[PATCH] Use 128-bit math to accelerate numeric division, when 8 < divisor digits <= 16 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers
Hi,
On platforms where we support 128bit integers, we could accelerate division
when the number of digits in the divisor is larger than 8 and less than or
equal to 16 digits, i.e. when the divisor that fits in a 64-bit integer but would
not fit in a 32-bit integer.
This patch adds div_var_int64(), which is similar to the existing div_var_int(),
but accepts a 64-bit divisor instead of a 32-bit divisor.
The new function is used within div_var() and div_var_fast().
To measure the effect, we need a volatile wrapper function for numeric_div(),
to avoid it being cached since it's immutable:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION numeric_div_volatile(numeric,numeric)
RETURNS numeric LANGUAGE internal AS 'numeric_div';
We can then use generate_series() to measure the execution time for lots of
executions. This does not account for the overhead of generate_series() and
count(), but that's okay since the overhead is the same in both measurements,
so the relative difference is still correct.
--
-- Division when the divisor is 8 digits should be unchanged:
--
EXPLAIN ANALYZE
SELECT count(numeric_div_volatile(
repeat('1',131071)::numeric,
repeat('3',8)::numeric
)) FROM generate_series(1,1e4);
-- Execution Time: 1633.722 ms (HEAD)
-- Execution Time: 1680.228 ms (div_var_int64.patch)
--
-- Division when the divisor is 9 digits should be faster:
--
EXPLAIN ANALYZE
SELECT count(numeric_div_volatile(
repeat('1',131071)::numeric,
repeat('3',9)::numeric
)) FROM generate_series(1,1e4);
-- Execution Time: 5444.755 ms (HEAD)
-- Execution Time: 1604.967 ms (div_var_int64.patch)
--
-- Division when the divisor is 16 digits should also be faster:
--
EXPLAIN ANALYZE
SELECT count(numeric_div_volatile(
repeat('1',131071)::numeric,
repeat('3',16)::numeric
)) FROM generate_series(1,1e4);
-- Execution Time: 6072.683 ms (HEAD)
-- Execution Time: 3215.686 ms (div_var_int64.patch)
--
-- Division when the divisor is 17 digits should be unchanged:
--
EXPLAIN ANALYZE
SELECT count(numeric_div_volatile(
repeat('1',131071)::numeric,
repeat('3',17)::numeric
)) FROM generate_series(1,1e4);
-- Execution Time: 6948.150 ms (HEAD)
-- Execution Time: 7010.544 ms (div_var_int64.patch)
--
-- Same tests as above, but with a single digit dividend,
-- and 1e7 executions instead of just 1e4.
--
--
-- Division when the divisor is 8 digits should be unchanged:
--
EXPLAIN ANALYZE
SELECT count(numeric_div_volatile(
1,
repeat('3',8)::numeric
)) FROM generate_series(1,1e7);
-- Execution Time: 1827.567 ms (HEAD)
-- Execution Time: 1828.029 ms (div_var_int64.patch)
--
-- Division when the divisor is 9 digits should be faster:
--
EXPLAIN ANALYZE
SELECT count(numeric_div_volatile(
1,
repeat('3',9)::numeric
)) FROM generate_series(1,1e7);
-- Execution Time: 2314.851 ms (HEAD)
-- Execution Time: 1886.170 ms (div_var_int64.patch)
--
-- Division when the divisor is 16 digits should also be faster:
--
EXPLAIN ANALYZE
SELECT count(numeric_div_volatile(
1,
repeat('3',16)::numeric
)) FROM generate_series(1,1e7);
-- Execution Time: 2244.009 ms (HEAD)
-- Execution Time: 1968.148 ms (div_var_int64.patch)
--
-- Division when the divisor is 17 digits should be unchanged:
--
EXPLAIN ANALYZE
SELECT count(numeric_div_volatile(
1,
repeat('3',17)::numeric
)) FROM generate_series(1,1e7);
-- Execution Time: 2334.896 ms (HEAD)
-- Execution Time: 2338.141 ms (div_var_int64.patch)
The graph below shows the effect on execution time for numeric_div(),
and also looks at numeric_mod() since it's a heavy user of numeric_div().
The graph was produced by generating 100 random numeric integer values
for each combination of number of dividend/divisor digits between 1 to 20.
In total, that's 20*20*100*2=80000 test values.
As expected, the ceiling for the fast short division is lifted from 8 to 16 divisor digits,
and speedups for modulus is noticed in the same region.
The graph was produced using results from pg-timeit [1] and R for the plotting.
/Joel
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