On ARM platforms, accessing the PMU registers requires special user
access permissions. Since there is no other way to get accurate timers,
the current implementation of timers in FFmpeg rely on these registers.
Unfortunately, enabling user access to these registers on Linux is not
trivial, and generally involve compiling a random and unreliable github
kernel module, or patching somehow your kernel.
Such module is very unlikely to reach the upstream anytime soon. Quoting
Robin Murphin from ARM:
> Say you do give userspace direct access to the PMU; now run two or more
> programs at once that believe they can use the counters for their own
> "minimal-overhead" profiling. Have fun interpreting those results...
>
> And that's not even getting into the implications of scheduling across
> different CPUs, CPUidle, etc. where the PMU state is completely beyond
> userspace's control. In general, the plan to provide userspace with
> something which might happen to just about work in a few corner cases,
> but is meaningless, misleading or downright broken in all others, is to
> never do so.
As a result, the alternative is to use the Performance Monitoring Linux
API which makes use of these registers internally (assuming the PMU of
your ARM board is supported in the kernel, which is definitely not a
given...).
While the Linux API is obviously cross platform, it does have a
significant overhead which needs to be taken into account. As a result,
that mode is only weakly enabled on ARM platforms exclusively.
Note on the non flexibility of the implementation: the timers (native
FFmpeg vs Linux API) are selected at compilation time to prevent the
need of function calls, which would result in a negative impact on the
cycle counters.
Meant for DSP functions returning a float or double, as they'd fail if emms
is called after every run on x86_32.
Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
* commit 'effc1430b2fe5997d9d55bf28dc507c27125eb27':
Revert "checkasm: vp9dsp: Benchmark the dc-only version of idct_idct separately"
Merged-by: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
* commit 'c91d6a33f872574c95c8784277cf60ffcf6bff4f':
checkasm: aarch64: Add filler args to make sure all parameters are passed on the stack
Merged-by: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
* commit 'f1b3e131385176c3c9d9783b25047856a0dcebf6':
checkasm: aarch64: Clobber the stack before calling functions
Merged-by: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
* commit 'a05cc56124b4f1237f6355784de821e3290ddb44':
checkasm: arm/aarch64: Fix the amount of space reserved for stack parameters
Merged-by: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
* commit '22c3ab18646924ce24dc6017a9e882ff69689e40':
checkasm: Add test for huffyuvdsp add_bytes
huffyuvdsp is renamed to llviddsp to be consistent with our codebase.
Note: af607b7e07 wasn't actually required for this test since this
commit is not actually testing huffyuvdsp.
Merged-by: Clément Bœsch <u@pkh.me>
* commit '12004a9a7f20e44f4da2ee6c372d5e1794c8d6c5':
audiodsp/x86: yasmify vector_clipf_sse
audiodsp: reorder arguments for vector_clipf
Merged the version from Libav after a discussion with James Almer on
IRC:
19:22 <ubitux> jamrial: opinion on 12004a9a7f20e44f4da2ee6c372d5e1794c8d6c5?
19:23 <ubitux> it was apparently yasmified differently
19:23 <ubitux> (it depends on the previous commit arg shuffle)
19:24 <ubitux> i don't see the magic movsxdifnidn in your port btw
19:24 <ubitux> it's a port from 1d36defe94
19:25 <jamrial> seems better thanks to said arg shuffle
19:25 <jamrial> the loop is the same, but init is simpler
19:25 <jamrial> probably worth merging
19:25 <ubitux> OK
19:25 <ubitux> thanks
19:26 <jamrial> curious they didn't make len ptrdiff_t after the previous bunch of commits, heh
19:26 <ubitux> yeah indeed
Both commits are merged at the same time to prevent a conflict with our
existing yasmified ff_vector_clipf_sse.
Merged-by: Clément Bœsch <u@pkh.me>
* commit '71a0472114574993df7035f4de9aa007e03817b8':
checkasm: arm: report the first clobbered register in checkasm_checked_call
Also includes 446353ea18, 59aeed93e4, and 37961044c6 to avoid breaking
too much stuff.
Merged-by: Clément Bœsch <u@pkh.me>
This work is sponsored by, and copyright, Google.
