While debugging/profiling applications using perf or other tools, the
kernels appear scattered in the profile reports. This is because the labels
within the kernels are not local and each label is shown as a separate
function.
To avoid this, all the labels within the kernels are changed to local
labels.
Optimizations for APM's xgene-1 (aarch64).
1) general system updates to support armv8 better. Make all did not work, one needed to supply TARGET=ARMV8.
2) sgem 4x4 kernel in assembler using SIMD, and configuration changes to use it.
3) strmm 4x4 kernel in C. Since the sgem kernel does 4x4, the trmm kernel must also do 4xN.
Added Dave Nuechterlein to the contributors list.
Ashwin Sekhar T K
Ashwin Sekhar T K
Benedikt Huber