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The implementation tries to have smart handling of cases
where no pixels need the full filtering for the 8/16 width
filters, skipping both calculation and writeback of the
unmodified pixels in those cases. The actual effect of this
is hard to test with checkasm though, since it tests the
full filtering, and the benefit depends on how many filtered
blocks use the shortcut.
Examples of relative speedup compared to the C version, from checkasm:
Cortex A7 A8 A9 A53
vp9_loop_filter_h_4_8_neon: 2.72 2.68 1.78 3.15
vp9_loop_filter_h_8_8_neon: 2.36 2.38 1.70 2.91
vp9_loop_filter_h_16_8_neon: 1.80 1.89 1.45 2.01
vp9_loop_filter_h_16_16_neon: 2.81 2.78 2.18 3.16
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_h_44_16_neon: 2.65 2.67 1.93 3.05
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_h_48_16_neon: 2.46 2.38 1.81 2.85
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_h_84_16_neon: 2.50 2.41 1.73 2.85
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_h_88_16_neon: 2.77 2.66 1.96 3.23
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_v_44_16_neon: 4.28 4.46 3.22 5.70
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_v_48_16_neon: 3.92 4.00 3.03 5.19
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_v_84_16_neon: 3.97 4.31 2.98 5.33
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_v_88_16_neon: 3.91 4.19 3.06 5.18
vp9_loop_filter_v_4_8_neon: 4.53 4.47 3.31 6.05
vp9_loop_filter_v_8_8_neon: 3.58 3.99 2.92 5.17
vp9_loop_filter_v_16_8_neon: 3.40 3.50 2.81 4.68
vp9_loop_filter_v_16_16_neon: 4.66 4.41 3.74 6.02
The speedup vs C code is around 2-6x. The numbers are quite
inconclusive though, since the checkasm test runs multiple filterings
on top of each other, so later rounds might end up with different
codepaths (different decisions on which filter to apply, based
on input pixel differences). Disabling the early-exit in the asm
doesn't give a fair comparison either though, since the C code
only does the necessary calcuations for each row.
Based on START_TIMER/STOP_TIMER wrapping around a few individual
functions, the speedup vs C code is around 4-9x.
This is pretty similar in runtime to the corresponding routines
in libvpx. (This is comparing vpx_lpf_vertical_16_neon,
vpx_lpf_horizontal_edge_8_neon and vpx_lpf_horizontal_edge_16_neon
to vp9_loop_filter_h_16_8_neon, vp9_loop_filter_v_16_8_neon
and vp9_loop_filter_v_16_16_neon - note that the naming of horizonal
and vertical is flipped between the libraries.)
In order to have stable, comparable numbers, the early exits in both
asm versions were disabled, forcing the full filtering codepath.
Cortex A7 A8 A9 A53
vp9_loop_filter_h_16_8_neon: 597.2 472.0 482.4 415.0
libvpx vpx_lpf_vertical_16_neon: 626.0 464.5 470.7 445.0
vp9_loop_filter_v_16_8_neon: 500.2 422.5 429.7 295.0
libvpx vpx_lpf_horizontal_edge_8_neon: 586.5 414.5 415.6 383.2
vp9_loop_filter_v_16_16_neon: 905.0 784.7 791.5 546.0
libvpx vpx_lpf_horizontal_edge_16_neon: 1060.2 751.7 743.5 685.2
Our version is consistently faster on on A7 and A53, marginally slower on
A8, and sometimes faster, sometimes slower on A9 (marginally slower in all
three tests in this particular test run).
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This work is sponsored by, and copyright, Google.
For the transforms up to 8x8, we can fit all the data (including
temporaries) in registers and just do a straightforward transform
of all the data. For 16x16, we do a transform of 4x16 pixels in
4 slices, using a temporary buffer. For 32x32, we transform 4x32
pixels at a time, in two steps of 4x16 pixels each.
Examples of relative speedup compared to the C version, from checkasm:
Cortex A7 A8 A9 A53
vp9_inv_adst_adst_4x4_add_neon: 3.39 5.83 4.17 4.01
vp9_inv_adst_adst_8x8_add_neon: 3.79 4.86 4.23 3.98
vp9_inv_adst_adst_16x16_add_neon: 3.33 4.36 4.11 4.16
vp9_inv_dct_dct_4x4_add_neon: 4.06 6.16 4.59 4.46
vp9_inv_dct_dct_8x8_add_neon: 4.61 6.01 4.98 4.86
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_add_neon: 3.35 3.44 3.36 3.79
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_add_neon: 3.89 3.50 3.79 4.42
vp9_inv_wht_wht_4x4_add_neon: 3.22 5.13 3.53 3.77
Thus, the speedup vs C code is around 3-6x.
