There is no known (real) hardware with V and without the complete B
extension. B was indeed required in the RISC-V application profile from
2022, earlier than V. There should not be any relevant hardware in the
future either.
In practice, different R-V Vector optimisations in FFmpeg already depend on
every constituent of the B extension anyhow, so it would not work well.
hf_apply_noise_0_c: 35.7
hf_apply_noise_0_rvv_f32: 9.5
hf_apply_noise_1_c: 38.5
hf_apply_noise_1_rvv_f32: 10.0
hf_apply_noise_2_c: 35.5
hf_apply_noise_2_rvv_f32: 9.7
hf_apply_noise_3_c: 38.5
hf_apply_noise_3_rvv_f32: 10.0
Maybe extending the noise table manually is not such great idea, but I
not quite sure how to deal with that otherwise? Allocating the table
dynamically is possible but would require an ELF destructor to clean up.
128-bit is the maximum, not the minimum here. Larger vector sizes can
result in reads past the end of the noise value table.
This partially reverts commit cdcb4b98b7.
While this function can easily be written with vectors, it just fails to
get any performance improvement.
For reference, this is a simpler loop-free implementation that does get
better performance than the current one depending on hardware, but still
more or less the same metrics as the C code:
func ff_sbr_neg_odd_64_rvv, zve64x
li a1, 32
addi a0, a0, 7
li t0, 8
vsetvli zero, a1, e8, m2, ta, ma
li t1, 0x80
vlse8.v v8, (a0), t0
vxor.vx v8, v8, t1
vsse8.v v8, (a0), t0
ret
endfunc
This reverts commit d06fd18f8f.
This is restricted to 128-bit vectors as larger vector sizes could read
past the end of the noise array. Support for future hardware with larger
vector sizes is left for some other time.
hf_apply_noise_0_c: 2319.7
hf_apply_noise_0_rvv_f32: 1229.0
hf_apply_noise_1_c: 2539.0
hf_apply_noise_1_rvv_f32: 1244.7
hf_apply_noise_2_c: 2319.7
hf_apply_noise_2_rvv_f32: 1232.7
hf_apply_noise_3_c: 2541.2
hf_apply_noise_3_rvv_f32: 1244.2
With 5 accumulator vectors and 6 inputs, this can only use LMUL=2.
Also the number of vector loop iterations is small, just 5 on 128-bit
vector hardware.
The vector loop is somewhat unusual in that it processes data in
descending memory order, in order to save on vector slides:
in descending order, we can extract elements to carry over to the next
iteration from the bottom of the vectors directly. With ascending order
(see in the Opus postfilter function), there are no ways to get the top
elements directly. On the downside, this requires the use of separate
shift and sub (the would-be SH3SUB instruction does not exist), with
a small pipeline stall on the vector load address.
The edge cases in scalar are done in scalar as this saves on loads
and remains significantly faster than C.
autocorrelate_c: 669.2
autocorrelate_rvv_f32: 421.0
With 128-bit vectors, this is mostly pointless but also harmless.
Performance gains should be more noticeable with larger vector sizes.
neg_odd_64_c: 76.2
neg_odd_64_rvv_i64: 74.7
