[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc/aarch64/fdct: add neon-optimized fdct for aarch64

[Ramiro Polla]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 10:42 AM Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2024, Ramiro Polla wrote:
>
> > The code is imported from libjpeg-turbo-3.0.1. The neon registers used
> > have been changed to avoid modifying v8-v15.
> > ---
>
> I don't remember if we have any extra routines we need to do if importing
> foreign code with a differing license. The license here seems fine in any
> case though.

I think the license should be ok (based on the "Patches/Committing"
section in developer.texi).

> This seems to work fine in all my test environments. And thanks for making
> sure it doesn't use v8-v15!
>
> I'm not so familiar with these DSP functions, whether it is norm to add a
> new constant like FF_DCT_NEON, but I guess it seems to match the pattern
> of the existing code.

I don't know either, so I just tried to match the existing code :)

> I presume the main case that tests this is "make fate-dct8x8", which
> builds and executes libavcodec/tests/dct? How much work would it be to
> integrate testing of these routines into checkasm? That way we could rest
> assured that the assembly passes all such ABI checks that we do there,
> including what registers must not be clobbered.

I added checkasm for fdct. It's especially useful to make sure there
is no overflow in the DC coefficient.

> The assembly uses a different indentation width than the rest of our
> assembly. I recently spent some effort on cleaning that up so that our
> code is mostly consistent, so I'd prefer not to add new code that deviates
> from it. It primarily looks like you'd need to add 4 spaces at the start
> of each line.
>
> I've used a script for mostly automatically reindenting our arm assembly,
> you can grab it at https://martin.st/temp/ffmpeg-asm-indent.pl, run it as
> "cat file.S | ./ffmpeg-asm-indent.pl > tmp; mv tmp file.S". It's not 100%
> accurate, but mostly gets you there, but it's good to manually check it
> afterwards as well.

I fixed the indentation and tweaked a few more cosmetics in the comments.

Thank you for the review and the help on IRC! I'll send v2 shortly.

Ramiro