Code didn't actually use any sse4 instructions since `ptest` was
removed in:
commit 2f9062d717
Author: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Nov 10 16:18:56 2021 -0600
x86: Shrink memcmp-sse4.S code size
The new memcmp-sse2 implementation is also faster.
geometric_mean(N=20) of page cross cases SSE2 / SSE4: 0.905
Note there are two regressions preferring SSE2 for Size = 1 and Size =
65.
Size = 1:
size, align0, align1, ret, New Time/Old Time
1, 1, 1, 0, 1.2
1, 1, 1, 1, 1.197
1, 1, 1, -1, 1.2
This is intentional. Size == 1 is significantly less hot based on
profiles of GCC11 and Python3 than sizes [4, 8] (which is made
hotter).
Python3 Size = 1 -> 13.64%
Python3 Size = [4, 8] -> 60.92%
GCC11 Size = 1 -> 1.29%
GCC11 Size = [4, 8] -> 33.86%
size, align0, align1, ret, New Time/Old Time
4, 4, 4, 0, 0.622
4, 4, 4, 1, 0.797
4, 4, 4, -1, 0.805
5, 5, 5, 0, 0.623
5, 5, 5, 1, 0.777
5, 5, 5, -1, 0.802
6, 6, 6, 0, 0.625
6, 6, 6, 1, 0.813
6, 6, 6, -1, 0.788
7, 7, 7, 0, 0.625
7, 7, 7, 1, 0.799
7, 7, 7, -1, 0.795
8, 8, 8, 0, 0.625
8, 8, 8, 1, 0.848
8, 8, 8, -1, 0.914
9, 9, 9, 0, 0.625
Size = 65:
size, align0, align1, ret, New Time/Old Time
65, 0, 0, 0, 1.103
65, 0, 0, 1, 1.216
65, 0, 0, -1, 1.227
65, 65, 0, 0, 1.091
65, 0, 65, 1, 1.19
65, 65, 65, -1, 1.215
This is because A) the checks in range [65, 96] are now unrolled 2x
and B) because smaller values <= 16 are now given a hotter path. By
contrast the SSE4 version has a branch for Size = 80. The unrolled
version has get better performance for returns which need both
comparisons.
size, align0, align1, ret, New Time/Old Time
128, 4, 8, 0, 0.858
128, 4, 8, 1, 0.879
128, 4, 8, -1, 0.888
As well, out of microbenchmark environments that are not full
predictable the branch will have a real-cost.
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7cbc03d030)
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