/* wc_avx - Count the number of newlines with avx2 instructions. Copyright (C) 2021-2023 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 "wc.h" #include "system.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) /* Read FD and return a summary. */ extern struct wc_lines wc_lines_avx2 (int fd) { intmax_t lines = 0; intmax_t bytes = 0; __m256i zeroes = _mm256_setzero_si256 (), endlines = _mm256_set1_epi8 ('\n'); while (true) { /* 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. */ __m256i accumulator = _mm256_setzero_si256 (), accumulator2 = _mm256_setzero_si256 (), avx_buf[BUFSIZE / sizeof (__m256i)]; ssize_t bytes_read = read (fd, avx_buf, sizeof avx_buf); if (bytes_read <= 0) return (struct wc_lines) { bytes_read == 0 ? 0 : errno, lines, bytes }; bytes += bytes_read; __m256i *datap = avx_buf; while (bytes_read >= 64) { __m256i 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. */ 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); 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); /* Finish up any left over bytes */ char *end = (char *) datap + bytes_read; for (char *p = (char *) datap; p < end; p++) lines += *p == '\n'; } }