On 23/5/23 15:11, Alex Bennée wrote:
Balton discovered that asserts for the extract/deposit calls had a

Zoltan

significant impact on a lame benchmark on qemu-ppc. Replicating with:

   ./qemu-ppc64 ~/lsrc/tests/lame.git-svn/builds/ppc64/frontend/lame \
     -h pts-trondheim-3.wav pts-trondheim-3.mp3

showed up the pack/unpack routines not eliding the assert checks as it
should have done causing them to prominently figure in the profile:

Worth mentioning "even using --disable-debug"?

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org>

   11.44%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] unpack_raw64.isra.0
   11.03%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] parts64_uncanon_normal
    8.26%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] helper_compute_fprf_float64
    6.75%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] do_float_check_status
    5.34%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] parts64_muladd
    4.75%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] pack_raw64.isra.0
    4.38%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] parts64_canonicalize
    3.62%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] 
float64r32_round_pack_canonical

After this patch the same test runs 31 seconds faster with a profile
where the generated code dominates more:

+   14.12%     0.00%  qemu-ppc64  [unknown]                [.] 
0x0000004000619420
+   13.30%     0.00%  qemu-ppc64  [unknown]                [.] 
0x0000004000616850
+   12.58%    12.19%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] 
parts64_uncanon_normal
+   10.62%     0.00%  qemu-ppc64  [unknown]                [.] 
0x000000400061bf70
+    9.91%     9.73%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] 
helper_compute_fprf_float64
+    7.84%     7.82%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] 
do_float_check_status
+    6.47%     5.78%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] 
parts64_canonicalize.constprop.0
+    6.46%     0.00%  qemu-ppc64  [unknown]                [.] 
0x0000004000620130
+    6.42%     0.00%  qemu-ppc64  [unknown]                [.] 
0x0000004000619400
+    6.17%     6.04%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] parts64_muladd
+    5.85%     0.00%  qemu-ppc64  [unknown]                [.] 
0x00000040006167e0
+    5.74%     0.00%  qemu-ppc64  [unknown]                [.] 
0x0000b693fcffffd3
+    5.45%     4.78%  qemu-ppc64  qemu-ppc64               [.] 
float64r32_round_pack_canonical

Suggested-by: Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <ec9cfe5a-d5f2-466d-34dc-c35817e7e...@linaro.org>
[AJB: Patchified rth's suggestion]
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
Cc: BALATON Zoltan <bala...@eik.bme.hu>
---
  fpu/softfloat.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)



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