FYI,

I forgot to comment in the commit message:

I kept the original code for 64 bit because while using r2b works in 64 bits, using it severely hurt performance to the point that it was well below c code.

This is probably due to how things like instruction order, length and layout in memory can affect performance(see agner docs).

This probably leaves some room for performance improvements since most X265 assembler is based primarily on algorithms implementing x265 functionality but not all aspects of processor function. While writing optimized assembler for every processor is unrealistic, the assembler of each simd level could be optimized for the latest processor that supports it.(i.e. the sse4 assembler could be optimized to support the latest processor that support only up to sse4).

One downside is these types of optimizations are more likely to generate code that looks like the jumbled code generated by a compiler and thus be less easy to read, understand and maintain. Of course more comments can help here.

Is x265 interested in such optimizations?

On 02/25/2015 08:31 PM, Deepthi Nandakumar wrote:
Thanks, pushed.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:03 AM, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    # HG changeset patch
    # User David T Yuen <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
    # Date 1424917924 28800
    # Node ID 13346cb90bff040492f0688226f44182bb6b97d8
    # Parent  74c716607444c77b9d5ea1dce5b99c875f0b20fe
    Fixed 32 bit bug in intrapred dc4 sse2

    Changed register written from to one that supports low byte access
    in 32 bit
    Also moved pw_257 constant to const-a.asm

    diff -r 74c716607444 -r 13346cb90bff source/common/x86/const-a.asm
    --- a/source/common/x86/const-a.asm     Tue Feb 24 13:39:16 2015 +0530
    +++ b/source/common/x86/const-a.asm     Wed Feb 25 18:32:04 2015 -0800
    @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     const pw_32,       times 16 dw 32
     const pw_128,      times 16 dw 128
     const pw_256,      times 16 dw 256
    +const pw_257,      times 16 dw 257
     const pw_512,      times 16 dw 512
     const pw_1023,     times 8  dw 1023
     const pw_1024,     times 16 dw 1024
    diff -r 74c716607444 -r 13346cb90bff source/common/x86/intrapred8.asm
    --- a/source/common/x86/intrapred8.asm  Tue Feb 24 13:39:16 2015 +0530
    +++ b/source/common/x86/intrapred8.asm  Wed Feb 25 18:32:04 2015 -0800
    @@ -65,8 +65,6 @@
     pw_planar32_L:        dw 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24
     pw_planar32_H:        dw 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16

    -pw_257:         times 8 dw 257
    -
     const ang_table
     %assign x 0
     %rep 32
    @@ -80,6 +78,7 @@
     cextern pw_8
     cextern pw_16
     cextern pw_32
    +cextern pw_257
     cextern pw_1024
     cextern pb_unpackbd1
     cextern multiL
    @@ -144,12 +143,21 @@
         paddw       m2, m1
         psraw       m2, 2
         packuswb    m2, m2
    +%if ARCH_X86_64
         movq        r4, m2
         mov         [r0], r4b
         shr         r4, 8
         mov         [r0 + r1], r4b
         shr         r4, 8
         mov         [r0 + r1 * 2], r4b
    +%else
    +    movd        r2d, m2
    +    mov         [r0], r2b
    +    shr         r2, 8
    +    mov         [r0 + r1], r2b
    +    shr         r2, 8
    +    mov         [r0 + r1 * 2], r2b
    +%endif
     .end:
         RET

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