This commit adds a pure x86 assembly SIMD version of the FFT in libavutil/tx.
The design of this pure assembly FFT is pretty unconventional.
On the lowest level, instead of splitting the complex numbers into
real and imaginary parts, we keep complex numbers together but split
them in terms of parity. This saves a number of shuffles in each transform,
but more importantly, it splits each transform into two independent
paths, which we process using separate registers in parallel.
This allows us to keep all units saturated and lets us use all available
registers to avoid dependencies.
Moreover, it allows us to double the granularity of our per-load permutation,
skipping many expensive lookups and allowing us to use just 4 loads per register,
rather than 8, or in case FMA3 (and by extension, AVX2), use the vgatherdpd
instruction, which is at least as fast as 4 separate loads on old hardware,
and quite a bit faster on modern CPUs).
Higher up, we go for a bottom-up construction of large transforms, foregoing
the traditional per-transform call-return recursion chains. Instead, we always
start at the bottom-most basis transform (in this case, a 32-point transform),
and continue constructing larger and larger transforms until we return to the
top-most transform.
This way, we only touch the stack 3 times per a complete target transform:
once for the 1/2 length transform and two times for the 1/4 length transform.
The combination algorithm we use is a standard Split-Radix algorithm,
as used in our C code. Although a version with less operations exists
(Steven G. Johnson and Matteo Frigo's "A modified split-radix FFT with fewer
arithmetic operations", IEEE Trans. Signal Process. 55 (1), 111–119 (2007),
which is the one FFTW uses), it only has 2% less operations and requires at least 4x
the binary code (due to it needing 4 different paths to do a single transform).
That version also has other issues which prevent it from being implemented
with SIMD code as efficiently, which makes it lose the marginal gains it offered,
and cannot be performed bottom-up, requiring many recursive call-return chains,
whose overhead adds up.
We go through a lot of effort to minimize load/stores by keeping as much in
registers in between construcring transforms. This saves us around 32 cycles,
on paper, but in reality a lot more due to load/store aliasing (a load from a
memory location cannot be issued while there's a store pending, and there are
only so many (2 for Zen 3) load/store units in a CPU).
Also, we interleave coefficients during the last stage to save on a store+load
per register.
Each of the smallest, basis transforms (4, 8 and 16-point in our case)
has been extremely optimized. Our 8-point transform is barely 20 instructions
in total, beating our old implementation 8-point transform by 1 instruction.
Our 2x8-point transform is 23 instructions, beating our old implementation by
6 instruction and needing 50% less cycles. Our 16-point transform's combination
code takes slightly more instructions than our old implementation, but makes up
for it by requiring a lot less arithmetic operations.
Overall, the transform was optimized for the timings of Zen 3, which at the
time of writing has the most IPC from all documented CPUs. Shuffles were
preferred over arithmetic operations due to their 1/0.5 latency/throughput.
On average, this code is 30% faster than our old libavcodec implementation.
It's able to trade blows with the previously-untouchable FFTW on small transforms,
and due to its tiny size and better prediction, outdoes FFTW on larger transforms
by 11% on the largest currently supported size.
Some files currently rely on libavutil/cpu.h to include it for them;
yet said file won't use include it any more after the currently
deprecated functions are removed, so include attributes.h directly.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@outlook.com>
Some new warnings regarding use of empty macro parameters has
been added, so adjust some x86inc code to silence those.
Fixes part of ticket #8771
Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
When clang works in MSVC mode, it does have the _byteswap_ulong
builtin, but one has to include stdlib.h before using it.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
There are 32 pseudo-instructions for each floating-point comparison
instruction, but only 8 of them are actually valid in legacy-encoded mode.
The remaining 24 requires the use of VEX-encoded (v-prefixed) instructions
and can therefore be disregarded for this purpose.
AVX-512 consists of a plethora of different extensions, but in order to keep
things a bit more manageable we group together the following extensions
under a single baseline cpu flag which should cover SKL-X and future CPUs:
* AVX-512 Foundation (F)
* AVX-512 Conflict Detection Instructions (CD)
* AVX-512 Byte and Word Instructions (BW)
* AVX-512 Doubleword and Quadword Instructions (DQ)
* AVX-512 Vector Length Extensions (VL)
On x86-64 AVX-512 provides 16 additional vector registers, prefer using
those over existing ones since it allows us to avoid using `vzeroupper`
unless more than 16 vector registers are required. They also happen to
be volatile on Windows which means that we don't need to save and restore
existing xmm register contents unless more than 22 vector registers are
required.
Big thanks to Intel for their support.
Technically _tzcnt* intrinsics are only available when the BMI
instruction set is present. However the instruction encoding
degrades to "rep bsf" on older processors.
Clang for Windows debatably restricts the _tzcnt* instrinics behind
the __BMI__ architecture define, so check for its presence or
exclude the usage of these intrinics when clang is present.
See also:
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2015-November/183404.htmlhttps://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30506http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2016-October/051034.html
Signed-off-by: Dale Curtis <dalecurtis@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Oliver <protogonoi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
Improved version of VBROADCASTSS that works like the avx2 instruction.
Emulation of vpbroadcastd.
Horizontal sum HSUMPS that places the result in all elements.
Emulation of blendvps and pblendvb.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev@gmail.com>
Yasm:
src/libavfilter/x86/af_volume.asm:24: warning: Standard COFF does not support read-only data sections
src/libavfilter/x86/af_volume.asm:24: warning: Unrecognized qualifier `align'
Nasm:
src/libavfilter/x86/af_volume.asm:24: error: standard COFF does not support section alignment specification
src/libavutil/x86/x86inc.asm:92: ... from macro `SECTION_RODATA' defined here
Tested-by: Clément Bœsch <u@pkh.me>
Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
Due to a peculiarity in the ModR/M addressing encoding, the r12 and r13
registers sometimes requires an additional byte when used as a base register.
r14 and r15 doesn't have that issue, so prefer using them.
We overload the `call` instruction with a macro, but it would misbehave when
the macro argument wasn't a valid identifier. Fix it by explicitly checking
if the argument is an identifier.
Also do some small cosmetic changes: Drop pointless _MMX suffix from ABSD2
macro name, drop pointless check for MMX support, we always assume MMX is
available in our SIMD code, fix spelling.
Originally committed to x264 in 1637239a by Henrik Gramner who has
agreed to re-license it as LGPL. Original commit message follows.
x86: Avoid some bypass delays and false dependencies
A bypass delay of 1-3 clock cycles may occur on some CPUs when transitioning
between int and float domains, so try to avoid that if possible.
When allocating stack space with an alignment requirement that is larger
than the current stack alignment we need to store a copy of the original
stack pointer in order to be able to restore it later.
If we chose to use another register for this purpose we should not pick
eax/rax since it can be overwritten as a return value.
James Almer
Lynne
Andreas Rheinhardt
Henrik Gramner
Martin Storsjö
Jun Zhao
alexander schmid
Diego Biurrun
Henrik Gramner
James Darnley
Martin Vignali
Dale Curtis
Ivan Kalvachev
Anton Mitrofanov