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[PATCH] x86-64: Use _dl_runtime_resolve_opt only with AVX512F
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hongjiu dot lu at intel dot com>
- To: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 08:12:14 -0700
- Subject: [PATCH] x86-64: Use _dl_runtime_resolve_opt only with AVX512F
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- Reply-to: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
On AVX machines with XGETBV (ECX == 1) like Skylake processors,
(gdb) disass _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt
Dump of assembler code for function _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt:
0x0000000000015890 <+0>: push %rax
0x0000000000015891 <+1>: push %rcx
0x0000000000015892 <+2>: push %rdx
0x0000000000015893 <+3>: mov $0x1,%ecx
0x0000000000015898 <+8>: xgetbv
0x000000000001589b <+11>: mov %eax,%r11d
0x000000000001589e <+14>: pop %rdx
0x000000000001589f <+15>: pop %rcx
0x00000000000158a0 <+16>: pop %rax
0x00000000000158a1 <+17>: and $0x4,%r11d
0x00000000000158a5 <+21>: bnd je 0x16200 <_dl_runtime_resolve_sse_vex>
End of assembler dump.
is slower than:
(gdb) disass _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
Dump of assembler code for function _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow:
0x0000000000015850 <+0>: vorpd %ymm0,%ymm1,%ymm8
0x0000000000015854 <+4>: vorpd %ymm2,%ymm3,%ymm9
0x0000000000015858 <+8>: vorpd %ymm4,%ymm5,%ymm10
0x000000000001585c <+12>: vorpd %ymm6,%ymm7,%ymm11
0x0000000000015860 <+16>: vorpd %ymm8,%ymm9,%ymm9
0x0000000000015865 <+21>: vorpd %ymm10,%ymm11,%ymm10
0x000000000001586a <+26>: vpcmpeqd %xmm8,%xmm8,%xmm8
0x000000000001586f <+31>: vorpd %ymm9,%ymm10,%ymm10
0x0000000000015874 <+36>: vptest %ymm10,%ymm8
0x0000000000015879 <+41>: bnd jae 0x158b0 <_dl_runtime_resolve_avx>
0x000000000001587c <+44>: vzeroupper
0x000000000001587f <+47>: bnd jmpq 0x16200 <_dl_runtime_resolve_sse_vex>
End of assembler dump.
(gdb)
since xgetbv takes much more cycles than single cycle operations like
vpord/vvpcmpeq/ptest. _dl_runtime_resolve_opt should be used only with
AVX512 where AVX512 instructions lead to lower CPU frequency on Skylake
server.
Any comments or objections?
H.J.
---
[BZ #21871]
* sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c (init_cpu_features): Set
bit_arch_Use_dl_runtime_resolve_opt only with AVX512F.
---
sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
index 1d087ea732..6f900840d4 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
@@ -244,10 +244,13 @@ init_cpu_features (struct cpu_features *cpu_features)
|= bit_arch_Prefer_No_AVX512;
/* To avoid SSE transition penalty, use _dl_runtime_resolve_slow.
- If XGETBV suports ECX == 1, use _dl_runtime_resolve_opt. */
+ If XGETBV suports ECX == 1, use _dl_runtime_resolve_opt.
+ Use _dl_runtime_resolve_opt only with AVX512F since it is
+ slower than _dl_runtime_resolve_slow with AVX. */
cpu_features->feature[index_arch_Use_dl_runtime_resolve_slow]
|= bit_arch_Use_dl_runtime_resolve_slow;
- if (cpu_features->max_cpuid >= 0xd)
+ if (CPU_FEATURES_ARCH_P (cpu_features, AVX512F_Usable)
+ && cpu_features->max_cpuid >= 0xd)
{
unsigned int eax;
--
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