In sub-pixel motion search, the search range is small(+/- 3 pixels).
Preload whole search area from reference buffer into a 32-byte
aligned buffer. Then in search, load reference data from this buffer
instead. This keeps data in cache, and reduces the crossing cache-
line penalty. For tulip clip, tests on Intel Core2 Quad machine(linux)
showed encoder speed improvement:
3.4% at --rt --cpu-used =-4
2.8% at --rt --cpu-used =-3
2.3% at --rt --cpu-used =-2
2.2% at --rt --cpu-used =-1
Test on Atom notebook showed only 1.1% speed improvement(speed=-4).
Test on Xeon machine also showed less improvement, since unaligned
data access latency is greatly reduced in newer cores.
Next, I will apply similar idea to other 2 sub-pixel search functions
for encoding speed > 4.
Make this change exclusively for x86 platforms.
Change-Id: Ia7bb9f56169eac0f01009fe2b2f2ab5b61d2eb2f
The encoder defined about 4 set of similar functions to calculate sum,
variance or sse or a combination of them. This commit removed one set
of these functions, get8x8var and get16x16var, where calls to the later
function are replaced with var16x16 by using the fact on a 16x16 MB:
variance == sse - sum*sum/256
Change-Id: I803eabd1fb3ab177780a40338cbd596dffaed267
In NEWMV mode, currently, full search is used as the refining search
after n-step search. By replacing it with an iterative diamond search
of radius 1 largely reduced the computation complexity, but still
maintained the same encoding quality since the refining search is
done for every macroblock instead of only a small precentage of
macroblocks while using full search.
Tests on the test set showed a 3.4% encoding speed increase with none
psnr & ssim loss.
Change-Id: Ife907d7eb9544d15c34f17dc6e4cfd97cb743d41
Renamed configure option "enable-psnr" to "enable-internal-stats" to
better reflect the purpose of the option and eliminate the confusion
reported in http://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=35
Change-Id: If72df6fdb9f1e33dab1329240ba4d8911d2f1f7a
The accumulator array is an integer array, so use paddd instead of paddw
to add values to it. Fixes overflows when using large --arnr-maxframes
(>8) values.
Change-Id: Iad83794caa02400a65f3ab5760f2517e082d66ae
add an sse4 quantizer so we can use pinsrw/pextrw and keep values in xmm
registers instead of proxying through the stack. and as long as we're
bumping up, use some ssse3 instructions in the EOB detection (see ssse3
fast quantizer)
pick up about a percent on 32bit and about two on 64bit.
Change-Id: If15abba0e8b037a1d231c0edf33501545c9d9363
the win64 abi requires saving and restoring xmm6:xmm15. currently
SAVE_XMM and RESTORE XMM only allow for saving xmm6:xmm7. allow
specifying the highest register used and if the stack is unaligned.
Change-Id: Ica5699622ffe3346d3a486f48eef0206c51cf867
Went through the code and fixed it. Verified on Windows.
Where possible, remove dependencies on xmm[67]
Current code relies on pushing rbp to the stack to get 16 byte
alignment. This broke when rbp wasn't pushed
(vp8/encoder/x86/sad_sse3.asm). Work around this by using unaligned
memory accesses. Revisit this and the offsets in
vp8/encoder/x86/sad_sse3.asm in another change to SAVE_XMM.
Change-Id: I5f940994d3ebfd977c3d68446cef20fd78b07877
in encodframe.c, quant_shift is set to 0 or 1 in vp8cx_invert_quant
only use 8 bits to store this, instead of 16. will allow saving an
xmm register in an updated version of the regular quantize
Change-Id: Ie88c47fe2aff5af0283dab1147fb2791e4b12f90
This commit fixed an overflow in ssim calculation, added register
save and restore to make sure assembly code working for x64 platform.
It also changed the sampling points to every 4x4 instead of 8x8 and
adjusted the constants in SSIM calculation to match the scale of
previous VPXSSIM.
Change-Id: Ia4dbb8c69eac55812f4662c88ab4653b6720537b
on the same order as the sse2 fast quantize change: ~2%
except for 32bit. only a slight improvment there.
Change-Id: Iff80e5f1ce7e646eebfdc8871405458ff911986b
rather than look up rc in the zig zag table, embed it in the macro. this
also allows us to shuffle some values in the macro and keep *d in rsi
gains of about the same order as the obj_int_extract implementation: ~2%
Change-Id: Ib7252dd10eee66e0af8b0e567426122781dc053d
remove helper function and avoid shadowing all the arguments to the
stack on 64bit systems
when running with --good --cpu-used=0:
~2% on linux x86 and x86_64
~2% on win32 x86 msys and visual studio
more on darwin10 x86_64
significantly more on
x86_64-win64-vs9
Change-Id: Ib7be12edf511fbf2922f191afd5b33b19a0c4ae6
This declaration did not match the prototype_sad() prototype, but was
unused in this translation unit, so it is removed instead. Fixes
issue 290.
Change-Id: I168854f88a85f73ca9aaf61d1e5dc0f43fc3fdb3
A large number of functions were defined with external linkage, even
though they were only used from within one file. This patch changes
their linkage to static and removes the vp8_ prefix from their names,
which should make it more obvious to the reader that the function is
contained within the current translation unit. Functions that were
not referenced were removed.
These symbols were identified by:
$ nm -A libvpx.a | sort -k3 | uniq -c -f2 | grep ' [A-Z] ' \
| sort | grep '^ *1 '
Change-Id: I59609f58ab65312012c047036ae1e0634f795779
1. Process 16 pixels at one time instead of 8.
2. Add check for both xoffset =0 and yoffset=0, which happens
during motion search.
This change gave encoder 1%~3% performance gain.
Change-Id: Idaa39506b48f4f8b2fbbeb45aae8226fa32afb3e
In real-time mode, vp8_sad16x16 function is called heavily in
motion search part. Improvement of this function gives 1.2%
encoding performance gain (real-time mode, tulip clip).
Change-Id: I23c401fc40c061f732a9767e8d383737a179bd58
In sub-pixel calculation, xoffset and yoffset mostly take some
specific values. Modified sub-pixel filter functions according to
these possible values to improve performance.
Change-Id: I83083570af8b00ff65093467914fbb97a4e9ea21
Remove allocation/deallocation of stats storage.
Remove full search functions in machine specific encoder inits.
Remove last pass validation in validate_config.
Change-Id: I7f29be69273981a4fef6e80ecdb6217c68cbad4e