This is mostly marginally faster than the corresponding routines
in libvpx on most cores, tested with their 32x32 idct (compared to
vpx_idct32x32_1024_add_neon). These numbers are slightly in libvpx's
favour since their version doesn't clear the input buffer like ours
do (although the effect of that on the total runtime probably is
negligible.)
Cortex A7 A8 A9 A53
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_add_neon: 18436.8 16874.1 14235.1 11988.9
libvpx vpx_idct32x32_1024_add_neon 20789.0 13344.3 15049.9 13030.5
Only on the Cortex A8, the libvpx function is faster. On the other cores,
ours is slightly faster even though ours has got source block clearing
integrated.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This fixes crashes since 557c1675cf in linux PIC builds.
Previously, movrelx silently used r12 as helper register, which
doesn't work when r12 is the destination register.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This work is sponsored by, and copyright, Google.
The speedup for the large horizontal filters is surprisingly
big on A7 and A53, while there's a minor slowdown (almost within
measurement noise) on A8 and A9.
Cortex A7 A8 A9 A53
orig:
vp9_put_8tap_smooth_64h_neon: 20270.0 14447.3 19723.9 10910.9
new:
vp9_put_8tap_smooth_64h_neon: 20165.8 14466.5 19730.2 10668.8
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This fixes errors like this when building non-pic binaries with armv6
as baseline:
Error: invalid literal constant: pool needs to be closer
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This work is sponsored by, and copyright, Google.
The filter coefficients are signed values, where the product of the
multiplication with one individual filter coefficient doesn't
overflow a 16 bit signed value (the largest filter coefficient is
127). But when the products are accumulated, the resulting sum can
overflow the 16 bit signed range. Instead of accumulating in 32 bit,
we accumulate the largest product (either index 3 or 4) last with a
saturated addition.
(The VP8 MC asm does something similar, but slightly simpler, by
accumulating each half of the filter separately. In the VP9 MC
filters, each half of the filter can also overflow though, so the
largest component has to be handled individually.)
Examples of relative speedup compared to the C version, from checkasm:
Cortex A7 A8 A9 A53
vp9_avg4_neon: 1.71 1.15 1.42 1.49
vp9_avg8_neon: 2.51 3.63 3.14 2.58
vp9_avg16_neon: 2.95 6.76 3.01 2.84
vp9_avg32_neon: 3.29 6.64 2.85 3.00
vp9_avg64_neon: 3.47 6.67 3.14 2.80
vp9_avg_8tap_smooth_4h_neon: 3.22 4.73 2.76 4.67
vp9_avg_8tap_smooth_4hv_neon: 3.67 4.76 3.28 4.71
vp9_avg_8tap_smooth_4v_neon: 5.52 7.60 4.60 6.31
vp9_avg_8tap_smooth_8h_neon: 6.22 9.04 5.12 9.32
vp9_avg_8tap_smooth_8hv_neon: 6.38 8.21 5.72 8.17
vp9_avg_8tap_smooth_8v_neon: 9.22 12.66 8.15 11.10
vp9_avg_8tap_smooth_64h_neon: 7.02 10.23 5.54 11.58
vp9_avg_8tap_smooth_64hv_neon: 6.76 9.46 5.93 9.40
vp9_avg_8tap_smooth_64v_neon: 10.76 14.13 9.46 13.37
vp9_put4_neon: 1.11 1.47 1.00 1.21
vp9_put8_neon: 1.23 2.17 1.94 1.48
vp9_put16_neon: 1.63 4.02 1.73 1.97
vp9_put32_neon: 1.56 4.92 2.00 1.96
vp9_put64_neon: 2.10 5.28 2.03 2.35
vp9_put_8tap_smooth_4h_neon: 3.11 4.35 2.63 4.35
vp9_put_8tap_smooth_4hv_neon: 3.67 4.69 3.25 4.71
vp9_put_8tap_smooth_4v_neon: 5.45 7.27 4.49 6.52
vp9_put_8tap_smooth_8h_neon: 5.97 8.18 4.81 8.56
vp9_put_8tap_smooth_8hv_neon: 6.39 7.90 5.64 8.15
vp9_put_8tap_smooth_8v_neon: 9.03 11.84 8.07 11.51
vp9_put_8tap_smooth_64h_neon: 6.78 9.48 4.88 10.89
vp9_put_8tap_smooth_64hv_neon: 6.99 8.87 5.94 9.56
vp9_put_8tap_smooth_64v_neon: 10.69 13.30 9.43 14.34
For the larger 8tap filters, the speedup vs C code is around 5-14x.
