Re: Popcount optimization using AVX512

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Amonson, Paul D" <paul(dot)d(dot)amonson(at)intel(dot)com>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, "Shankaran, Akash" <akash(dot)shankaran(at)intel(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Popcount optimization using AVX512
Date: 2024-03-18 17:53:50
Message-ID: 20240318175350.GA413342@nathanxps13
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 12:30:04PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> Here is a more fleshed-out version of what I believe David is proposing.
> On my machine, the gains aren't quite as impressive (~8.8s to ~5.2s for the
> test_popcount benchmark). I assume this is because this patch turns
> pg_popcount() into a function pointer, which is what the AVX512 patches do,
> too. I left out the 32-bit section from pg_popcount_fast(), but I'll admit
> that I'm not yet 100% sure that we can assume we're on a 64-bit system
> there.
>
> IMHO this work is arguably a prerequisite for the AVX512 work, as turning
> pg_popcount() into a function pointer will likely regress performance for
> folks on systems without AVX512 otherwise.

Apologies for the noise. I noticed that we could (and probably should)
inline the pg_popcount32/64 calls in the "slow" version, too.

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Nathan Bossart
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