commit 690ce8672c090709924b924af1e49ffc38d8f00c
author Lijian.Zhang <Lijian.Zhang@arm.com> Tue Feb 18 19:58:19 2020 +0800
committer Damjan Marion <dmarion@me.com> Thu Apr 30 10:18:39 2020 +0000
tree 68bb72374590e850fe0958fba2a236f83f8ac171
parent e09912001f1e62a39b033b3e1c14854dc7c6f52f

build: support arch-specific compiling for Neoverse N1

Enable arch-specific compiling and dynamic optimal function selection
for Arm Neoverse-N1.

Support for -march=armv8.2-a+crc+crypto -mtune=neoverse-n1 for
Neoverse-N1 is added starting from gcc-9.2.0

                    without change  with change improvement
[L2 - 1x flows]     11.00 Mpps      11.46 Mpps  4%
[L2 - 10Kx flows]   6.83 Mpps       7.17 Mpps   5%
[L3 - 1x flows]     10.39 Mpps      10.78 Mpps  3.7%
[L3 - 10Kx flows]   6.67 Mpps       7.19 Mpps   7.8%

Type: feature

Change-Id: I5d24d17820b3dd6909b913202e8c31fc7d48650f
Signed-off-by: Lijian Zhang <Lijian.Zhang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jieqiang Wang <Jieqiang.Wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Govindarajan Mohandoss <Govindarajan.Mohandoss@arm.com>

src/vppinfra/cpu.h

diff --git a/src/vppinfra/cpu.h b/src/vppinfra/cpu.h
index 48c68a1..7bd5dfe 100644
--- a/src/vppinfra/cpu.h
+++ b/src/vppinfra/cpu.h
@@ -322,6 +322,8 @@
 #define AARCH64_CPU_PART_QDF24XX            0xc00
 #define AARCH64_CPU_IMPLEMENTER_CORTEXA72   0x41
 #define AARCH64_CPU_PART_CORTEXA72          0xd08
+#define AARCH64_CPU_IMPLEMENTER_NEOVERSEN1  0x41
+#define AARCH64_CPU_PART_NEOVERSEN1         0xd0c
 
 static inline int
 clib_cpu_march_priority_thunderx2t99 ()
@@ -350,6 +352,15 @@
   return -1;
 }
 
+static inline int
+clib_cpu_march_priority_neoversen1 ()
+{
+  if ((AARCH64_CPU_IMPLEMENTER_NEOVERSEN1 == clib_cpu_implementer ()) &&
+      (AARCH64_CPU_PART_NEOVERSEN1 == clib_cpu_part ()))
+    return 10;
+  return -1;
+}
+
 #ifdef CLIB_MARCH_VARIANT
 #define CLIB_MARCH_FN_PRIORITY() CLIB_MARCH_SFX(clib_cpu_march_priority)()
 #else