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2021-01-02Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-01-01Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2019-06-14Fix typos and inconsistencies in code commentsMichael Paquier
Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dec6aae8-2d63-639f-4d50-20e229fb83e3@gmail.com
2019-05-22Initial pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane
This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent. I thought it would be good to commit this separately, so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-02-15Make use of compiler builtins and/or assembly for CLZ, CTZ, POPCNT.Tom Lane
Test for the compiler builtins __builtin_clz, __builtin_ctz, and __builtin_popcount, and make use of these in preference to handwritten C code if they're available. Create src/port infrastructure for "leftmost one", "rightmost one", and "popcount" so as to centralize these decisions. On x86_64, __builtin_popcount generally won't make use of the POPCNT opcode because that's not universally supported yet. Provide code that checks CPUID and then calls POPCNT via asm() if available. This requires indirecting through a function pointer, which is an annoying amount of overhead for a one-instruction operation, but it's probably not worth working harder than this for our current use-cases. I'm not sure we've found all the existing places that could profit from this new infrastructure; but we at least touched all the ones that used copied-and-pasted versions of the bitmapset.c code, and got rid of multiple copies of the associated constant arrays. While at it, replace c-compiler.m4's one-per-builtin-function macros with a single one that can handle all the cases we need to worry about so far. Also, because I'm paranoid, make those checks into AC_LINK checks rather than just AC_COMPILE; the former coding failed to verify that libgcc has support for the builtin, in cases where it's not inline code. David Rowley, Thomas Munro, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9WTAGG1tPeJnD18hiQW5gAk59fQ6WK-vfdAKEHyRg2RA@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-15Revert attempts to use POPCNT etc instructionsAlvaro Herrera
This reverts commits fc6c72747ae6, 109de05cbb03, d0b4663c23b7 and 711bab1e4d19. Somebody will have to try harder before submitting this patch again. I've spent entirely too much time on it already, and the #ifdef maze yet to be written in order for it to build at all got on my nerves. The amount of work needed to get a platform-specific performance improvement that's barely above the noise level is not worth it.
2019-02-15Fix compiler builtin usage in new pg_bitutils.cAlvaro Herrera
Split out these new functions in three parts: one in a new file that uses the compiler builtin and gets compiled with the -mpopcnt compiler option if it exists; another one that uses the compiler builtin but not the compiler option; and finally the fallback with open-coded algorithms. Split out the configure logic: in the original commit, it was selecting to use the -mpopcnt compiler switch together with deciding whether to use the compiler builtin, but those two things are really separate. Split them out. Also, expose whether the builtin exists to Makefile.global, so that src/port's Makefile can decide whether to compile the hw-optimized file. Remove CPUID test for CTZ/CLZ. Make pg_{right,left}most_ones use either the compiler intrinsic or open-coded algo; trying to use the HW-optimized version is a waste of time. Make them static inline functions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190213221719.GA15976@alvherre.pgsql
2019-02-13Fix portability issues in pg_bitutilsAlvaro Herrera
We were using uint64 function arguments as "long int" arguments to compiler builtins, which fails on machines where long ints are 32 bits: the upper half of the uint64 was being ignored. Fix by using the "ll" builtin variants instead, which on those machines take 64 bit arguments. Also, remove configure tests for __builtin_popcountl() (as well as "long" variants for ctz and clz): the theory here is that any compiler version will provide all widths or none, so one test suffices. Were this theory to be wrong, we'd have to add tests for __builtin_popcountll() and friends, which would be tedious. Per failures in buildfarm member lapwing and ensuing discussion.
2019-02-13Add basic support for using the POPCNT and SSE4.2s LZCNT opcodesAlvaro Herrera
These opcodes have been around in the AMD world since 2007, and 2008 in the case of intel. They're supported in GCC and Clang via some __builtin macros. The opcodes may be unavailable during runtime, in which case we fall back on a C-based implementation of the code. In order to get the POPCNT instruction we must pass the -mpopcnt option to the compiler. We do this only for the pg_bitutils.c file. David Rowley (with fragments taken from a patch by Thomas Munro) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9WTAGG1tPeJnD18hiQW5gAk59fQ6WK-vfdAKEHyRg2RA@mail.gmail.com