| From: | Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Amonson, Paul D" <paul(dot)d(dot)amonson(at)intel(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, "Shankaran, Akash" <akash(dot)shankaran(at)intel(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Popcount optimization using AVX512 |
| Date: | 2024-03-29 16:22:11 |
| Message-ID: | 20240329162211.GB1106154@nathanxps13 |
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 10:59:40AM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> It might be nice if we conditionally built pg_popcount_avx512.o in autoconf
> builds, too, but AFAICT we still need to wrap most of that code with
> macros, so I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. I'll take another look at
> this...
If we assumed that TRY_POPCNT_FAST would be set and either
HAVE__GET_CPUID_COUNT or HAVE__CPUIDEX would be set whenever
USE_AVX512_POPCNT_WITH_RUNTIME_CHECK is set, we could probably remove the
surrounding macros and just compile pg_popcount_avx512.c conditionally
based on USE_AVX512_POPCNT_WITH_RUNTIME_CHECK. However, the surrounding
code seems to be pretty cautious about these assumptions (e.g., the CPUID
macros are checked before setting TRY_POPCNT_FAST), so this would stray
from the nearby precedent a bit.
A counterexample is the CRC32C code. AFAICT we assume the presence of
CPUID in that code (and #error otherwise). I imagine its probably safe to
assume the compiler understands CPUID if it understands AVX512 intrinsics,
but that is still mostly a guess.
--
Nathan Bossart
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