/* wc_avx - Count the number of newlines with avx2 instructions.
Copyright (C) 2021-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see . */
#include
#include "system.h"
#include "error.h"
#include "safe-read.h"
#include
/* This must be below 16 KB (16384) or else the accumulators can
theoretically overflow, producing wrong result. This is 2*32 bytes below,
so there is no single bytes in the optimal case. */
#define BUFSIZE (16320)
extern bool
wc_lines_avx2 (char const *file, int fd, uintmax_t *lines_out,
uintmax_t *bytes_out);
extern bool
wc_lines_avx2 (char const *file, int fd, uintmax_t *lines_out,
uintmax_t *bytes_out)
{
__m256i accumulator;
__m256i accumulator2;
__m256i zeroes;
__m256i endlines;
__m256i avx_buf[BUFSIZE / sizeof (__m256i)];
__m256i *datap;
uintmax_t lines = 0;
uintmax_t bytes = 0;
size_t bytes_read = 0;
if (!lines_out || !bytes_out)
return false;
/* Using two parallel accumulators gave a good performance increase.
Adding a third gave no additional benefit, at least on an
Intel Xeon E3-1231v3. Maybe on a newer CPU with additional vector
execution engines it would be a win. */
accumulator = _mm256_setzero_si256 ();
accumulator2 = _mm256_setzero_si256 ();
zeroes = _mm256_setzero_si256 ();
endlines = _mm256_set1_epi8 ('\n');
while ((bytes_read = safe_read (fd, avx_buf, sizeof (avx_buf))) > 0)
{
__m256i to_match;
__m256i to_match2;
__m256i matches;
__m256i matches2;
if (bytes_read == SAFE_READ_ERROR)
{
error (0, errno, "%s", quotef (file));
return false;
}
bytes += bytes_read;
datap = avx_buf;
char *end = ((char *)avx_buf) + bytes_read;
while (bytes_read >= 64)
{
to_match = _mm256_load_si256 (datap);
to_match2 = _mm256_load_si256 (datap + 1);
matches = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8 (to_match, endlines);
matches2 = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8 (to_match2, endlines);
/* Compare will set each 8 bit integer in the register to 0xFF
on match. When we subtract it the 8 bit accumulators
will underflow, so this is equal to adding 1. */
accumulator = _mm256_sub_epi8 (accumulator, matches);
accumulator2 = _mm256_sub_epi8 (accumulator2, matches2);
datap += 2;
bytes_read -= 64;
}
/* Horizontally add all 8 bit integers in the register,
and then reset it */
accumulator = _mm256_sad_epu8 (accumulator, zeroes);
lines += _mm256_extract_epi16 (accumulator, 0)
+ _mm256_extract_epi16 (accumulator, 4)
+ _mm256_extract_epi16 (accumulator, 8)
+ _mm256_extract_epi16 (accumulator, 12);
accumulator = _mm256_setzero_si256 ();
accumulator2 = _mm256_sad_epu8 (accumulator2, zeroes);
lines += _mm256_extract_epi16 (accumulator2, 0)
+ _mm256_extract_epi16 (accumulator2, 4)
+ _mm256_extract_epi16 (accumulator2, 8)
+ _mm256_extract_epi16 (accumulator2, 12);
accumulator2 = _mm256_setzero_si256 ();
/* Finish up any left over bytes */
char *p = (char *)datap;
while (p != end)
lines += *p++ == '\n';
}
*lines_out = lines;
*bytes_out = bytes;
return true;
}