[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc/opusdsp: simplify R-V V postfilter

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

This skips the round-trip to scalar register for the sliding 'x'
coefficients, improving performance by about 5%. The trick here is that
the vector slide-up instruction preserves elements in destination vector
until the slide offset.

The switch from vfslide1up.vf to vslideup.vi also allows the elimination
of data dependencies on consecutive slides. Since the specifications
recommend sticking to power of two offsets, we could slide as follows:

        vslideup.vi v8, v0, 2
        vslideup.vi v4, v0, 1
        vslideup.vi v12, v8, 1
        vslideup.vi v16, v8, 2

However in the device under test, this seems to make performance slightly
worse, so this is left for (in)validation with future better hardware.
---
 libavcodec/riscv/opusdsp_rvv.S | 30 ++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libavcodec/riscv/opusdsp_rvv.S b/libavcodec/riscv/opusdsp_rvv.S
index 79ae86c30e..9a8914c78d 100644
--- a/libavcodec/riscv/opusdsp_rvv.S
+++ b/libavcodec/riscv/opusdsp_rvv.S
@@ -26,40 +26,34 @@ func ff_opus_postfilter_rvv, zve32f
         flw     fa1, 4(a2) // g1
         sub     t0, a0, t1
         flw     fa2, 8(a2) // g2
+        addi    t1, t0, -2 * 4 // data - (period + 2) = initial &x4
+        vsetivli zero, 4, e32, m4, ta, ma
         addi    t0, t0, 2 * 4 // data - (period - 2) = initial &x0
-
-        flw     ft4, -16(t0)
+        vle32.v v16, (t1)
         addi    t3, a1, -2 // maximum parallelism w/o stepping our tail
-        flw     ft3, -12(t0)
-        flw     ft2,  -8(t0)
-        flw     ft1,  -4(t0)
 1:
+        vslidedown.vi v8, v16, 2
         min     t1, a3, t3
+        vslide1down.vx v12, v16, zero
         vsetvli t1, t1, e32, m4, ta, ma
         vle32.v v0, (t0) // x0
         sub     a3, a3, t1
-        vle32.v v28, (a0)
+        vslide1down.vx v4, v8, zero
         sh2add  t0, t1, t0
-        vfslide1up.vf v4, v0, ft1
+        vle32.v v28, (a0)
         addi    t2, t1, -4
-        vfslide1up.vf v8, v4, ft2
-        vfslide1up.vf v12, v8, ft3
-        vfslide1up.vf v16, v12, ft4
+        vslideup.vi v4, v0, 1
+        vslideup.vi v8, v4, 1
+        vslideup.vi v12, v8, 1
+        vslideup.vi v16, v12, 1
         vfadd.vv v20, v4, v12
         vfadd.vv v24, v0, v16
-        vslidedown.vx v12, v0, t2
+        vslidedown.vx v16, v0, t2
         vfmacc.vf v28, fa0, v8
-        vslidedown.vi v4, v12, 2
         vfmacc.vf v28, fa1, v20
-        vslide1down.vx v8, v12, zero
         vfmacc.vf v28, fa2, v24
-        vslide1down.vx v0, v4, zero
         vse32.v v28, (a0)
-        vfmv.f.s ft4, v12
         sh2add  a0, t1, a0
-        vfmv.f.s ft2, v4
-        vfmv.f.s ft3, v8
-        vfmv.f.s ft1, v0
         bnez    a3, 1b
 
         ret
-- 
2.43.0