From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Ants Aasma <ants.aasma@cybertec.at>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Amonson, Paul D <paul.d.amonson@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Shankaran, Akash <akash.shankaran@intel.com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Popcount optimization using AVX512
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 17:15:12 -0500
Message-ID: <20240401221512.GA2511488@nathanxps13> (raw)
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 01:09:57AM +0300, Ants Aasma wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 at 00:31, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 12:11:59AM +0300, Ants Aasma wrote:
>> > What about using the masking capabilities of AVX-512 to handle the
>> > tail in the same code path? Masked out portions of a load instruction
>> > will not generate an exception. To allow byte level granularity
>> > masking, -mavx512bw is needed. Based on wikipedia this will only
>> > disable this fast path on Knights Mill (Xeon Phi), in all other cases
>> > VPOPCNTQ implies availability of BW.
>>
>> Sounds promising. IMHO we should really be sure that these kinds of loads
>> won't generate segfaults and the like due to the masked-out portions. I
>> searched around a little bit but haven't found anything that seemed
>> definitive.
>
> Interestingly the Intel software developer manual is not exactly
> crystal clear on how memory faults with masks work, but volume 2A
> chapter 2.8 [1] does specify that MOVDQU8 is of exception class E4.nb
> that supports memory fault suppression on page fault.
Perhaps Paul or Akash could chime in here...
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Nathan Bossart
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