From: "Gabriel F. T. Gomes" <gabriel@inconstante.eti.br>
To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Cc: <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/28] powerpc: Remove power4 mpa optimization
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:51:44 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190424215144.pyv35t5ceovhfqxc@tereshkova> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190329133529.22523-4-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
On Fri, Mar 29 2019, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> This patch removes the POWER4 optimized mpa optimization used for power4+
> build. For newer chips, GCC generates *worse* code than generic
> implementation as benchmaks result below.
I don't think I have access to POWER4 hardware, but when running
power4-targeted builds on newer processors, I saw no performance
degradation even in that scenario.
> One possibilty would to add
> IFUNC variants for the mpa routines (as x86_64), but it will add complexity
> only for older chips (and one would need to check if power5, power5+, and
> power6 do benefict from this optimization), and only for specific
> implementation (since most used ones such as sin, cos, exp, pow already
> avoid calling the slow multiprecision path).
I don't think it's worth the effort.
> Checked on powerpc-linux-gnu (built without --with-cpu, with
> --with-cpu=power4 and with --with-cpu=power5+ and --disable-multi-arch),
> powerpc64-linux-gnu (built without --with-cp and with --with-cpu=power5+
> and --disable-multi-arch).
Thanks for the thorough checking.
> * sysdeps/powerpc/power4/fpu/Makefile: Remove file.
> * sysdeps/powerpc/power4/fpu/mpa-arch.h: Likewise.
> * sysdeps/powerpc/power4/fpu/mpa.c: Likewise.
Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Gabriel F. T. Gomes <gabriel@inconstante.eti.br>
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-29 13:35 [PATCH 00/28] powerpc floating-point optimization refactor Adhemerval Zanella
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 01/28] powerpc: Use generic fabs{f} implementations Adhemerval Zanella
2019-04-01 20:04 ` Joseph Myers
2019-04-03 1:04 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-04-15 20:23 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-04-15 21:32 ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
2019-04-17 17:08 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 02/28] powerpc: fma using builtins Adhemerval Zanella
2019-04-01 20:05 ` Joseph Myers
2019-04-03 1:06 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-04-15 21:44 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-04-17 21:10 ` Joseph Myers
2019-04-17 21:28 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 03/28] powerpc: Remove power4 mpa optimization Adhemerval Zanella
2019-04-24 21:51 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes [this message]
2019-04-25 12:19 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 04/28] powerpc: ceil/ceilf refactor Adhemerval Zanella
2019-04-25 1:56 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-04-25 21:58 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-05-02 18:41 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-05-04 21:46 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-05-06 12:22 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-05-09 19:56 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 05/28] powerpc: floor/floorf refactor Adhemerval Zanella
2019-05-03 21:44 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 06/28] powerpc: round/roundf refactor Adhemerval Zanella
2019-05-04 1:10 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 07/28] powerpc: trunc/truncf refactor Adhemerval Zanella
2019-05-09 20:06 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-05-09 20:54 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-05-09 21:36 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 08/28] powerpc: generic nearbyint/nearbyintf Adhemerval Zanella
2019-05-27 20:42 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 09/28] powerpc: consolidate rint Adhemerval Zanella
2019-05-30 14:36 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 10/28] powerpc: copysign cleanup Adhemerval Zanella
2019-05-31 14:14 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 11/28] benchtests: Add isnan/isinf/isfinite benchmark Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-05 22:45 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 12/28] math: Use wordsize-64 version for isnan Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-05 22:45 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 13/28] powerpc: Remove optimized isnan Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-05 22:46 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 14/28] math: Use wordsize-64 version for isinf Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-11 13:13 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-06-13 8:57 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-06-13 9:11 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 15/28] powerpc: Remove optimized isinf Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-11 13:45 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 16/28] math: Use wordsize-64 version for finite Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-11 16:20 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 17/28] powerpc: Remove optimized finite Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-11 18:08 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 18/28] powerpc: refactor powerpc64 lrint/lrintf/llrint/llrintf Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-13 19:30 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 19/28] powerpc: Refactor powerpc32 lrint/lrintf/llrint/llrintf Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-14 18:34 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 20/28] powerpc: Refactor powerpc64 lround/lroundf/llround/llroundf Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-13 19:30 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 21/28] powerpc: Refactor powerpc32 lround/lroundf/llround/llroundf Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-24 21:07 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-06-25 18:34 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-25 18:44 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 22/28] powerpc: Use generic e_expf Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-26 12:59 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 23/28] benchtests: hypot benchmark Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-26 19:58 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 24/28] powerpc: hypot refactor and optimization Adhemerval Zanella
2019-04-01 20:14 ` Joseph Myers
2019-04-03 1:08 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-06-26 19:59 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-07-08 15:37 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-07-08 18:30 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 25/28] powerpc: Refactor modf{f} Adhemerval Zanella
2019-07-05 1:23 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-07-08 18:30 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 26/28] benchtests: Add logb{f} benchmark Adhemerval Zanella
2019-07-05 1:23 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-07-08 18:31 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 27/28] math: Use wordsize-64 version for s_logb Adhemerval Zanella
2019-07-05 1:23 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-07-08 18:31 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-03-29 13:35 ` [PATCH 28/28] powerpc: refactor logb{f,l} Adhemerval Zanella
2019-07-05 1:24 ` Gabriel F. T. Gomes
2019-07-08 18:31 ` Adhemerval Zanella
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