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From: "H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
To: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] x86-64: Add Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:05:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOpLSv8RY5wj7X6B5ub6tSZsGVOkMCYNXAC4TnsKUn=Nkg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFUsyfL4Y4VgteVn=b_2Kh=-YOsv9sUoit1=aH1PQ+91eLRACA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 9:06 PM Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 11:11 PM H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 7:15 PM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 7/26/21 8:00 AM, H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha wrote:
>> > > commit 3ec5d83d2a237d39e7fd6ef7a0bc8ac4c171a4a5
>> > > Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
>> > > Date:   Sat Jan 25 14:19:40 2020 -0800
>> > >
>> > >     x86-64: Avoid rep movsb with short distance [BZ #27130]
>> > > introduced some regressions on Intel processors without Fast Short REP
>> > > MOV (FSRM).  Add Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB to avoid rep movsb with
>> > > short distance only on Intel processors with FSRM.  bench-memmove-large
>> > > on Skylake server shows that cycles of __memmove_evex_unaligned_erms are
>> > > improved for the following data size:
>> > >
>> > >                                   before    after    Improvement
>> > > length=4127, align1=3, align2=0:  479.38    343.00      28%
>> > > length=4223, align1=9, align2=5:  405.62    335.50      17%
>> > > length=8223, align1=3, align2=0:  786.12    495.00      37%
>> > > length=8319, align1=9, align2=5:  256.69    170.38      33%
>> > > length=16415, align1=3, align2=0: 1436.88   839.50      41%
>> > > length=16511, align1=9, align2=5: 1375.50   840.62      39%
>> > > length=32799, align1=3, align2=0: 2890.00   1850.62     36%
>> > > length=32895, align1=9, align2=5: 2891.38   1948.62     32%
>> > >
>> > > There are no regression on Ice Lake server.
>> >
>> > At this point we're waiting on Noah to provide feedback on the performance
>> > results given the alignment nop insertion you provided as a follow-up patch
>
>
> The results with the padding look good!
>
>>
>>
>> We are testing 25 byte nop padding now:
>>
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/x86-glibc/glibc/-/commit/de8985640a568786a59576716db54e0749d420e8
>>
> How did you come to the exact padding choice used?

I first replaced the 9 byte instructions:

        andl    $X86_STRING_CONTROL_AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB,
__x86_string_control(%rip)
        jz      3f

with a 9-byte NOP and reproduced the regression on Tiger Lake.  It confirmed
that the code layout caused the regression.    I first tried adding
".p2align 4" to
branch targets and they made no differences.   Then I started adding different
size of nops after

        andl    $X86_STRING_CONTROL_AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB,
__x86_string_control(%rip)
        jz      3f
        movq    %rdi, %rcx
        subq    %rsi, %rcx
        jmp     2f

with ".nops N".  I started with N == 1 and doubled N in each step.  I
noticed that
improvement started at N == 32.   I started bisecting between 16 and 32:

1. 24 and 32 are good.
2. 24 and 28 are good.
3. 25 is the best overall.

