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From: Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
To: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] stdlib: Optimization qsort{_r} swap implementation (BZ #19305)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:56:19 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d06f9d73-6c34-859d-36f5-1cb620808a2a@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFUsyfK8LLTuXNa5B74VGScYLMLBKb++LEimxKXNdJsxxCwqvg@mail.gmail.com>



On 15/10/2021 14:45, Noah Goldstein wrote:
> swap is in the inner loop. Seems like a pretty critical component to have fully
> optimized. The aarch64 version looks good, but the x86_64 version seems
> to be lacking. Not arguing for an arch specific version, but if the directives
> can add value to x86_64 without detracting from aarch64 seems like a zero
> cost improvement.
> 
> Since size is non-constant for the tail I don't see how we are going
> avoid 3x memcpy calls. Although that can be another patch if it
> gets values.
> 
>>
>>
>> [1] https://godbolt.org/z/v7e4xxqGa

Maybe use a byte copy in the tail to avoid memcpy [1], another option
might to tune SWAP_GENERIC_SIZE to make the tail less costly (16 should
be ok for most architecture, although some might be better with large
values).

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/G76dcej16

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-15 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-03 17:11 [PATCH v3 0/7] Use introsort for qsort Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] benchtests: Add bench-qsort Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-04  9:09   ` Alexander Monakov via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 18:30     ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-13  3:19   ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 12:52     ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 16:39       ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:19         ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] support: Fix getopt_long with CMDLINE_OPTIONS Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] stdlib: Optimization qsort{_r} swap implementation (BZ #19305) Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-13  3:29   ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-13  3:39     ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 13:29       ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:17         ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:34           ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:45             ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:56               ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha [this message]
2021-10-15 13:12     ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 16:45       ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:21         ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] stdlib: Move insertion sort out qsort Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 20:35   ` Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 20:48     ` Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] stdlib: qsort: Move some macros to inline function Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] stdlib: Implement introsort with qsort Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-04  9:17   ` Alexander Monakov via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 18:43     ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 20:23   ` Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha
2021-10-13  3:53   ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] stdlib: Remove use of mergesort on qsort (BZ #21719) Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 19:18 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] Use introsort for qsort Paul Eggert
2021-09-06 14:13   ` Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 17:03     ` Zack Weinberg via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 18:19       ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-07  0:14     ` Paul Eggert
2021-09-07 14:32       ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-07 17:39         ` Paul Eggert
2021-09-07 18:07           ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-07 19:28             ` Paul Eggert
2021-09-08 11:56               ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-09  0:39                 ` Paul Eggert

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