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From c5806d668f84a86e9e6a522f84b8aa6cb4cdaae9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 20:46:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Enable unaligned accesses on arm64

64-bit Arm platforms support unaligned accesses.

Running the string benchmarks this change improves performance
by an average of 1.04x, min .96x, max 1.21x, median 1.01x
---
 include/ruby/defines.h         | 2 +-
 regint.h                       | 2 +-
 siphash.c                      | 2 +-
 st.c                           | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/ruby/defines.h b/include/ruby/defines.h
index 49f673ef936a..0193275e8b78 100644
--- a/include/ruby/defines.h
+++ b/include/ruby/defines.h
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@
 #ifndef UNALIGNED_WORD_ACCESS
 # if defined(__i386) || defined(__i386__) || defined(_M_IX86) || \
      defined(__x86_64) || defined(__x86_64__) || defined(_M_AMD64) || \
-     defined(__powerpc64__) || \
+     defined(__powerpc64__) || defined(__aarch64__) || \
      defined(__mc68020__)
 #   define UNALIGNED_WORD_ACCESS 1
 # else
diff --git a/regint.h b/regint.h
index a2f5bbba1d1f..0740429688bc 100644
--- a/regint.h
+++ b/regint.h
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 #ifndef UNALIGNED_WORD_ACCESS
 # if defined(__i386) || defined(__i386__) || defined(_M_IX86) || \
      defined(__x86_64) || defined(__x86_64__) || defined(_M_AMD64) || \
-     defined(__powerpc64__) || \
+     defined(__powerpc64__) || defined(__aarch64__) || \
      defined(__mc68020__)
 #  define UNALIGNED_WORD_ACCESS 1
 # else
diff --git a/siphash.c b/siphash.c
index 153d2c690ab9..ddf8ee245d81 100644
--- a/siphash.c
+++ b/siphash.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 #ifndef UNALIGNED_WORD_ACCESS
 # if defined(__i386) || defined(__i386__) || defined(_M_IX86) || \
      defined(__x86_64) || defined(__x86_64__) || defined(_M_AMD64) || \
-     defined(__powerpc64__) || \
+     defined(__powerpc64__) || defined(__aarch64__) || \
      defined(__mc68020__)
 #   define UNALIGNED_WORD_ACCESS 1
 # endif
diff --git a/st.c b/st.c
index c11535ef9779..8be466bf733f 100644
--- a/st.c
+++ b/st.c
@@ -1815,7 +1815,7 @@ st_values_check(st_table *tab, st_data_t *values, st_index_t size,
 #ifndef UNALIGNED_WORD_ACCESS
 # if defined(__i386) || defined(__i386__) || defined(_M_IX86) || \
      defined(__x86_64) || defined(__x86_64__) || defined(_M_AMD64) || \
-     defined(__powerpc64__) || \
+     defined(__powerpc64__) || defined(__aarch64__) || \
      defined(__mc68020__)
 #   define UNALIGNED_WORD_ACCESS 1
 # endif

From 79b7b9143fda0f33fc9375980cecc61eb42c6f66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 21:04:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] arm64 enable gc optimizations

Similar to x86 and powerpc optimizations.

|       |compare-ruby|built-ruby|
|:------|-----------:|---------:|
|hash1  |       0.225|     0.237|
|       |           -|     1.05x|
|hash2  |       0.110|     0.110|
|       |       1.00x|         -|
---
 gc.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 gc.h |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gc.c b/gc.c
index 22972dfc806c..788f06f1586e 100644
--- a/gc.c
+++ b/gc.c
@@ -1153,6 +1153,19 @@ tick(void)
     return val;
 }
 
+#elif defined(__aarch64__) &&  defined(__GNUC__)
+typedef unsigned long tick_t;
+#define PRItick "lu"
+
+static __inline__ tick_t
+tick(void)
+{
+    unsigned long val;
+    __asm__ __volatile__ ("mrs %0, cntvct_el0", : "=r" (val));
+    return val;
+}
+
+
 #elif defined(_WIN32) && defined(_MSC_VER)
 #include <intrin.h>
 typedef unsigned __int64 tick_t;
diff --git a/gc.h b/gc.h
index 6568079c54e5..47a4ca19a0c5 100644
--- a/gc.h
+++ b/gc.h
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 #define SET_MACHINE_STACK_END(p) __asm__ __volatile__ ("movl\t%%esp, %0" : "=r" (*(p)))
 #elif defined(__powerpc64__) && defined(__GNUC__)
 #define SET_MACHINE_STACK_END(p) __asm__ __volatile__ ("mr\t%0, %%r1" : "=r" (*(p)))
+#elif defined(__aarch64__) && defined(__GNUC__)
+#define SET_MACHINE_STACK_END(p) __asm__ __volatile__ ("mov\t%0, sp" : "=r" (*(p)))
 #else
 NOINLINE(void rb_gc_set_stack_end(VALUE **stack_end_p));
 #define SET_MACHINE_STACK_END(p) rb_gc_set_stack_end(p)

From c985b8c6868a380e44e285368af4a4f414ce3309 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 21:15:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] vm_exec.c: improve performance for arm64

|                               |compare-ruby|built-ruby|
|:------------------------------|-----------:|---------:|
|vm_array                       |     26.501M|   27.959M|
|                               |           -|     1.06x|
|vm_attr_ivar                   |     21.606M|   31.429M|
|                               |           -|     1.45x|
|vm_attr_ivar_set               |     21.178M|   26.113M|
|                               |           -|     1.23x|
|vm_backtrace                   |       6.621|     6.668|
|                               |           -|     1.01x|
|vm_bigarray                    |     26.205M|   29.958M|
|                               |           -|     1.14x|
|vm_bighash                     |    504.155k|  479.306k|
|                               |       1.05x|         -|
|vm_block                       |     16.692M|   21.315M|
|                               |           -|     1.28x|
|block_handler_type_iseq        |       5.083|     7.004|
|                               |           -|     1.38x|
---
 vm_exec.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/vm_exec.c b/vm_exec.c
index ce2e053ee745..7aa56f6ad620 100644
--- a/vm_exec.c
+++ b/vm_exec.c
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ static void vm_insns_counter_count_insn(int insn) {}
 #elif defined(__GNUC__) && defined(__powerpc64__)
 #define DECL_SC_REG(type, r, reg) register type reg_##r __asm__("r" reg)
 
+#elif defined(__GNUC__) && defined(__aarch64__)
+#define DECL_SC_REG(type, r, reg) register type reg_##r __asm__("x" reg)
+
 #else
 #define DECL_SC_REG(type, r, reg) register type reg_##r
 #endif
@@ -74,6 +77,11 @@ vm_exec_core(rb_execution_context_t *ec, VALUE initial)
     DECL_SC_REG(rb_control_frame_t *, cfp, "15");
 #define USE_MACHINE_REGS 1
 
+#elif defined(__GNUC__) && defined(__aarch64__)
+    DECL_SC_REG(const VALUE *, pc, "19");
+    DECL_SC_REG(rb_control_frame_t *, cfp, "20");
+#define USE_MACHINE_REGS 1
+
 #else
     register rb_control_frame_t *reg_cfp;
     const VALUE *reg_pc;