>>
>> > (unless you can confirm this yourself).
>> >
>> > Looking forward to a v2 the incorporates the alignment fix (pending Noah's
>> > comments), and my suggestions below.
>>
>> >
>> > > ---
>> > >  sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.h                                    | 7 +++++++
>> > >  sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c                                 | 5 +++++
>> > >  .../x86/include/cpu-features-preferred_feature_index_1.def | 1 +
>> > >  sysdeps/x86/sysdep.h                                       | 3 +++
>> > >  sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S      | 5 +++++
>> > >  5 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
>> > >
>> > > diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.h b/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.h
>> > > index eba8dbc4a6..174ea38f5b 100644
>> > > --- a/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.h
>> > > +++ b/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.h
>> > > @@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ long int __x86_rep_stosb_threshold attribute_hidden = 2048;
>> > >  /* Threshold to stop using Enhanced REP MOVSB.  */
>> > >  long int __x86_rep_movsb_stop_threshold attribute_hidden;
>> > >
>> > > +/* String/memory function control.  */
>> > > +int __x86_string_control attribute_hidden;
>> >
>> > Please expand comment.
>> >
>> > Suggest:
>> >
>> > /* A bit-wise OR of string/memory requirements for optimal performance
>> >    e.g. X86_STRING_CONTROL_AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB.  These bits
>> >    are used at runtime to tune implementation behavior.  */
>> > int __x86_string_control attribute_hidden;
>>
>> I will fix it in the v2 patch.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> > > +
>> > >  static void
>> > >  init_cacheinfo (void)
>> > >  {
>> > > @@ -71,5 +74,9 @@ init_cacheinfo (void)
>> > >    __x86_rep_movsb_threshold = cpu_features->rep_movsb_threshold;
>> > >    __x86_rep_stosb_threshold = cpu_features->rep_stosb_threshold;
>> > >    __x86_rep_movsb_stop_threshold =  cpu_features->rep_movsb_stop_threshold;
>> > > +
>> > > +  if (CPU_FEATURES_ARCH_P (cpu_features, Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB))
>> > > +    __x86_string_control
>> > > +      |= X86_STRING_CONTROL_AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB;
>> >
>> > OK.
>> >
>> > >  }
>> > >  #endif
>> > > diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
>> > > index 706a172ba9..645bba6314 100644
>> > > --- a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
>> > > +++ b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
>> > > @@ -555,6 +555,11 @@ init_cpu_features (struct cpu_features *cpu_features)
>> > >           cpu_features->preferred[index_arch_Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP]
>> > >             |= bit_arch_Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP;
>> > >       }
>> > > +
>> > > +      /* Avoid avoid short distance REP MOVSB on processor with FSRM.  */
>> > > +      if (CPU_FEATURES_CPU_P (cpu_features, FSRM))
>> > > +     cpu_features->preferred[index_arch_Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB]
>> > > +       |= bit_arch_Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB;
>> >
>> > OK.
>> >
>> > >      }
>> > >    /* This spells out "AuthenticAMD" or "HygonGenuine".  */
>> > >    else if ((ebx == 0x68747541 && ecx == 0x444d4163 && edx == 0x69746e65)
>> > > diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/include/cpu-features-preferred_feature_index_1.def b/sysdeps/x86/include/cpu-features-preferred_feature_index_1.def
>> > > index 133aab19f1..d7c93f00c5 100644
>> > > --- a/sysdeps/x86/include/cpu-features-preferred_feature_index_1.def
>> > > +++ b/sysdeps/x86/include/cpu-features-preferred_feature_index_1.def
>> > > @@ -33,3 +33,4 @@ BIT (Prefer_No_AVX512)
>> > >  BIT (MathVec_Prefer_No_AVX512)
>> > >  BIT (Prefer_FSRM)
>> > >  BIT (Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP)
>> > > +BIT (Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB)
>> >
>> > OK.
>> >
>> > > diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/sysdep.h b/sysdeps/x86/sysdep.h
>> > > index 51c069bfe1..35cb90d507 100644
>> > > --- a/sysdeps/x86/sysdep.h
>> > > +++ b/sysdeps/x86/sysdep.h
>> > > @@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ enum cf_protection_level
>> > >  #define STATE_SAVE_MASK \
>> > >    ((1 << 1) | (1 << 2) | (1 << 3) | (1 << 5) | (1 << 6) | (1 << 7))
>> > >
>> >
>> > Suggest adding:
>> >
>> > /* Constants for bits in __x86_string_control:  */
>> >
>> > > +/* Avoid short distance REP MOVSB.  */
>> > > +#define X86_STRING_CONTROL_AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB    (1 << 0)
>> >
>> > OK.
>> >
>> > > +
>> > >  #ifdef       __ASSEMBLER__
>> > >
>> > >  /* Syntactic details of assembler.  */
>> > > diff --git a/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S b/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S
>> > > index a783da5de2..9f02624375 100644
>> > > --- a/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S
>> > > +++ b/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S
>> > > @@ -325,12 +325,16 @@ L(movsb):
>> > >       /* Avoid slow backward REP MOVSB.  */
>> > >       jb      L(more_8x_vec_backward)
>> > >  # if AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB
>> > > +     andl    $X86_STRING_CONTROL_AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB, __x86_string_control(%rip)
>> > > +     jz      3f
>> >
>> > OK.
>> >
>> > >       movq    %rdi, %rcx
>> > >       subq    %rsi, %rcx
>> > >       jmp     2f
>> > >  # endif
>> > >  1:
>> > >  # if AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB
>> > > +     andl    $X86_STRING_CONTROL_AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB, __x86_string_control(%rip)
>> > > +     jz      3f
>> >
>> > OK.
>> >
>> > >       movq    %rsi, %rcx
>> > >       subq    %rdi, %rcx
>> > >  2:
>> > > @@ -338,6 +342,7 @@ L(movsb):
>> > >     is N*4GB + [1..63] with N >= 0.  */
>> > >       cmpl    $63, %ecx
>> > >       jbe     L(more_2x_vec)  /* Avoid "rep movsb" if ECX <= 63.  */
>> > > +3:
>> >
>> > OK.
>> >
>> > >  # endif
>> > >       mov     %RDX_LP, %RCX_LP
>> > >       rep movsb
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Cheers,
>> > Carlos.
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> H.J.

