This is implemented for a vector size of 128-bit. Since the scalar
product in the inner loop covers 5 samples or 160 bits, we need a group
multipler of 2.
To avoid reconfiguring the vector type, the outer loop, which loads
multiple input samples sticks to the same multipler. Consequently, the
outer loop loads 8 samples per iteration. This is safe since the minimum
period of the CELT codec is 15 samples.
The same code would also work, albeit needlessly inefficiently with a
vector length of 256 bits. A proper implementation will follow instead.
Simply taking the Zbb REV8 instruction into use in a simple loop gives
some significant savings:
bswap_buf_c: 1081.0
bswap_buf_rvb_b: 771.0
But we can also use the 64-bit REV8 as a pseudo-SIMD instruction with
just one additional shift, and one fewer load, effectively doubling the
bandwidth. Consequently, this patch is useful even if the compile-time
target has Zbb enabled for C code:
bswap_buf_c: 1081.0
bswap_buf_rvb_b: 341.0 (this patch)
On the other hand, this approach fails miserably for bswap16_buf as the
ratio of shifts and stores becomes unfavorable compared to naïve C:
bswap16_buf_c: 1542.0
bswap16_buf_rvb_b: 1803.7
Unrolling to process 128 bits (4 samples) at a time actually worsens
performance ever so slightly:
bswap_buf_c: 1081.0
bswap_buf_rvb_b: 408.5
To avoid data dependencies, this does the following unroll, which
requires one extra but probably free addition:
coeff = (b * left_weight) >> decorr_shift;
b += a;
a -= coeff;
b -= coeff;
swap(a, b);
This uses the following vectorisation:
for (i = 0; i < blocksize; i++) {
ang[i] = mag[i] - copysignf(fmaxf(ang[i], 0.f), mag[i]);
mag[i] = mag[i] - copysignf(fminf(ang[i], 0.f), mag[i]);
}
RV64G supports MIN & MAX instructions natively only on floating point
registers, not general purpose ones. The later would require the Zbb
extension. Due to that, it is actually faster to perform the clipping
"properly" in FPU.
Benchmarks on SiFive U74-MC (courtesy of Shanghai StarFive Tech):
audiodsp.vector_clipf_c: 29551.5
audiodsp.vector_clipf_rvf: 17871.0
Also tried unrolling with 2 or 8 elements but it gets worse either way.
