aarch64: vp9: Implement NEON loop filters

Multimedia / Libav - Martin Storsjö [martin.st] - 13 November 2016 16:10 UTC

This work is sponsored by, and copyright, Google.

These are ported from the ARM version; thanks to the larger amount of registers available, we can do the loop filters with 16 pixels at a time. The implementation is fully templated, with a single macro which can generate versions for both 8 and 16 pixels wide, for both 4, 8 and 16 pixels loop filters (and the 4/8 mixed versions as well).

For the 8 pixel wide versions, it is pretty close in speed (the
v_4_8 and v_8_8 filters are the best examples of this; the h_4_8 and h_8_8 filters seem to get some gain in the load/transpose/store part). For the 16 pixels wide ones, we get a speedup of around 1.2-1.4x compared to the 32 bit version.

Examples of runtimes vs the 32 bit version, on a Cortex A53: ARM AArch64
vp9_loop_filter_h_4_8_neon: 144.0 127.2
vp9_loop_filter_h_8_8_neon: 207.0 182.5
vp9_loop_filter_h_16_8_neon: 415.0 328.7
vp9_loop_filter_h_16_16_neon: 672.0 558.6
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_h_44_16_neon: 302.0 203.5
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_h_48_16_neon: 365.0 305.2
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_h_84_16_neon: 365.0 305.2
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_h_88_16_neon: 376.0 305.2
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_v_44_16_neon: 193.2 128.2
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_v_48_16_neon: 246.7 218.4
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_v_84_16_neon: 248.0 218.5
vp9_loop_filter_mix2_v_88_16_neon: 302.0 218.2
vp9_loop_filter_v_4_8_neon: 89.0 88.7
vp9_loop_filter_v_8_8_neon: 141.0 137.7
vp9_loop_filter_v_16_8_neon: 295.0 272.7
vp9_loop_filter_v_16_16_neon: 546.0 453.7

The speedup vs C code in checkasm tests is around 2-7x, which is pretty much the same as for the 32 bit version. Even if these functions are faster than their 32 bit equivalent, the C version that we compare to also became around 1.3-1.7x faster than the C version in 32 bit.

Based on START_TIMER/STOP_TIMER wrapping around a few individual functions, the speedup vs C code is around 4-5x.

Examples of runtimes vs C on a Cortex A57 (for a slightly older version of the patch): A57 gcc-5.3 neon loop_filter_h_4_8_neon: 256.6 93.4 loop_filter_h_8_8_neon: 307.3 139.1 loop_filter_h_16_8_neon: 340.1 254.1 loop_filter_h_16_16_neon: 827.0 407.9 loop_filter_mix2_h_44_16_neon: 524.5 155.4 loop_filter_mix2_h_48_16_neon: 644.5 173.3 loop_filter_mix2_h_84_16_neon: 630.5 222.0 loop_filter_mix2_h_88_16_neon: 697.3 222.0 loop_filter_mix2_v_44_16_neon: 598.5 100.6 loop_filter_mix2_v_48_16_neon: 651.5 127.0 loop_filter_mix2_v_84_16_neon: 591.5 167.1 loop_filter_mix2_v_88_16_neon: 855.1 166.7 loop_filter_v_4_8_neon: 271.7 65.3 loop_filter_v_8_8_neon: 312.5 106.9 loop_filter_v_16_8_neon: 473.3 206.5 loop_filter_v_16_16_neon: 976.1 327.8

The speed-up compared to the C functions is 2.5 to 6 and the cortex-a57 is again 30-50% faster than the cortex-a53.

9d2afd1 aarch64: vp9: Implement NEON loop filters
libavcodec/aarch64/Makefile | 1 +
libavcodec/aarch64/vp9dsp_init_aarch64.c | 45 +
libavcodec/aarch64/vp9lpf_neon.S | 1355 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 1401 insertions(+)

Upstream: git.libav.org

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