[PATCH v1 4/4] common/ml: add Arm NEON type conversion routines

[Srikanth Yalavarthi]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com>
> Sent: 12 December 2022 12:46
> To: Srikanth Yalavarthi <syalavarthi at marvell.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Shivah Shankar Shankar Narayan Rao
> <sshankarnara at marvell.com>; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
> <jerinj at marvell.com>; Anup Prabhu <aprabhu at marvell.com>; nd
> <nd at arm.com>; Srikanth Yalavarthi <syalavarthi at marvell.com>
> Subject: [EXT] RE: [PATCH v1 4/4] common/ml: add Arm NEON type
> conversion routines
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Srikanth Yalavarthi <syalavarthi at marvell.com>
> > Sent: Friday, December 9, 2022 3:36 AM
> > To: Srikanth Yalavarthi <syalavarthi at marvell.com>; Ruifeng Wang
> > <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com>
> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org; sshankarnara at marvell.com; jerinj at marvell.com;
> > aprabhu at marvell.com
> > Subject: [PATCH v1 4/4] common/ml: add Arm NEON type conversion
> > routines
> >
> > Added ARM NEON intrinsic based implementations to support conversion
> of data types.
> > Support is enabled to handle int8, uint8, int16, uint16, float16,
> > float32 and bfloat16 types.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Srikanth Yalavarthi <syalavarthi at marvell.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/common/ml/meson.build     |   5 +
> >  drivers/common/ml/ml_utils.c      |  48 ++
> >  drivers/common/ml/ml_utils_neon.c | 950
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/common/ml/ml_utils_neon.h
> |  23
> > +
> >  4 files changed, 1026 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/common/ml/ml_utils_neon.c  create mode
> > 100644 drivers/common/ml/ml_utils_neon.h
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/common/ml/meson.build
> > b/drivers/common/ml/meson.build index
> > 84ae84ee4e..f7ce19b4b4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/common/ml/meson.build
> > +++ b/drivers/common/ml/meson.build
> > @@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ sources = files(
> >          'ml_utils_generic.c',
> >  )
> >
> > +if arch_subdir == 'arm'
> > +    headers += files('ml_utils_neon.h')
> > +    sources += files('ml_utils_neon.c') endif
> > +
> >  deps += ['mldev']
> >
> >  pmd_supports_disable_iova_as_pa = true diff --git
> > a/drivers/common/ml/ml_utils.c b/drivers/common/ml/ml_utils.c index
> > e2edef0904..3edcf09fde 100644
> > --- a/drivers/common/ml/ml_utils.c
> > +++ b/drivers/common/ml/ml_utils.c
> > @@ -120,71 +120,119 @@ ml_io_format_to_str(enum rte_ml_io_format
> > format, char *str, int
> > len)  int  ml_float32_to_int8(float scale, uint64_t nb_elements, void
> > *input, void *output) {
> > +#if defined(__ARM_NEON__)
> > +	return ml_float32_to_int8_neon(scale, nb_elements, input, output);
> > +#else
> >  	return ml_float32_to_int8_generic(scale, nb_elements, input,
> > output);
> > +#endif
> >  }
> >
> Maybe __rte_weak can be used to remove the ifdef clutter.
> 
> Something like:
> ml_utils.c
> __rte_weak int ml_float32_to_int8(float scale, uint64_t nb_elements, void
> *input, void *output) {
> 	return ml_float32_to_int8_generic(scale, nb_elements, input,
> output); } ml_utis_neon.c int ml_float32_to_int8(float scale, uint64_t
> nb_elements, void *input, void *output) {
> 	return ml_float32_to_int8_neon(scale, nb_elements, input, output);
> }
> 
Updated the common/ml series implementation. Scalar / generic routines would be weak symbols.

> <snip>
> > diff --git a/drivers/common/ml/ml_utils_neon.c
> > b/drivers/common/ml/ml_utils_neon.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000..b660de07ec
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/common/ml/ml_utils_neon.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,950 @@
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> > + * Copyright (c) 2022 Marvell.
> > + */
> > +
> > +#include <errno.h>
> > +#include <math.h>
> > +#include <stdint.h>
> > +
> > +#include <rte_common.h>
> > +#include <rte_vect.h>
> > +
> > +#include "ml_utils.h"
> > +#include "ml_utils_neon.h"
> > +
> > +#include <arm_neon.h>
> This line can be removed. It is included rte_vect.h.
Done
> 
> Thanks.
> <snip>