- Benchmark memory block is increased to 128kiB to reflect real block sizes more
accurately. Measurements include all three stages needed for checksum generation,
i.e. `init()/compute()/fini()`. The inner loop is repeated multiple times to offset
overhead of time function.
- Fastest implementation selects native and byteswap methods independently in
benchmark. To support this new function pointers `init_byteswap()/fini_byteswap()`
are introduced.
- Implementation mutex lock is replaced by atomic variable.
- To save time, benchmark is not executed in userspace. Instead, highest supported
implementation is used for fastest. Default userspace selector is still 'cycle'.
- `fletcher_4_native/byteswap()` methods use incremental methods to finish
calculation if data size is not multiple of vector stride (currently 64B).
- Added `fletcher_4_native_varsize()` special purpose method for use when buffer size
is not known in advance. The method does not enforce 4B alignment on buffer size, and
will ignore last (size % 4) bytes of the data buffer.
- Benchmark `kstat` is changed to match the one of vdev_raidz. It now shows
throughput for all supported implementations (in B/s), native and byteswap,
as well as the code [fastest] is running.
Example of `fletcher_4_bench` running on `Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v3 @ 2.60GHz`:
implementation native byteswap
scalar 4768120823 3426105750
sse2 7947841777 4318964249
ssse3 7951922722 6112191941
avx2 13269714358 11043200912
fastest avx2 avx2
Example of `fletcher_4_bench` running on `Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) CPU 7210 @ 1.30GHz`:
implementation native byteswap
scalar 1291115967 1031555336
sse2 2539571138 1280970926
ssse3 2537778746 1080016762
avx2 4950749767 1078493449
avx512f 9581379998 4010029046
fastest avx512f avx512f
Signed-off-by: Gvozden Neskovic <neskovic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#4952
In some cases, the compiler was not respecting the GNU aligned
attribute for stack variables in 35a76a0. This was resulting in
a segfault on CentOS 6.7 hosts using gcc 4.4.7-17. This issue
was fixed in gcc 4.6.
To prevent this from occurring, use unaligned loads and stores
for all stack and global memory references in the SSE optimized
Fletcher-4 code.
Disable zimport testing against master where this flaw exists:
TEST_ZIMPORT_VERSIONS="installed"
Signed-off-by: Tyler J. Stachecki <stachecki.tyler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gvozden Neskovic <neskovic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#4862
Builds off of 1eeb4562 (Implementation of AVX2 optimized Fletcher-4)
This commit adds another implementation of the Fletcher-4 algorithm.
It is automatically selected at module load if it benchmarks higher
than all other available implementations.
The module benchmark was also amended to analyze the performance of
the byteswap-ed version of Fletcher-4, as well as the non-byteswaped
version. The average performance of the two is used to select the
the fastest implementation available on the host system.
Adds a pair of fields to an existing zcommon module parameter:
- zfs_fletcher_4_impl (str)
"sse2" - new SSE2 implementation if available
"ssse3" - new SSSE3 implementation if available
Signed-off-by: Tyler J. Stachecki <stachecki.tyler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gvozden Neskovic <neskovic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#4789
Gvozden Neskovic
Tyler J. Stachecki