cutils: add avx2 instruction optimization

buffer_find_nonzero_offset() is a hot function during live migration.
Now it use SSE2 instructions for optimization. For platform supports
AVX2 instructions, use AVX2 instructions for optimization can help
to improve the performance of buffer_find_nonzero_offset() about 30%
comparing to SSE2.

Live migration can be faster with this optimization, the test result
shows that for an 8GiB RAM idle guest just boots, this patch can help
to shorten the total live migration time about 6%.

This patch use the ifunc mechanism to select the proper function when
running, for platform supports AVX2, execute the AVX2 instructions,
else, execute the original instructions.

Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1457416397-26671-3-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>

diff --git a/include/qemu-common.h b/include/qemu-common.h
index ced2994402972577618f8cc946e8169014cad9d6..887ca71c8adff1456b91a6d34a4948d2090d00c5 100644 (file)
--- a/include/qemu-common.h
+++ b/include/qemu-common.h
@@ -476,13 +476,7 @@ void qemu_hexdump(const char *buf, FILE *fp, const char *prefix, size_t size);
 #endif
 
 #define BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR 8
-static inline bool
-can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len)
-{
-    return (len % (BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR
-                   * sizeof(VECTYPE)) == 0
-            && ((uintptr_t) buf) % sizeof(VECTYPE) == 0);
-}
+bool can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len);
 size_t buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len);
 
 /*

diff --git a/util/cutils.c b/util/cutils.c
index 59e1f70d5f4fb77d2d89a38998e8de71bb08efca..c3dd53453a0760871aea42f56eb62a52a63ee469 100644 (file)
--- a/util/cutils.c
+++ b/util/cutils.c
@@ -160,6 +160,14 @@ int qemu_fdatasync(int fd)
 #endif
 }
 
+static bool
+can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset_inner(const void *buf, size_t len)
+{
+    return (len % (BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR
+                   * sizeof(VECTYPE)) == 0
+            && ((uintptr_t) buf) % sizeof(VECTYPE) == 0);
+}
+
 /*
  * Searches for an area with non-zero content in a buffer
  *
@@ -168,8 +176,8 @@ int qemu_fdatasync(int fd)
  * and addr must be a multiple of sizeof(VECTYPE) due to
  * restriction of optimizations in this function.
  *
- * can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset() can be used to check
- * these requirements.
+ * can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset_inner() can be used to
+ * check these requirements.
  *
  * The return value is the offset of the non-zero area rounded
  * down to a multiple of sizeof(VECTYPE) for the first
@@ -180,13 +188,13 @@ int qemu_fdatasync(int fd)
  * If the buffer is all zero the return value is equal to len.
  */
 
-size_t buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len)
+static size_t buffer_find_nonzero_offset_inner(const void *buf, size_t len)
 {
     const VECTYPE *p = buf;
     const VECTYPE zero = (VECTYPE){0};
     size_t i;
 
-    assert(can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset(buf, len));
+    assert(can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset_inner(buf, len));
 
     if (!len) {
         return 0;
@@ -215,6 +223,114 @@ size_t buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len)
     return i * sizeof(VECTYPE);
 }
 
+/*
+ * GCC before version 4.9 has a bug which will cause the target
+ * attribute work incorrectly and failed to compile in some case,
+ * restrict the gcc version to 4.9+ to prevent the failure.
+ */
+
+#if defined CONFIG_AVX2_OPT && QEMU_GNUC_PREREQ(4, 9)
+#pragma GCC push_options
+#pragma GCC target("avx2")
+#include <cpuid.h>
+#include <immintrin.h>
+
+#define AVX2_VECTYPE        __m256i
+#define AVX2_SPLAT(p)       _mm256_set1_epi8(*(p))
+#define AVX2_ALL_EQ(v1, v2) \
+    (_mm256_movemask_epi8(_mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v1, v2)) == 0xFFFFFFFF)
+#define AVX2_VEC_OR(v1, v2) (_mm256_or_si256(v1, v2))
+
+static bool
+can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset_avx2(const void *buf, size_t len)
+{
+    return (len % (BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR
+                   * sizeof(AVX2_VECTYPE)) == 0
+            && ((uintptr_t) buf) % sizeof(AVX2_VECTYPE) == 0);
+}
+
+static size_t buffer_find_nonzero_offset_avx2(const void *buf, size_t len)
+{
+    const AVX2_VECTYPE *p = buf;
+    const AVX2_VECTYPE zero = (AVX2_VECTYPE){0};
+    size_t i;
+
+    assert(can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset_avx2(buf, len));
+
+    if (!len) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    for (i = 0; i < BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR; i++) {
+        if (!AVX2_ALL_EQ(p[i], zero)) {
+            return i * sizeof(AVX2_VECTYPE);
+        }
+    }
+
+    for (i = BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR;
+         i < len / sizeof(AVX2_VECTYPE);
+         i += BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR) {
+        AVX2_VECTYPE tmp0 = AVX2_VEC_OR(p[i + 0], p[i + 1]);
+        AVX2_VECTYPE tmp1 = AVX2_VEC_OR(p[i + 2], p[i + 3]);
+        AVX2_VECTYPE tmp2 = AVX2_VEC_OR(p[i + 4], p[i + 5]);
+        AVX2_VECTYPE tmp3 = AVX2_VEC_OR(p[i + 6], p[i + 7]);
+        AVX2_VECTYPE tmp01 = AVX2_VEC_OR(tmp0, tmp1);
+        AVX2_VECTYPE tmp23 = AVX2_VEC_OR(tmp2, tmp3);
+        if (!AVX2_ALL_EQ(AVX2_VEC_OR(tmp01, tmp23), zero)) {
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    return i * sizeof(AVX2_VECTYPE);
+}
+
+static bool avx2_support(void)
+{
+    int a, b, c, d;
+
+    if (__get_cpuid_max(0, NULL) < 7) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    __cpuid_count(7, 0, a, b, c, d);
+
+    return b & bit_AVX2;
+}
+
+bool can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len) \
+         __attribute__ ((ifunc("can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset_ifunc")));
+size_t buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len) \
+         __attribute__ ((ifunc("buffer_find_nonzero_offset_ifunc")));
+
+static void *buffer_find_nonzero_offset_ifunc(void)
+{
+    typeof(buffer_find_nonzero_offset) *func = (avx2_support()) ?
+        buffer_find_nonzero_offset_avx2 : buffer_find_nonzero_offset_inner;
+
+    return func;
+}
+
+static void *can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset_ifunc(void)
+{
+    typeof(can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset) *func = (avx2_support()) ?
+        can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset_avx2 :
+        can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset_inner;
+
+    return func;
+}
+#pragma GCC pop_options
+#else
+bool can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len)
+{
+    return can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset_inner(buf, len);
+}
+
+size_t buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len)
+{
+    return buffer_find_nonzero_offset_inner(buf, len);
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Checks if a buffer is all zeroes
  *