A new version of vp9_highbd_error_8bit is now available which is
optimized with AVX assembly. AVX itself does not buy us too much, but
the non-destructive 3 operand format encoding of the 128bit SSEn integer
instructions helps to eliminate move instructions. The Sandy Bridge
micro-architecture cannot eliminate move instructions in the processor
front end, so AVX will help on these machines.
Further 2 optimizations are applied:
1. The common case of computing block error on 4x4 blocks is optimized
as a special case.
2. All arithmetic is speculatively done on 32 bits only. At the end of
the loop, the code detects if overflow might have happened and if so,
the whole computation is re-executed using higher precision arithmetic.
This case however is extremely rare in real use, so we can achieve a
large net gain here.
The optimizations rely on the fact that the coefficients are in the
range [-(2^15-1), 2^15-1], and that the quantized coefficients always
have the same sign as the input coefficients (in the worst case they are
0). These are the same assumptions that the old SSE2 assembly code for
the non high bitdepth configuration relied on. The unit tests have been
updated to take this constraint into consideration when generating test
input data.
Change-Id: I57d9888a74715e7145a5d9987d67891ef68f39b7
If high bit depth configuration is enabled, but encoding in profile 0,
the code now falls back on optimized SSE2 assembler to compute the
block errors, similar to when high bit depth is not enabled.
Change-Id: I471d1494e541de61a4008f852dbc0d548856484f
Various header/test files had to be re-worked in order to
build "Remove cm parameter from vp9_decode_block_tokens()".
This patch reverts the "Remove cm" part and only contains
the re-worked header files.
Change-Id: I520958a88d1991fee988a3c784d0eac40e117a32
this macro was used inconsistently and only differs in behavior from
DECLARE_ALIGNED when an alignment attribute is unavailable. this macro
is used with calls to assembly, while generic c-code doesn't rely on it,
so in a c-only build without an alignment attribute the code will
function as expected.
Change-Id: Ie9d06d4028c0de17c63b3a27e6c1b0491cc4ea79
