Optimize visibilitymap_count() with AVX-512 instructions.

Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>

Commit: 41c51f0c68b21b4603bd2a9c3d3ad017fdd22627
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-04-07T03:58:23Z
Releases: 17.0
Optimize visibilitymap_count() with AVX-512 instructions.

Commit 792752af4e added infrastructure for using AVX-512 intrinsic
functions, and this commit uses that infrastructure to optimize
visibilitymap_count().  Specificially, a new pg_popcount_masked()
function is introduced that applies a bitmask to every byte in the
buffer prior to calculating the population count, which is used to
filter out the all-visible or all-frozen bits as needed.  Platforms
without AVX-512 support should also see a nice speedup due to the
reduced number of calls to a function pointer.

Co-authored-by: Ants Aasma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BL1PR11MB5304097DF7EA81D04C33F3D1DCA6A%40BL1PR11MB5304.namprd11.prod.outlook.com

Files

PathChange+/−
src/backend/access/heap/visibilitymap.c modified +5 −20
src/include/port/pg_bitutils.h modified +34 −0
src/port/pg_bitutils.c modified +126 −0
src/port/pg_popcount_avx512.c modified +60 −0

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