[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 5/5] aarch64: me_cmp: Don't do uaddlv once per iteration

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 12:25:37AM +0300, Martin Storsjö wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2022, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 10:56:03PM +0300, Martin Storsjö wrote:
> > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2022, Swinney, Jonathan wrote:
> > > 
> > > > If the max height is just 16, then this should be fine. I assumed that h
> > > > could have a much higher value (>1024), but if that is not the case,
> > > > then this is a useful optimization.
> > > 
> > > At least according to the me_cmp.h header, which says:
> > > 
> > > /* Motion estimation:
> > >  * h is limited to { width / 2, width, 2 * width },
> > >  * but never larger than 16 and never smaller than 2.
> > >  * Although currently h < 4 is not used as functions with
> > >  * width < 8 are neither used nor implemented. */
> > 
> > These rules where written with support for encoding of all
> > standard formats in mind at the time that was written.
> > today it may make sense to extend these rules to cover the
> > things which where created since then
> 
> Right, but if that suddenly changes, such a change also must expect that it
> might need updates to all assembly implementations that implement that
> interface currently. Right now, both the defacto case (any callers in the
> codebase) and the explicit documentation says that it can't be called with
> parameters outside of that range.

What i meant was that newly added functions should be more flexible than
these old rules. That is 2 sets of rules
1. What a caller ATM can do and expect to work (thats whats written there)
2. What an implementor of new functions should make sure is supported


> 
> Even if it's raised from the current <= 16, this particular optimization
> should be fine as long as h <= 256 - which should be fine for at least all
> current-gen mainstream codecs since, I think?

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