[PATCH v5 6/6] elf: Optimize _dl_new_hash in dl-new-hash.h

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Tue May 10 11:58:57 GMT 2022



On 09/05/2022 14:17, Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha wrote:
> Unroll slightly and enforce good instruction scheduling. This improves
> performance on out-of-order machines. Note the unrolling allows
> for pipelined multiplies which helps a bit, but most of the gain
> is from enforcing better instruction scheduling for more ILP.
> Unrolling further started to induce slowdowns for sizes [0, 4]
> but can help the loop so if larger sizes are the target further
> unrolling can be beneficial.
> 
> Results for _dl_new_hash
> Benchmarked on Tigerlake: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
> 
> Time as Geometric Mean of N=25 runs
> Geometric of all benchmark New / Old: 0.791
>   type, length, New Time, Old Time, New Time / Old Time
>  fixed,      0,    0.641,    0.658,               0.974
>  fixed,      1,    1.888,    1.883,               1.003
>  fixed,      2,    2.712,    2.833,               0.957
>  fixed,      3,    3.314,    3.739,               0.886
>  fixed,      4,    4.316,    4.866,               0.887
>  fixed,      5,     5.16,    5.966,               0.865
>  fixed,      6,    5.986,    7.241,               0.827
>  fixed,      7,    7.264,    8.435,               0.861
>  fixed,      8,    8.052,    9.846,               0.818
>  fixed,      9,    9.369,   11.316,               0.828
>  fixed,     10,   10.256,   12.925,               0.794
>  fixed,     11,   12.191,   14.546,               0.838
>  fixed,     12,   12.667,    15.92,               0.796
>  fixed,     13,   14.442,   17.465,               0.827
>  fixed,     14,   14.808,   18.981,                0.78
>  fixed,     15,   16.244,   20.565,                0.79
>  fixed,     16,   17.166,   22.044,               0.779
>  fixed,     32,   35.447,   50.558,               0.701
>  fixed,     64,   86.479,  134.529,               0.643
>  fixed,    128,  155.453,  287.527,               0.541
>  fixed,    256,   302.57,   593.64,                0.51
> random,      2,   11.168,    10.61,               1.053
> random,      4,   13.308,    13.53,               0.984
> random,      8,   16.579,   19.437,               0.853
> random,     16,   21.292,   24.776,               0.859
> random,     32,    30.56,   35.906,               0.851
> random,     64,   49.249,   68.577,               0.718
> random,    128,   81.845,  140.664,               0.582
> random,    256,  152.517,  292.204,               0.522
> 
> Co-authored-by: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru>

Buildbot failed to build it [1]:

make[2]: Entering directory '/glibc/elf'
gcc -m32 dl-lookup.c -c -std=gnu11 -fgnu89-inline  -g -O2 -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wundef -Werror -fmerge-all-constants -frounding-math -fno-stack-protector -fno-common -Wstrict-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -fmath-errno    -fPIC  -fno-stack-protector -DSTACK_PROTECTOR_LEVEL=0 -Wa,-mtune=i686  -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mfpmath=387    -fexceptions -fasynchronous-unwind-tables  -ftls-model=initial-exec      -I../include -I/build/elf  -I/build  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i686  -I../sysdeps/i386/i686/nptl  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/include -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86  -I../sysdeps/x86/nptl  -I../sysdeps/i386/nptl  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/include -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux  -I../sysdeps/nptl  -I../sysdeps/pthread  -I../sysdeps/gnu  -I../sysdeps/unix/inet  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv  -I../sysdeps/unix/i386  -I../sysdeps/unix  -I../sysdeps/posix  -I../sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu/multiarch  -I../sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu  -I../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch  -I../sysdeps/i386/i686  -I../sysdeps/i386/fpu  -I../sysdeps/x86/fpu  -I../sysdeps/i386  -I../sysdeps/x86/include -I../sysdeps/x86  -I../sysdeps/wordsize-32  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/float128  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96/include -I../sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32  -I../sysdeps/ieee754  -I../sysdeps/generic  -I.. -I../libio -I.  -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include /build/libc-modules.h -DMODULE_NAME=rtld -include ../include/libc-symbols.h  -DPIC -DSHARED     -DTOP_NAMESPACE=glibc -o /build/elf/dl-lookup.os -MD -MP -MF /build/elf/dl-lookup.os.dt -MT /build/elf/dl-lookup.os
In file included from dl-lookup.c:27:
./dl-new-hash.h: In function '_dl_new_hash':
./dl-new-hash.h:30:28: error: pointer targets in initialization of 'const unsigned char *' from 'const char *' differ in signedness [-Werror=pointer-sign]
   30 |   const unsigned char *s = signed_s;
      |                            ^~~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [../o-iterator.mk:9: /build/elf/dl-lookup.os] Error 1
gcc -m32 dl-lookup.c -c -std=gnu11 -fgnu89-inline  -g -O2 -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wundef -Werror -fmerge-all-constants -frounding-math -fno-stack-protector -fno-common -Wstrict-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -fmath-errno    -fpie  -fno-stack-protector -DSTACK_PROTECTOR_LEVEL=0 -Wa,-mtune=i686 -fexceptions -fasynchronous-unwind-tables  -ftls-model=initial-exec      -I../include -I/build/elf  -I/build  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i686  -I../sysdeps/i386/i686/nptl  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/include -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86  -I../sysdeps/x86/nptl  -I../sysdeps/i386/nptl  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/include -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux  -I../sysdeps/nptl  -I../sysdeps/pthread  -I../sysdeps/gnu  -I../sysdeps/unix/inet  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv  -I../sysdeps/unix/i386  -I../sysdeps/unix  -I../sysdeps/posix  -I../sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu/multiarch  -I../sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu  -I../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch  -I../sysdeps/i386/i686  -I../sysdeps/i386/fpu  -I../sysdeps/x86/fpu  -I../sysdeps/i386  -I../sysdeps/x86/include -I../sysdeps/x86  -I../sysdeps/wordsize-32  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/float128  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96/include -I../sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32  -I../sysdeps/ieee754  -I../sysdeps/generic  -I.. -I../libio -I.  -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include /build/libc-modules.h -DMODULE_NAME=libc -include ../include/libc-symbols.h  -DPIC     -DTOP_NAMESPACE=glibc -o /build/elf/dl-lookup.o -MD -MP -MF /build/elf/dl-lookup.o.dt -MT /build/elf/dl-lookup.o
In file included from dl-lookup.c:27:
./dl-new-hash.h: In function '_dl_new_hash':
./dl-new-hash.h:30:28: error: pointer targets in initialization of 'const unsigned char *' from 'const char *' differ in signedness [-Werror=pointer-sign]
   30 |   const unsigned char *s = signed_s;
      |                            ^~~~~~~~

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