On ARM platforms, accessing the PMU registers requires special user
access permissions. Since there is no other way to get accurate timers,
the current implementation of timers in FFmpeg rely on these registers.
Unfortunately, enabling user access to these registers on Linux is not
trivial, and generally involve compiling a random and unreliable github
kernel module, or patching somehow your kernel.
Such module is very unlikely to reach the upstream anytime soon. Quoting
Robin Murphin from ARM:
> Say you do give userspace direct access to the PMU; now run two or more
> programs at once that believe they can use the counters for their own
> "minimal-overhead" profiling. Have fun interpreting those results...
>
> And that's not even getting into the implications of scheduling across
> different CPUs, CPUidle, etc. where the PMU state is completely beyond
> userspace's control. In general, the plan to provide userspace with
> something which might happen to just about work in a few corner cases,
> but is meaningless, misleading or downright broken in all others, is to
> never do so.
As a result, the alternative is to use the Performance Monitoring Linux
API which makes use of these registers internally (assuming the PMU of
your ARM board is supported in the kernel, which is definitely not a
given...).
While the Linux API is obviously cross platform, it does have a
significant overhead which needs to be taken into account. As a result,
that mode is only weakly enabled on ARM platforms exclusively.
Note on the non flexibility of the implementation: the timers (native
FFmpeg vs Linux API) are selected at compilation time to prevent the
need of function calls, which would result in a negative impact on the
cycle counters.
This reverts commit 547db1eaec.
This commit wasn't supposed to be pushed (yet) since it hasn't
been reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Meant for DSP functions returning a float or double, as they'd fail if emms
is called after every run on x86_32.
Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
Loads from this strictly doesn't require alignment, but specify it
just for consistency with the arm version.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Previously, all link-time dependencies were added for all libraries,
resulting in bogus link-time dependencies since not all dependencies
are shared across libraries. Also, in some cases like libavutil, not
all dependencies were taken into account, resulting in some cases of
underlinking.
To address all this mess a machinery is added for tracking which
dependency belongs to which library component and then leveraged
to determine correct dependencies for all individual libraries.
This work is sponsored by, and copyright, Google.
Previously all subpartitions except the eob=1 (DC) case ran with
the same runtime:
Cortex A7 A8 A9 A53
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub16_add_neon: 3188.1 2435.4 2499.0 1969.0
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub32_add_neon: 18531.7 16582.3 14207.6 12000.3
By skipping individual 4x16 or 4x32 pixel slices in the first pass,
we reduce the runtime of these functions like this:
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub1_add_neon: 274.6 189.5 211.7 235.8
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub2_add_neon: 2064.0 1534.8 1719.4 1248.7
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub4_add_neon: 2135.0 1477.2 1736.3 1249.5
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub8_add_neon: 2446.7 1828.7 1993.6 1494.7
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub12_add_neon: 2832.4 2118.3 2266.5 1735.1
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub16_add_neon: 3211.7 2475.3 2523.5 1983.1
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub1_add_neon: 756.2 456.7 862.0 553.9
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub2_add_neon: 10682.2 8190.4 8539.2 6762.5
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub4_add_neon: 10813.5 8014.9 8518.3 6762.8
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub8_add_neon: 11859.6 9313.0 9347.4 7514.5
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub12_add_neon: 12946.6 10752.4 10192.2 8280.2
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub16_add_neon: 14074.6 11946.5 11001.4 9008.6
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub20_add_neon: 15269.9 13662.7 11816.1 9762.6
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub24_add_neon: 16327.9 14940.1 12626.7 10516.0
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub28_add_neon: 17462.7 15776.1 13446.2 11264.7
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub32_add_neon: 18575.5 17157.0 14249.3 12015.1
I.e. in general a very minor overhead for the full subpartition case due
to the additional loads and cmps, but a significant speedup for the cases
when we only need to process a small part of the actual input data.
In common VP9 content in a few inspected clips, 70-90% of the non-dc-only
16x16 and 32x32 IDCTs only have nonzero coefficients in the upper left
8x8 or 16x16 subpartitions respectively.
This is cherrypicked from libav commit
9c8bc74c2b.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
Supporting the system was a nice joke for the 9 release, but it has
run its course. Nowadays Plan 9 receives no testing and has no
practical usefulness.
This work is sponsored by, and copyright, Google.
Previously all subpartitions except the eob=1 (DC) case ran with
the same runtime:
Cortex A7 A8 A9 A53
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub16_add_neon: 3188.1 2435.4 2499.0 1969.0
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub32_add_neon: 18531.7 16582.3 14207.6 12000.3
By skipping individual 4x16 or 4x32 pixel slices in the first pass,
we reduce the runtime of these functions like this:
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub1_add_neon: 274.6 189.5 211.7 235.8
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub2_add_neon: 2064.0 1534.8 1719.4 1248.7
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub4_add_neon: 2135.0 1477.2 1736.3 1249.5
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub8_add_neon: 2446.7 1828.7 1993.6 1494.7
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub12_add_neon: 2832.4 2118.3 2266.5 1735.1
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub16_add_neon: 3211.7 2475.3 2523.5 1983.1
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub1_add_neon: 756.2 456.7 862.0 553.9
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub2_add_neon: 10682.2 8190.4 8539.2 6762.5
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub4_add_neon: 10813.5 8014.9 8518.3 6762.8
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub8_add_neon: 11859.6 9313.0 9347.4 7514.5
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub12_add_neon: 12946.6 10752.4 10192.2 8280.2
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub16_add_neon: 14074.6 11946.5 11001.4 9008.6
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub20_add_neon: 15269.9 13662.7 11816.1 9762.6
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub24_add_neon: 16327.9 14940.1 12626.7 10516.0
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub28_add_neon: 17462.7 15776.1 13446.2 11264.7
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub32_add_neon: 18575.5 17157.0 14249.3 12015.1
I.e. in general a very minor overhead for the full subpartition case due
to the additional loads and cmps, but a significant speedup for the cases
when we only need to process a small part of the actual input data.
In common VP9 content in a few inspected clips, 70-90% of the non-dc-only
16x16 and 32x32 IDCTs only have nonzero coefficients in the upper left
8x8 or 16x16 subpartitions respectively.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This reverts commit 81d7f0bbca.
Instead of just benchmarking dc separately, test all relevant subparts
(in the next commit).
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
The dc-only mode is already checked to work correctly above, but this
allows benchmarking this mode for performance tuning, and allows making
sure that it actually is correctly hooked up.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Michael Niedermayer
James Almer
Martin Vignali
Martin Storsjö
Clément Bœsch
Matthieu Bouron
Diego Biurrun
Clément Bœsch
Ronald S. Bultje