Bug #91485 ut_crc32_hw() checks ut_crc32_cpu_enabled on each call
Submitted: 29 Jun 2018 6:32 Modified: 20 Jul 2018 17:10
Reporter: Alexey Kopytov Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: InnoDB storage engine Severity:S5 (Performance)
Version:5.7.22, 8.0.11 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[29 Jun 2018 6:32] Alexey Kopytov
Description:
ut_crc32_hw() and a few other functions have this code at the very
beginning:

MY_ATTRIBUTE((target("sse4.2")))
static uint32_t ut_crc32_hw(const byte *buf, ulint len) {
  uint64_t crc = 0xFFFFFFFFU;

  ut_a(ut_crc32_cpu_enabled);
  ...
}

It doesn't make much sense to check if HW support is available every
time we want to compute a HW-optimized checksum.

It probably has a negligible performance impact in real-life scenarios,
but small things like that contribute to the notorious code bloat
affecting single-threaded performance. And to global warming!

This is a request to convert it to a debug assertion.

How to repeat:
Look for occurrences of ut_crc32_cpu_enabled in crc32.cc.

Suggested fix:
Make it a debug assertion.
[29 Jun 2018 6:58] Alexey Kopytov
Adding 5.7.
[29 Jun 2018 8:40] MySQL Verification Team
Hello Alexey,

Thank you for your report and feature request to convert it to a debug assertion!

Regards,
Umesh
[20 Jul 2018 17:10] Daniel Price
Posted by developer:
 
Fixed as of the upcoming 8.0.13 release, and here's the changelog entry:

To avoid checking hardware support each time a hardware-optimized
checksum is computed, asserts were converted to debug-only asserts.