[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC/RFBench] AVX FFT

[Vitor Sessak]

Hi,

The following patches add an AVX (an intel x86 extension) FFT 
implementation. Since I do not have a Sandybridge myself, I have no idea 
of its performance. Benchmarks (for ex., using fft-test -s) are thus 
very welcome. Also welcome are suggestions for optimizing it further, in 
particular the 8 point FFT (in the T8_AVX macro), which is not much 
faster than the SSE version.

One thing noteworthy about AVX is that it uses 256 bits registers, so 
now av_malloc needs to align the pointers to 32-byte boundaries. If this 
patch is accepted, I'll have to change a bunch of audio decoders to 
increase their buffers' alignment (note that AVX does not crash if a 
256-bit load is done on a 128-bit aligned pointer, but it will cause a 
cache miss and thus a performance hit).

-Vitor

PS: cross-posted to both lists since I'm interested in feedback from 
both groups.
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