buffers: don't use clib_memcpy for copying buffer indices

Should be faster this way if n_indices is not constant value

Change-Id: I6c34fd313daa2392199f3b9bd20d0cd6cf9ae21b
Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>

diff --git a/src/vlib/buffer_funcs.h b/src/vlib/buffer_funcs.h
index cc16fa7..f2ac0bd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/vlib/buffer_funcs.h
+++ b/src/vlib/buffer_funcs.h
@@ -101,7 +101,43 @@ vlib_buffer_get_default_data_size (vlib_main_t * vm)
 static_always_inline void
 vlib_buffer_copy_indices (u32 * dst, u32 * src, u32 n_indices)
 {
-  clib_memcpy_fast (dst, src, n_indices * sizeof (u32));
+#if defined(CLIB_HAVE_VEC512)
+  while (n_indices >= 16)
+    {
+      u32x16_store_unaligned (u32x16_load_unaligned (src), dst);
+      dst += 16;
+      src += 16;
+      n_indices -= 16;
+    }
+#endif
+
+#if defined(CLIB_HAVE_VEC256)
+  while (n_indices >= 8)
+    {
+      u32x8_store_unaligned (u32x8_load_unaligned (src), dst);
+      dst += 8;
+      src += 8;
+      n_indices -= 8;
+    }
+#endif
+
+#if defined(CLIB_HAVE_VEC128)
+  while (n_indices >= 4)
+    {
+      u32x4_store_unaligned (u32x4_load_unaligned (src), dst);
+      dst += 4;
+      src += 4;
+      n_indices -= 4;
+    }
+#endif
+
+  while (n_indices)
+    {
+      dst[0] = src[0];
+      dst += 1;
+      src += 1;
+      n_indices -= 1;
+    }
 }
 
 STATIC_ASSERT_OFFSET_OF (vlib_buffer_t, template_end, 64);