While benchmarking uint128 division we found out that it has huge latency for small divisors
https://reviews.llvm.org/D83027
Benchmark Time(ns) CPU(ns) Iterations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BM_DivideIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<unsigned __int128> 13.0 13.0 55000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<__int128> 14.3 14.3 50000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<unsigned __int128> 13.5 13.5 52000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<__int128> 14.1 14.1 50000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<unsigned __int128> 153 153 5000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<__int128> 170 170 3000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<unsigned __int128> 153 153 5000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<__int128> 155 155 5000000
This patch suggests a more optimized version of the division:
If the divisor is 64 bit, we can proceed with the divq instruction on x86 or constant multiplication mechanisms for other platforms. Once both divisor and dividend are not less than 2**64, we use branch free subtract algorithm, it has at most 64 cycles. After that our benchmarks improved significantly
Benchmark Time(ns) CPU(ns) Iterations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BM_DivideIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<unsigned __int128> 11.0 11.0 64000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<__int128> 13.8 13.8 51000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<unsigned __int128> 11.6 11.6 61000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<__int128> 13.7 13.7 52000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<unsigned __int128> 27.1 27.1 26000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<__int128> 29.4 29.4 24000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<unsigned __int128> 27.9 27.8 26000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<__int128> 29.1 29.1 25000000
If not using divq instrinsics, it is still much better
Benchmark Time(ns) CPU(ns) Iterations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BM_DivideIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<unsigned __int128> 12.2 12.2 58000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<__int128> 13.5 13.5 52000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<unsigned __int128> 12.7 12.7 56000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<__int128> 13.7 13.7 51000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<unsigned __int128> 30.2 30.2 24000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<__int128> 33.2 33.2 22000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<unsigned __int128> 31.4 31.4 23000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<__int128> 33.8 33.8 21000000
PowerPC benchmarks:
Was
BM_DivideIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<unsigned __int128> 22.3 22.3 32000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<__int128> 23.8 23.8 30000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<unsigned __int128> 22.5 22.5 32000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<__int128> 24.9 24.9 29000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<unsigned __int128> 394 394 2000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<__int128> 397 397 2000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<unsigned __int128> 399 399 2000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<__int128> 397 397 2000000
With this patch
BM_DivideIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<unsigned __int128> 21.7 21.7 33000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<__int128> 23.0 23.0 31000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<unsigned __int128> 21.9 21.9 33000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128UniformDivisor<__int128> 23.9 23.9 30000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<unsigned __int128> 32.7 32.6 23000000 BM_DivideIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<__int128> 33.4 33.4 21000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<unsigned __int128> 31.1 31.1 22000000 BM_RemainderIntrinsic128SmallDivisor<__int128> 33.2 33.2 22000000
My email: danilak@google.com, I don't have commit rights
clang-tidy: warning: invalid case style for parameter 'u1' [readability-identifier-naming]
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clang-tidy: warning: invalid case style for parameter 'u0' [readability-identifier-naming]
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clang-tidy: warning: invalid case style for parameter 'v' [readability-identifier-naming]
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