This is significantly faster than libvpx's implementation of the same
functions, at least when comparing the put_8tap_smooth_64 functions
(compared to vpx_convolve8_horiz_neon and vpx_convolve8_vert_neon from
libvpx).
Absolute runtimes from checkasm:
Cortex A7 A8 A9 A53
vp9_put_8tap_smooth_64h_neon: 20150.3 14489.4 19733.6 10863.7
libvpx vpx_convolve8_horiz_neon: 52623.3 19736.4 21907.7 25027.7
vp9_put_8tap_smooth_64v_neon: 14455.0 12303.9 13746.4 9628.9
libvpx vpx_convolve8_vert_neon: 42090.0 17706.2 17659.9 16941.2
Thus, on the A9, the horizontal filter is only marginally faster than
libvpx, while our version is significantly faster on the other cores,
and the vertical filter is significantly faster on all cores. The
difference is especially large on the A7.
The libvpx implementation does the accumulation in 32 bit, which
probably explains most of the differences.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
This avoids SIMD-optimized functions having to sign-extend their
line size argument manually to be able to do pointer arithmetic.
Also adjust parameter names to be "stride" everywhere.
This avoids SIMD-optimized functions having to sign-extend their
stride argument manually to be able to do pointer arithmetic.
Also adjust parameter names to be "stride" everywhere.
GNU as evaluates true as '-1' while Apple's variant and llvm's internal
assembler evaluate it as '1'. The best way to avoid this madness is to
eliminate boolean expressions instead of trying to fix it with
preprocessor directives. Use a direct formula to calculate the
required temporary space on the stack in
ff_put_vp8_{epel,bilin}{4,8,16}_h[246]v[246]_armv6().
Fixes a checkasm segfault in vp8dsp.mc when using llvm's internal
assembler for a non-Apple target.
Restore alphabetical order in lists, break overly long lines, do some
prettyprinting, add some explanatory section comments, group parts
together that belong together logically.
Quite a bit faster than int32_to_float_fmul_array8_c calling
ff_int32_to_float_fmul_scalar_neon through FmtConvertContext.
Number of cycles per int32_to_float_fmul_array8 call while decoding
padded.dts on exynos5422:
before after change
cortex-a7: 1270 951 -25%
cortex-a15: 434 285 -34%
checkasm --bench cycle counts: cortex-a15 cortex-a7
int32_to_float_fmul_array8_c: 1730.4 4384.5
int32_to_float_fmul_array8_neon_c: 571.5 1694.3
int32_to_float_fmul_array8_neon: 374.0 1448.8
Interesting are the differences between
int32_to_float_fmul_array8_neon_c and int32_to_float_fmul_array8_neon.
The former is current behaviour of calling
ff_int32_to_float_fmul_scalar_neon repeatedly from the c function,
The raw numbers differ since checkasm uses different lengths than the
dca decoder.
The vector mode was deprecated in ARMv7-A/VFPv3 and various cpu
implementations do not support it in hardware. Vector mode code will
depending the OS either be emulated in software or result in an illegal
instruction on cpus which does not support it. This was not really
problem in practice since NEON implementations of the same functions are
preferred. It will however become a problem for checkasm which tests
every cpu flag separately.
Since this is a cpu feature newer cpu do not support anymore the
behaviour of this flag differs from the other flags. It can be only
activated by runtime cpu feature selection.
Don't include the function pointer table in the code segment
in arm mode.
This shouldn't have any significant performance effect. It does
end up as a few more instructions than before, for ARM, but
only at the entry to this function, not within the fft functions
themselves.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
These function pointers already existed in the ARM code. Adding them globally
allows calls to the function pointers to access arch-optimized versions of the
functions transparently.
