We already rely on autovectorization for computing page checksums,
but on x86 we can get a further several-fold performance increase by
annotating pg_checksum_block() with a function target attribute for
the AVX2 instruction set extension. Not only does that use 256-bit
registers, it can also use vector multiplication rather than the
vector shifts and adds used in SSE2.
Similar to other hardware-specific paths, we set a function pointer
on first use. We don't bother to avoid this on platforms without AVX2
since the overhead of indirect calls doesn't matter for multi-kilobyte
inputs. However, we do arrange so that only core has the function
pointer mechanism. External programs will continue to build a normal
static function and don't need to be aware of this.
This matters most when using io_uring since in that case the checksum
computation is not done in parallel by IO workers.
Co-authored-by: Matthew Sterrett <matthewsterrett2@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Andrew Kim <andrew.kim@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Tselebrovskiy <o.tselebrovskiy@postgrespro.ru>
Tested-by: Ants Aasma <ants.aasma@cybertec.at>
Tested-by: Stepan Neretin <slpmcf@gmail.com> (earlier version)
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