Re: Improve CRC32C performance on SSE4.2

From: Andy Fan <zhihuifan1213(at)163(dot)com>
To: John Naylor <johncnaylorls(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Devulapalli, Raghuveer" <raghuveer(dot)devulapalli(at)intel(dot)com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jesper Pedersen <jesperpedersen(dot)db(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "Shankaran, Akash" <akash(dot)shankaran(at)intel(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Improve CRC32C performance on SSE4.2
Date: 2025-06-18 10:18:15
Message-ID: 877c19cpzs.fsf@163.com
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John Naylor <johncnaylorls(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

Hi,

>> Just be curious, what kind of optimization (like what -O2 does) could
>> mask this issue?
>
> In case Andy is asking about "how" rather than "under what
> circumstances", my guess is: -O1+ may have just chosen instructions
> that also happen to zero-extend, which are common. -O0 doesn't
> represent the naive straightforward structure of what the programmer
> wrote, it's more like an "exploded" representation suitable for later
> optimization passes. That's why it always looks goofy.

Thanks for the explaination!

>> > Replacing that with _mm512_zextsi128_si512 fixes the problem.
>
> Here's a patch for testing, which also reverts the previous
> workaround. Help welcome, but I still promise to test it in the near
> future regardless.

I verified the your patch, it works for me.

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Best Regards
Andy Fan

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