Re: Proposal for enabling auto-vectorization for checksum calculations

From: Stepan Neretin <slpmcf(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Matthew Sterrett <matthewsterrett2(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, "Devulapalli, Raghuveer" <raghuveer(dot)devulapalli(at)intel(dot)com>, "Shankaran, Akash" <akash(dot)shankaran(at)intel(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Proposal for enabling auto-vectorization for checksum calculations
Date: 2025-05-10 11:01:06
Message-ID: CA+Yyo5RihTRUdUdanuNYhjQeXQY6412FWjzaxJAQR5MGX83=EQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM Matthew Sterrett <matthewsterrett2(at)gmail(dot)com>
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> Hello! I'm still trying to figure out those CI failures, I just wanted
> to update things.
>
> From my testing, with this patch repeatedly disabling/enabling
> checksums is about 12.4% on an approximately 15 GB database.
>
> By the way, I'd love it if anyone could help me figure out how to
> replicate a CI failure in the Cirrus CI.
> I haven't been able to figure out how to test CI runs locally, does
> anyone know a good method to do that?
>
>
>
Hi Matthew,

Thanks for the patch!

I ran some timing tests:

(without avx2)

Time: 4034.351 ms
SELECT drive_pg_checksum(512);

(with avx2)

Time: 3559.076 ms
SELECT drive_pg_checksum(512);

Also attached two patches that should fix the CI issues.

Best,

Stepan Neretin

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