Unlike on Win32, it is not necessary to have underscores before
function names. Calling conventions are also different.

This can speed up the tests on travis-ci, and we don't care
about the measurements accuracy there.

Add missing include for ioctl() on linux

There is no need for the -DBENCH_FRAMEBUFFER hack anymore.

Keep doubling the number of loop iterations until the duration
of test run exceeds 0.5s and also start from 1 loop iteration
instead of 16. In the case if the memory bandwidth is extremely
low (for example, running tests with the framebuffer), it makes
the test duration reasonable. Also in the case if the memory
bandwidth is extremely high, this approach reduces the periodic
gettimeofday() calls overhead.

This simplifies the code a lot and allows to use different tables
for different use cases.

Because some processors are sensitive to the order of memory
accesses, add a few more variants of memory buffer backwards
copy which do sequential memory writes in the forward direction
inside of each sub-block of certain size. The most interesting
sizes of such sub-blocks are 32 and 64 bytes, because they match
the most frequently used CPU cache line sizes.

Example reports:

== ARM Cortex A7 ==
 C copy backwards                                     :    266.5 MB/s
 C copy backwards (32 byte blocks)                    :   1015.6 MB/s
 C copy backwards (64 byte blocks)                    :   1045.7 MB/s
 C copy                                               :   1033.3 MB/s

== ARM Cortex A15 ==
 C copy backwards                                     :   1438.5 MB/s
 C copy backwards (32 byte blocks)                    :   1497.5 MB/s
 C copy backwards (64 byte blocks)                    :   2643.2 MB/s
 C copy                                               :   2985.8 MB/s

This is expected to test the ability to do write combining for
scattered writes and detect any possible performance penalties.

Example reports:

== ARM Cortex A7 ==
 C fill                                               :   4011.5 MB/s
 C fill (shuffle within 16 byte blocks)               :   4112.2 MB/s (0.3%)
 C fill (shuffle within 32 byte blocks)               :    333.9 MB/s
 C fill (shuffle within 64 byte blocks)               :    336.6 MB/s

== ARM Cortex A15 ==
 C fill                                               :   6065.2 MB/s (0.4%)
 C fill (shuffle within 16 byte blocks)               :   2152.0 MB/s
 C fill (shuffle within 32 byte blocks)               :   2150.7 MB/s
 C fill (shuffle within 64 byte blocks)               :   2238.2 MB/s

== ARM Cortex A53 ==
 C fill                                               :   3080.8 MB/s (0.2%)
 C fill (shuffle within 16 byte blocks)               :   3080.7 MB/s
 C fill (shuffle within 32 byte blocks)               :   3079.2 MB/s
 C fill (shuffle within 64 byte blocks)               :   3080.4 MB/s

== Intel Atom N450 ==
 C fill                                               :   1554.9 MB/s
 C fill (shuffle within 16 byte blocks)               :   1554.5 MB/s
 C fill (shuffle within 32 byte blocks)               :   1553.9 MB/s
 C fill (shuffle within 64 byte blocks)               :   1554.4 MB/s

See https://github.com/ssvb/tinymembench/issues/7

The C compiler may attempt to reorder read and write operations when
accessing the source and destination buffers. So instead of sequential
memory accesses we may get something like a "drunk master style"
memory access pattern. Certain processors, such as ARM Cortex-A7,
do not like such memory access pattern very much and it causes
a major performance drop. The actual access pattern is unpredictable
and is sensitive to the compiler version, optimization flags and
even sometimes on some changes in unrelated parts of source code.

So use the volatile keyword for the destination pointer in order
to resolve this problem and make C benchmarks more deterministic.

See https://github.com/ssvb/tinymembench/issues/7

The old variant was just a copy of aligned_block_copy_pf32.

While every source file already had a MIT license notice, having
the LICENSE file in the top level directory is a good idea too.
This resolves #5

It is disabled by default and can be only activated by compiling
the benchmark with -DBENCH_FRAMBUFFER in CFLAGS.

Basically it can be used to check how the processor can handle
uncached reads (assuming integrated GPU and the framebuffer
in the system memory).

Use a fixed prefetch distance 512 bytes for everything. Also make
sure that 32 byte prefetch step really means a single PLD instruction
executed per 32 byte data chunk. And likewise for 64 byte prefetch.
We don't care too much about achieving peak performance, consistency
and predictability is more important.

This benchmark exposes some problems or misconfiguration in Allwinner A20
(Cortex-A7) memory subsystem. If we do reads from two separate buffers at
once, then the performance drops quite significantly. It is documented that
the automatic prefetcher in Cortex-A7 can only track a single data stream:

    http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0464f/CHDIGCEB.html

However there is still something wrong even when using explicit PLD
prefetch. Here are some results:

 NEON read                                            :   1256.7 MB/s
 NEON read prefetched (32 bytes step)                 :   1346.4 MB/s (0.4%)
 NEON read prefetched (64 bytes step)                 :   1439.6 MB/s (0.4%)
 NEON read 2 data streams                             :    371.3 MB/s (0.3%)
 NEON read 2 data streams prefetched (32 bytes step)  :    687.5 MB/s (0.5%)
 NEON read 2 data streams prefetched (64 bytes step)  :    703.2 MB/s (0.4%)

Normally we would expect that the memory bandwidth should remain roughly
the same no matter how many data streams we are reading at once. But even
reading two data streams is enough to demonstrate big troubles.

Being able to simultaneously read from multiple data streams efficiently
is important for 2D graphics (alpha blending), colorspace conversion
(Planar YUV -> packed RGB) and many other things.

Now we try to run two rounds of test: one with huge pages
explicitly disabled, and another one with huge pages enabled.

Additionally, the minimal block size used for latency benchmarks
is now 1024. Testing smaller blocks is just a waste of time.

Just select a random offset in order to mitigate the unpredictability
of cache associativity effects when dealing with different physical
memory fragmentation (for PIPT caches). We are reporting the "best"
measured latency, some offsets may be better than the others.

/tmp/ccej9DYL.s:47: Rd and Rm should be different in mla (repeated)
/tmp/ccej9DYL.s:754: Rd and Rm should be different in mla (repeated)
/tmp/ccej9DYL.s:720: Error: bad immediate value for offset (5328)
/tmp/ccej9DYL.s:724: Error: bad immediate value for offset (5316)
/tmp/ccej9DYL.s:725: Error: bad immediate value for offset (5316)

https://github.com/ssvb/tinymembench/issues/1