Re: Popcount optimization using AVX512

Devulapalli, Raghuveer <raghuveer.devulapalli@intel.com>

From: Raghuveer Devulapalli <raghuveer.devulapalli@intel.com>

To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org

Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

Date: 2024-10-29T19:23:58Z

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Fix __attribute__((target(...))) usage.
- 41b98ddb77bf 18.0 landed
Use __attribute__((target(...))) for AVX-512 support.
- f78667bd910e 18.0 landed
Fix code for probing availability of AVX-512.
- 598e0114a3b1 17.0 landed
Optimize visibilitymap_count() with AVX-512 instructions.
- 41c51f0c68b2 17.0 landed
Optimize pg_popcount() with AVX-512 instructions.
- 792752af4eb5 17.0 landed
Inline pg_popcount() for small buffers.
- deb1486c7d36 17.0 landed
Avoid function call overhead of pg_popcount() in syslogger.c.
- 4133c1f45c54 17.0 landed
Refactor code for setting pg_popcount* function pointers.
- 6687430c98f3 17.0 landed
Inline pg_popcount{32,64} into pg_popcount().
- cc4826dd5e52 17.0 landed
Remove MSVC scripts
- 1301c80b2167 17.0 cited
Use ARMv8 CRC instructions where available.
- f044d71e331d 11.0 cited
Use Intel SSE 4.2 CRC instructions where available.
- 3dc2d62d0486 9.5.0 cited

The following review has been posted through the commitfest application:
make installcheck-world:  tested, failed
Implements feature:       tested, failed
Spec compliant:           tested, failed
Documentation:            tested, failed

Changes LGTM. Makes the Makefile look clean. Built and ran tests with `make check` with gcc-13 on a ICX and gcc-11 on SKX. I built on top of this patch and converted SSE4.2 and AVX-512 CRC32C to use function attributes too.

The new status of this patch is: Ready for Committer