Here is the v2 patch:

1.  Add a 25-byte NOP padding after JMP for Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB,
which improves bench-memcpy-random performance on Tiger Lake by ~30%.
2. Update comments for __x86_string_control.


-- 
H.J.

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From 7fbe4770ecd7b9d86b733af02f1182d214e52c45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 20:26:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH v2] x86-64: Add Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB

commit 3ec5d83d2a237d39e7fd6ef7a0bc8ac4c171a4a5
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Jan 25 14:19:40 2020 -0800

    x86-64: Avoid rep movsb with short distance [BZ #27130]

introduced some regressions on Intel processors without Fast Short REP
MOV (FSRM).  Add Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB to avoid rep movsb with
short distance only on Intel processors with FSRM.  bench-memmove-large
on Skylake server shows that cycles of __memmove_evex_unaligned_erms
improves for the following data size:

                                  before    after    Improvement
length=4127, align1=3, align2=0:  479.38    343.00      28%
length=4223, align1=9, align2=5:  405.62    335.50      17%
length=8223, align1=3, align2=0:  786.12    495.00      37%
length=8319, align1=9, align2=5:  256.69    170.38      33%
length=16415, align1=3, align2=0: 1436.88   839.50      41%
length=16511, align1=9, align2=5: 1375.50   840.62      39%
length=32799, align1=3, align2=0: 2890.00   1850.62     36%
length=32895, align1=9, align2=5: 2891.38   1948.62     32%

Add a 25-byte NOP padding after JMP for Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB,
which improves bench-memcpy-random performance on Tiger Lake by ~30%.
---
 sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.h                             |  9 +++++++++
 sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c                          |  5 +++++
 .../cpu-features-preferred_feature_index_1.def      |  1 +
 sysdeps/x86/sysdep.h                                |  5 +++++
 .../x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S   | 13 +++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 33 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.h b/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.h
index eba8dbc4a6..41d2c81369 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.h
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.h
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ long int __x86_rep_stosb_threshold attribute_hidden = 2048;
 /* Threshold to stop using Enhanced REP MOVSB.  */
 long int __x86_rep_movsb_stop_threshold attribute_hidden;
 
