[Pixman] [PATCH 00/14] Repost of (mostly) ARMv6 patches

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On Wed,  2 Oct 2013 00:00:20 +0100
Ben Avison <bavison at riscosopen.org> wrote:

> I posted a number of patches earlier this year. Some were pushed, one was
> disputed (as I recall, it was questioned whether the Cairo traces it was
> optimising weren't better fixed in the application instead), and a number
> of following ones didn't get pushed because the profiling benchmarks
> contained in their commit logs had been performed with the disputed patch
> in place.

Hmm, sorry if it looked this way. I think your patch set just fell
through the cracks mostly because of the other discussions ongoing at
the same time and some unrelated things that were distracting.

In the case of doubt, just ping people on irc, or on the mailing list.

> It's taken a while, but I've finally got round to rebasing the remaining
> patches and re-profiling them all. The results are generally very similar,
> other than the fact that the two over_n_8888 patches now don't show any
> measurable improvement on the Cairo profiles. However, they also don't
> show any measurable regression either, and the lowlevel-blt-bench scores
> indicate that they may still be useful for any applications that do
> actually use them.
> 
> A number of these patches do show a significant speed improvement on
> ARMv6, so I hope they will be acceptable now.
> 
> Ben Avison (14):
>   ARMv6: Fix some indentation in the composite macros
>   ARMv6: Minor optimisation
>   ARMv6: Support for very variable-hungry composite operations
>   ARMv6: Add fast path flag to force no preload of destination buffer
>   ARMv6: Force fast paths to have fixed alignment to the BTAC
>   Add extra test to lowlevel-blt-bench and fix an existing one
>   ARMv6: Macro to permit testing for early returns or alternate
>     implementations
>   Add generic fast path for over_n_8888
>   ARMv6: add platform-specific fast path for over_n_8888
>   ARMv6: Added fast path for over_n_8888_8888_ca
>   ARMv6: Add fast path for in_reverse_8888_8888
>   ARMv6: Add fast path for over_reverse_n_8888
>   ARMv6: Add fast path for add_8888_8888
>   ARMv6: Add fast path for src_x888_0565
> 
>  pixman/pixman-arm-simd-asm.S |  632 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  pixman/pixman-arm-simd-asm.h |  122 ++++++--
>  pixman/pixman-arm-simd.c     |   43 +++
>  pixman/pixman-fast-path.c    |   41 +++
>  test/lowlevel-blt-bench.c    |    3 +-
>  5 files changed, 815 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

Thanks. I'll have a closer look at all the arm assembly patches during
the next few days.

-- 
Best regards,
Siarhei Siamashka