engine.
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# is ~2.5x larger and there are some redundant instructions executed
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# when processing last block, improvement is not as big for smallest
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# blocks, only ~30%. Snapdragon S4 is a tad faster, 6.4 cycles per
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# byte, which is also >80% faster than integer-only code.
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# byte, which is also >80% faster than integer-only code. Cortex-A15
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# is even faster spending 5.6 cycles per byte outperforming integer-
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# only code by factor of 2.
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# May 2014.
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#
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# terms it's 22.6 cycles per byte, which is disappointing result.
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# Technical writers asserted that 3-way S4 pipeline can sustain
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# multiple NEON instructions per cycle, but dual NEON issue could
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# not be observed, and for NEON-only sequences IPC(*) was found to
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# be limited by 1:-( 0.33 and 0.66 were measured for sequences with
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# ILPs(*) of 1 and 2 respectively. This in turn means that you can
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# even find yourself striving, as I did here, for achieving IPC
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# adequate to one delivered by Cortex A8 [for reference, it's
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# 0.5 for ILP of 1, and 1 for higher ILPs].
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#
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# (*) ILP, instruction-level parallelism, how many instructions
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# *can* execute at the same time. IPC, instructions per cycle,
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# indicates how many instructions actually execute.
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# not be observed, see http://www.openssl.org/~appro/Snapdragon-S4.html
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# for further details. On side note Cortex-A15 processes one byte in
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# 16 cycles.
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# Byte order [in]dependence. =========================================
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#
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