Previously all subpartitions except the eob=1 (DC) case ran with
the same runtime:
Cortex A7 A8 A9 A53
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub16_add_neon: 3188.1 2435.4 2499.0 1969.0
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub32_add_neon: 18531.7 16582.3 14207.6 12000.3
By skipping individual 4x16 or 4x32 pixel slices in the first pass,
we reduce the runtime of these functions like this:
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub1_add_neon: 274.6 189.5 211.7 235.8
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub2_add_neon: 2064.0 1534.8 1719.4 1248.7
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub4_add_neon: 2135.0 1477.2 1736.3 1249.5
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub8_add_neon: 2446.7 1828.7 1993.6 1494.7
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub12_add_neon: 2832.4 2118.3 2266.5 1735.1
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub16_add_neon: 3211.7 2475.3 2523.5 1983.1
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub1_add_neon: 756.2 456.7 862.0 553.9
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub2_add_neon: 10682.2 8190.4 8539.2 6762.5
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub4_add_neon: 10813.5 8014.9 8518.3 6762.8
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub8_add_neon: 11859.6 9313.0 9347.4 7514.5
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub12_add_neon: 12946.6 10752.4 10192.2 8280.2
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub16_add_neon: 14074.6 11946.5 11001.4 9008.6
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub20_add_neon: 15269.9 13662.7 11816.1 9762.6
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub24_add_neon: 16327.9 14940.1 12626.7 10516.0
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub28_add_neon: 17462.7 15776.1 13446.2 11264.7
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub32_add_neon: 18575.5 17157.0 14249.3 12015.1
I.e. in general a very minor overhead for the full subpartition case due
to the additional loads and cmps, but a significant speedup for the cases
when we only need to process a small part of the actual input data.
In common VP9 content in a few inspected clips, 70-90% of the non-dc-only
16x16 and 32x32 IDCTs only have nonzero coefficients in the upper left
8x8 or 16x16 subpartitions respectively.
This is cherrypicked from libav commit
9c8bc74c2b.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
Supporting the system was a nice joke for the 9 release, but it has
run its course. Nowadays Plan 9 receives no testing and has no
practical usefulness.
This work is sponsored by, and copyright, Google.
Previously all subpartitions except the eob=1 (DC) case ran with
the same runtime:
Cortex A7 A8 A9 A53
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub16_add_neon: 3188.1 2435.4 2499.0 1969.0
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub32_add_neon: 18531.7 16582.3 14207.6 12000.3
By skipping individual 4x16 or 4x32 pixel slices in the first pass,
we reduce the runtime of these functions like this:
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub1_add_neon: 274.6 189.5 211.7 235.8
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub2_add_neon: 2064.0 1534.8 1719.4 1248.7
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub4_add_neon: 2135.0 1477.2 1736.3 1249.5
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub8_add_neon: 2446.7 1828.7 1993.6 1494.7
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub12_add_neon: 2832.4 2118.3 2266.5 1735.1
vp9_inv_dct_dct_16x16_sub16_add_neon: 3211.7 2475.3 2523.5 1983.1
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub1_add_neon: 756.2 456.7 862.0 553.9
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub2_add_neon: 10682.2 8190.4 8539.2 6762.5
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub4_add_neon: 10813.5 8014.9 8518.3 6762.8
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub8_add_neon: 11859.6 9313.0 9347.4 7514.5
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub12_add_neon: 12946.6 10752.4 10192.2 8280.2
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub16_add_neon: 14074.6 11946.5 11001.4 9008.6
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub20_add_neon: 15269.9 13662.7 11816.1 9762.6
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub24_add_neon: 16327.9 14940.1 12626.7 10516.0
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub28_add_neon: 17462.7 15776.1 13446.2 11264.7
vp9_inv_dct_dct_32x32_sub32_add_neon: 18575.5 17157.0 14249.3 12015.1
I.e. in general a very minor overhead for the full subpartition case due
to the additional loads and cmps, but a significant speedup for the cases
when we only need to process a small part of the actual input data.
In common VP9 content in a few inspected clips, 70-90% of the non-dc-only
16x16 and 32x32 IDCTs only have nonzero coefficients in the upper left
8x8 or 16x16 subpartitions respectively.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
