Re: Use __attribute__((target(sse4.2))) for SSE42 CRC32C

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: "Devulapalli, Raghuveer" <raghuveer.devulapalli@intel.com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-11-07T21:00:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
+    __attribute__((target("sse4.2")))

These need to be surrounded with

	#if defined(__has_attribute) && __has_attribute (target)

so that we still attempt the check on compilers that don't support it
(e.g., MSVC).

 # Check for Intel SSE 4.2 intrinsics to do CRC calculations.
 #
-# First check if the _mm_crc32_u8 and _mm_crc32_u64 intrinsics can be used
-# with the default compiler flags. If not, check if adding the -msse4.2
-# flag helps. CFLAGS_CRC is set to -msse4.2 if that's required.
+# Check if the _mm_crc32_u8 and _mm_crc32_u64 intrinsics can be used
+# with the __attribute__((target("sse4.2"))).
 PGAC_SSE42_CRC32_INTRINSICS([])
-if test x"$pgac_sse42_crc32_intrinsics" != x"yes"; then
-  PGAC_SSE42_CRC32_INTRINSICS([-msse4.2])
-fi

IIUC this means we will never set USE_SSE42_CRC32C_WITH_RUNTIME_CHECK.  To
maintain the existing behavior, I think we need to still perform two
configure tests (one with __attribute__((target(...))) and another
without), and then we can choose whether to set USE_SSE42_CRC32C or
USE_SSE42_CRC32C_WITH_RUNTIME_CHECK based on the results.

+  'pg_crc32c_sse42_choose.c',
+  'pg_crc32c_sse42.c',

Can we combine these?

-- 
nathan



Commits

  1. Use __attribute__((target(...))) for SSE4.2 CRC-32C support.

  2. Move check for USE_AVX512_POPCNT_WITH_RUNTIME_CHECK.

  3. Remove MSVC scripts