RE: Popcount optimization using AVX512

Amonson, Paul D <paul.d.amonson@intel.com>

From: "Amonson, Paul D" <paul.d.amonson@intel.com>
To: "Amonson, Paul D" <paul.d.amonson@intel.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, "Andres Freund" <andres@anarazel.de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, "Shankaran, Akash" <akash.shankaran@intel.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-03-28T22:29:47Z
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  1. Fix __attribute__((target(...))) usage.

  2. Use __attribute__((target(...))) for AVX-512 support.

  3. Fix code for probing availability of AVX-512.

  4. Optimize visibilitymap_count() with AVX-512 instructions.

  5. Optimize pg_popcount() with AVX-512 instructions.

  6. Inline pg_popcount() for small buffers.

  7. Avoid function call overhead of pg_popcount() in syslogger.c.

  8. Refactor code for setting pg_popcount* function pointers.

  9. Inline pg_popcount{32,64} into pg_popcount().

  10. Remove MSVC scripts

  11. Use ARMv8 CRC instructions where available.

  12. Use Intel SSE 4.2 CRC instructions where available.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amonson, Paul D <paul.d.amonson@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2024 3:03 PM
> To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
> ...
> I will review the new patch to see if there are anything that jumps out at me.

I see in the meson.build you added the new file twice?

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ pgport_sources = [
   'noblock.c',
   'path.c',
   'pg_bitutils.c',
+  'pg_popcount_avx512.c',
   'pg_strong_random.c',
   'pgcheckdir.c',
   'pgmkdirp.c',
@@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ replace_funcs_pos = [
   ['pg_crc32c_sse42', 'USE_SSE42_CRC32C_WITH_RUNTIME_CHECK', 'crc'],
   ['pg_crc32c_sse42_choose', 'USE_SSE42_CRC32C_WITH_RUNTIME_CHECK'],
   ['pg_crc32c_sb8', 'USE_SSE42_CRC32C_WITH_RUNTIME_CHECK'],
+  ['pg_popcount_avx512', 'USE_AVX512_POPCNT_WITH_RUNTIME_CHECK', 'avx512_popcnt'],

I was putting the file with special flags ONLY in the second section and all seemed to work. :)

Everything else seems good to me.

Thanks,
Paul