added three-plus-one pass radix which performs very well, but there is 0.8 ILP only because of lot of cache misses. worse perf on random than magyarsort, but better than ska_copy and best worst cases - might hook into thier2?

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Richard Thier 2025-09-29 02:24:50 +02:00
parent f4e4db43f9
commit a17b284c8a
3 changed files with 155 additions and 5 deletions

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perf_cache.sh Executable file
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#!/bin/sh
perf stat -e cache-references,cache-misses,cycles,instructions,branches,faults,migrations ./ypsu.out

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threepass.h Normal file
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#ifndef THREE_PASS_H
#define THREE_PASS_H
/* How the 32 bits gets separated? */
#define TPB1 11 // top
#define TPB2 11 // mid
#define TPB3 10 // bottom
static inline constexpr uint32_t min3u32(uint32_t a, uint32_t b, uint32_t c) {
return (a <= b) ?
((a <= c) ? a : c) :
((b <= c) ? b : c);
}
/** Simple three-pass (ok: 3 + 1) bottom-up radix sort for uint32_t */
static inline void threepass(uint32_t *a, int n) noexcept {
constexpr int shr1 = TPB3 + TPB2;
constexpr int shr2 = TPB3;
constexpr int shr3 = 0;
constexpr int mask1 = (1 << TPB1) - 1;
constexpr int mask2 = (1 << TPB2) - 1;
constexpr int mask3 = (1 << TPB3) - 1;
/* helper buffers. */
int sz = n * sizeof(a[0]);
static thread_local uint32_t bucket1[1 << TPB1];
memset(bucket1, 0, (1 << TPB1) * sizeof(uint32_t));
static thread_local uint32_t bucket2[1 << TPB2];
memset(bucket2, 0, (1 << TPB2) * sizeof(uint32_t));
static thread_local uint32_t bucket3[1 << TPB3];
memset(bucket3, 0, (1 << TPB3) * sizeof(uint32_t));
uint32_t *buf = (uint32_t *)malloc(sz);
assert(buf != NULL);
memset(buf, 0, n * sizeof(uint32_t)); // XXX: TODO: REMOVE
/* Count occurences (can count together with good ILP) */
#pragma GCC unroll 64
for(uint32_t i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
++bucket1[(a[i] >> shr1) & mask1];
++bucket2[(a[i] >> shr2) & mask2];
++bucket3[(a[i] >> shr3) & mask3];
}
/* Count prefix sums - try as much ILP as possible because bigger arrays than usual! */
uint32_t prev1 = 0;
uint32_t prev2 = 0;
uint32_t prev3 = 0;
uint32_t common = min3u32(
(1 << TPB1),
(1 << TPB2),
(1 << TPB3)
);
int i = 0;
#pragma GCC unroll 8
for (; i < common; ++i) {
bucket1[i] += prev1;
prev1 = bucket1[i];
bucket2[i] += prev2;
prev2 = bucket2[i];
bucket3[i] += prev3;
prev3 = bucket3[i];
}
/* Do remaining 1 */
for (int j = i; j < (1 << TPB1); ++j) {
bucket1[j] += prev1;
prev1 = bucket1[j];
}
/* Do remaining 2 */
for (int j = i; j< (1 << TPB2); ++j) {
bucket2[j] += prev2;
prev2 = bucket2[j];
}
/* Do remaining 3 */
for (int j = i; j < (1 << TPB3); ++j) {
bucket3[j] += prev3;
prev3 = bucket3[j];
}
// Bottom digit
// right-to-left to ensure already sorted digits order we keep for iterations
#pragma GCC unroll 64
for(uint32_t i = n; i > 0; --i) {
// Prefetch caches
// Get num and its new offset / location
auto num = a[i - 1];
auto bkeyni = (num >> shr3) & mask3;
auto offset = --bucket3[bkeyni];
// Add to the proper target location
buf[offset] = num;
}
// Mid digit
// right-to-left to ensure already sorted digits order we keep for iterations
#pragma GCC unroll 64
for(uint32_t i = n; i > 0; --i) {
// Prefetch caches
// Get num and its new offset / location
auto num = buf[i - 1];
auto bkeyni = (num >> shr2) & mask2;
auto offset = --bucket2[bkeyni];
// Add to the proper target location
a[offset] = num;
}
// Top digit
// right-to-left to ensure already sorted digits order we keep for iterations
#pragma GCC unroll 64
for(uint32_t i = n; i > 0; --i) {
// Prefetch caches
// Get num and its new offset / location
auto num = a[i - 1];
auto bkeyni = (num >> shr1) & mask1;
auto offset = --bucket1[bkeyni];
// Add to the proper target location
buf[offset] = num;
}
// Memcpy back!
memcpy(a, buf, n * sizeof(uint32_t));
free(buf);
}
#endif /* THREE_PASS_H */

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#include "qsort/zssort.h"
#include "qsort/schwab_sort.h"
#include "qsort/chatgpt_qs.h"
#include "threepass.h"
// #define MAGYAR_SORT_DEFAULT_REUSE
#include "magyarsort.h"
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thiersort2(a, &(tmp[0]), n, &state);
}
/** 3+1 pass bottom-up radix */
static inline void do_threepass(uint32_t *a, int n) noexcept {
threepass(a, n);
}
// mormord — Today at 2:27 AM
// 1 2 2 2 3
//
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v = geninput(inputtype, n);
//measure(inputtype, "sp", [&] { spsort(&v[0], v.size()); });
//measure(inputtype, "magyar", [&] { MagyarSort::sort<uint32_t>(&v[0], v.size()); });
measure(inputtype, "thier2", [&] { do_thier2(&v[0], v.size()); });
//measure(inputtype, "thier2", [&] { do_thier2(&v[0], v.size()); });
measure(inputtype, "threep", [&] { do_threepass(&v[0], v.size()); });
for (auto r : results) printf("%9.3fs", r.second);
puts("");
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puts("");
}
int main(void) {
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
//int n = 100000000;
//int n = 10000000;
int n = 5000000;
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//int n = 180;
//int n = 20;
if(argc > 1) {
const char* arg = argv[1];
n = atoi(arg);
}
printf("Sorting %d elements:\n\n", n);
// Uncomment this for profiling and alg!
//measure_single(n);
//return 0;
measure_single(n);
return 0;
for (auto inputtype : inputtypes) {
printf("%10s", inputtype.c_str());
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w.swap(buf);
}
});
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "magyar", [&] { MagyarSort::sort<uint32_t>(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
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w = v;
measure(inputtype, "zsr3_sp", [&] { do_zsr3_sp(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
*/
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "zsr3_sp2", [&] { do_zsr3_sp2(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
*/
/*
// TODO: This is buggy! See valgrind!
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "neoqs", [&] { do_neoqs(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
*/
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "schwab", [&] { do_schwab(&w[0], w.size()); });
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measure(inputtype, "thier2", [&] { do_thier2(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "threep", [&] { do_threepass(&w[0], w.size()); });
assert(w == expected);
/*
w = v;
measure(inputtype, "magbuck", [&] { magyar_bucket_sort(&w[0], w.size()); });