+/* A bit-wise OR of string/memory requirements for optimal performance
+   e.g. X86_STRING_CONTROL_AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB.  These bits
+   are used at runtime to tune implementation behavior.  */
+int __x86_string_control attribute_hidden;
+
 static void
 init_cacheinfo (void)
 {
@@ -71,5 +76,9 @@ init_cacheinfo (void)
   __x86_rep_movsb_threshold = cpu_features->rep_movsb_threshold;
   __x86_rep_stosb_threshold = cpu_features->rep_stosb_threshold;
   __x86_rep_movsb_stop_threshold =  cpu_features->rep_movsb_stop_threshold;
+
+  if (CPU_FEATURES_ARCH_P (cpu_features, Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB))
+    __x86_string_control
+      |= X86_STRING_CONTROL_AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB;
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
index 706a172ba9..645bba6314 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
@@ -555,6 +555,11 @@ init_cpu_features (struct cpu_features *cpu_features)
 	    cpu_features->preferred[index_arch_Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP]
 	      |= bit_arch_Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP;
 	}
+
+      /* Avoid avoid short distance REP MOVSB on processor with FSRM.  */
+      if (CPU_FEATURES_CPU_P (cpu_features, FSRM))
+	cpu_features->preferred[index_arch_Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB]
+	  |= bit_arch_Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB;
     }
   /* This spells out "AuthenticAMD" or "HygonGenuine".  */
   else if ((ebx == 0x68747541 && ecx == 0x444d4163 && edx == 0x69746e65)
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/include/cpu-features-preferred_feature_index_1.def b/sysdeps/x86/include/cpu-features-preferred_feature_index_1.def
index 133aab19f1..d7c93f00c5 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/include/cpu-features-preferred_feature_index_1.def
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/include/cpu-features-preferred_feature_index_1.def
@@ -33,3 +33,4 @@ BIT (Prefer_No_AVX512)
 BIT (MathVec_Prefer_No_AVX512)
 BIT (Prefer_FSRM)
 BIT (Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP)
+BIT (Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB)
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/sysdep.h b/sysdeps/x86/sysdep.h
index 51c069bfe1..cac1d762fb 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/sysdep.h
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/sysdep.h
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ enum cf_protection_level
 #define STATE_SAVE_MASK \
   ((1 << 1) | (1 << 2) | (1 << 3) | (1 << 5) | (1 << 6) | (1 << 7))
 
+/* Constants for bits in __x86_string_control:  */
+
+/* Avoid short distance REP MOVSB.  */
+#define X86_STRING_CONTROL_AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB	(1 << 0)
+
 #ifdef	__ASSEMBLER__
 
 /* Syntactic details of assembler.  */
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S b/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S
index a783da5de2..8d42fe517b 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S
+++ b/sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S
@@ -325,12 +325,24 @@ L(movsb):
 	/* Avoid slow backward REP MOVSB.  */
 	jb	L(more_8x_vec_backward)
 # if AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB
+	andl	$X86_STRING_CONTROL_AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB, __x86_string_control(%rip)
+	jz	3f
 	movq	%rdi, %rcx
 	subq	%rsi, %rcx
 	jmp	2f
+	/* Add a 25-byte NOP padding here to improve bench-memcpy-random
+	   performance on Skylake and Tiger Lake.  */
+	/* data16 cs nopw 0x0(%rax,%rax,1) */
+	.byte 0x66, 0x66, 0x2e, 0x0f, 0x1f, 0x84, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
+	/* data16 cs nopw 0x0(%rax,%rax,1) */
+	.byte 0x66, 0x66, 0x2e, 0x0f, 0x1f, 0x84, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
+	/* nopl (%rax) */
+	.byte 0x0f, 0x1f, 0x00
 # endif
 1:
 # if AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB
+	andl	$X86_STRING_CONTROL_AVOID_SHORT_DISTANCE_REP_MOVSB, __x86_string_control(%rip)
+	jz	3f
 	movq	%rsi, %rcx
 	subq	%rdi, %rcx
 2:
@@ -338,6 +350,7 @@ L(movsb):
    is N*4GB + [1..63] with N >= 0.  */
 	cmpl	$63, %ecx
 	jbe	L(more_2x_vec)	/* Avoid "rep movsb" if ECX <= 63.  */
+3:
 # endif
 	mov	%RDX_LP, %RCX_LP
 	rep movsb
-- 
2.31.1


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-27 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-26 12:00 [PATCH] x86-64: Add Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha
2021-07-26 17:20 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-07-26 18:50   ` H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha
2021-07-27  2:15 ` Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha
2021-07-27  3:11   ` H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha
2021-07-27  4:05     ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-07-27 16:05       ` H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha [this message]
2021-07-27 19:12         ` [PATCH v2] " Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-07-27 19:22           ` [PATCH v3] " H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha
2021-07-27 19:50             ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-07-27 19:55               ` H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha
2021-07-28 15:08               ` H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha
2021-08-28  0:27 ` [PATCH] " Alexey Tourbin via Libc-alpha
2021-08-28  2:57   ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2022-04-28  0:15     ` Sunil Pandey via Libc-alpha

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