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[Bug math/15936] New: Computing sin and cos is very slow when using AVX-powered processors
- From: "faltet at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:53:01 +0000
- Subject: [Bug math/15936] New: Computing sin and cos is very slow when using AVX-powered processors
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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15936
Bug ID: 15936
Summary: Computing sin and cos is very slow when using
AVX-powered processors
Product: glibc
Version: 2.17
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: math
Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
Reporter: faltet at gmail dot com
Created attachment 7191
--> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=7191&action=edit
C program showing an slow behavior of sin/cos
When computing expressions containing sin() and cos() (and possibly more), I am
experiencing very slow performance.
In the attachment you can see a program that takes around 2.3 sec on my
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3380M CPU @ 2.90GHz using openSUSE 12.3 (latest) and glibc
2.17, while in a virtual machine inside this machine (using VirtualBox here)
with no support for AVX the time for executing the same code goes down to 0.436
sec (5x faster). The virtual machine uses Ubuntu Quantal 64 bit with glibc
(libc6) 2.15.
The fact that supports my suspicion that AVX support is flaky in libm is that
'perf top' is reporting the next usage in my machine:
```
49.72% libm-2.17.so [.] feraiseexcept
21.34% libm-2.17.so [.] __cos_avx
20.75% libm-2.17.so [.] __sin_avx
2.26% bug-avx [.] main
```
so apparently the AVX versions of cos and sin are incorrectly raising floating
point exceptions (feraiseexcept) that should not happen. In my virtual machine
(Ubuntu Quantal 64, glibc 2.15) 'perf top' reports this:
```
61.52% libm-2.15.so [.] sincos
8.50% perf_3.5.0-21 [.] 0x00000000000413f0
6.45% libc-2.15.so [.] 0x000000000008044b
5.96% bug-avx [.] main
```
We tried a another native OS, Fedora 19, which comes with glibc 2.17 and with a
processor that supports AVX, and we are getting an important slowdown too.
Thanks
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