Bug 1871387 - glibc: Improve IBM POWER9 architecture performance
Summary: glibc: Improve IBM POWER9 architecture performance
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: glibc
Version: 8.4
Hardware: ppc64le
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: Arjun Shankar
QA Contact: Sergey Kolosov
Zuzana Zoubkova
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Blocks: 1877115
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Reported: 2020-08-23 02:00 UTC by Carlos O'Donell
Modified: 2023-07-18 14:30 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: glibc-2.28-129.el8
Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
.`glibc` now provides improved performance on IBM POWER9 This update introduces new implementations of the functions `strlen`, `strcpy`, `stpcpy`, and `rawmemchr` for IBM POWER9. As a result, these functions now execute faster on IBM POWER9 hardware which leads to performance gains.
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Last Closed: 2021-05-18 14:36:34 UTC
Type: Enhancement
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Description Carlos O'Donell 2020-08-23 02:00:14 UTC 
Backport the following commits to improve IBM POWER architecture support:

39037048502d52ab6422c18f2d178d6228d2c7b9
powerpc: Optimized strcpy for POWER9

aa70d0563256b8ea053203177f756bca33b5cf37
powerpc: Optimized stpcpy for POWER9

765de945efc5d5602999b2999fe8abdf04881370
powerpc: Optimized rawmemchr for POWER9

a23bd00f9d810c28d9e83ce1d7cf53968375937d
powerpc64le: add optimized strlen for P9
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 14:36:34 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1585
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