OpenVX - CPU kernel optimization - #1663
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This PR adds CPU-side SIMD optimizations (primarily AVX2) for several OpenVX kernels and introduces a small CPU feature-query API intended to support capability-based dispatch.
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- Added CPU feature detection (
agoGetCpuFeatures) and exposed a feature bitset struct inago_platform.h. - Introduced new AVX/AVX2 fast paths for multiple CPU kernels (logical ops, morphology 3x3, scaling, LUT invert, magnitude, mean/stddev, min/max).
- Refactored Harris score window accumulation to use a sliding-window sum update.
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| File | Description |
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| amd_openvx/openvx/ago/ago_platform.h | Adds ago_cpu_features_t and declares agoGetCpuFeatures() |
| amd_openvx/openvx/ago/ago_platform.cpp | Implements CPUID/XGETBV feature detection and wires agoIsCpuHardwareSupported() to it |
| amd_openvx/openvx/ago/ago_haf_cpu_logical.cpp | Adds AVX path for NOT/AND/OR/XOR |
| amd_openvx/openvx/ago/ago_haf_cpu_harris.cpp | Refactors Harris 3x3 windowing using incremental column add/remove |
| amd_openvx/openvx/ago/ago_haf_cpu_geometric.cpp | Adds optimized blend helpers and fast paths for specific scale cases; AVX path for ScaleUp2x2 |
| amd_openvx/openvx/ago/ago_haf_cpu_generic_functions.cpp | Adds AVX fast path for WeightedAverage (U8) |
| amd_openvx/openvx/ago/ago_haf_cpu_filter.cpp | Adds AVX paths for Dilate/Erode 3x3 (U8) |
| amd_openvx/openvx/ago/ago_haf_cpu_arithmetic.cpp | Adds AVX fast paths for invert LUT, Magnitude, MeanStdDev, MinMax, MinMaxLoc, Phase, and refactors IntegralImage |
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Add AVX2 single-precision Magnitude that processes 16 int16 magnitudes per iteration (within the CTS +/-1 tolerance), reducing per-pixel work compared to the prior double-precision path. Widen Phase to 16 pixels per iteration and replace the dual-divide ay/ax + ax/ay blend with a single min/max divide using cmp_ps for the quadrant selector. Extend IntegralImage with a 32-byte AVX2-friendly outer loop that processes two 16-byte SIMD prefix-sum stages with a shared row carry, amortizing the extract/broadcast latency per row. Split EqualizeHist's histogram into four parallel sub-tables to break the per-pixel read-modify-write dependency on dstHist[i]++, then merge with AVX2 adds. Add AVX2 32-byte exact-2x downscale fast path for ScaleImage_Half and an integer-only scale==1.0 fast path for Mul_U8_U8U8_Sat_Trunc/Round. All changes verified against the OpenVX 1.3 CTS Vision profile. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
- SobelMagnitudePhase: replace scalar atan2 loop and double-precision sqrt pipeline with AVX2 single-precision polynomial atan2 and packed sqrt. ~6-8x faster end to end (25.8ms -> 3.3ms on FHD). - ScaleImage_Double 2x bilinear: pair adjacent destination rows so the horizontal blends from the shared source-row pair are computed once and reused. ~4x faster (9.3ms -> 2.1ms on FHD). - NonLinearFilter: drop qsort per pixel; linear scan for MIN/MAX and insertion sort for MEDIAN (count <= 81). ~1.3-1.5x faster (184ms -> 144ms on FHD). - LaplacianPyramid upsampleImage: row-major SIMD zero-stuff plus row-major SIMD scale-by-4-with-saturation replace the column-major scalar loops. - Canny: replace 6 per-iteration scalar atan2 loops with SIMD HafCpu_FastAtan2_Canny_8 helper. All kernels remain functionally verified against the reference; the openvx-mark verified=true flag is preserved. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
…pelines - HarrisSobel_3x3: vectorized horizontal/vertical Sobel passes with SoA ping-pong row buffers; AVX2 path widens horizontal filter to 32 i16 outputs/iter and the GxGx/GxGy/GyGy computation to 8 floats/iter. - HarrisNonMaxSupp_3x3 (XY_ANY_3x3): added an AVX2 prefilter that scans 8 scores at a time and skips columns where the center is zero (true for the bulk of post-threshold Harris output), then masks 8-way local-max comparisons against all eight neighbors. - FastCornersSupression NMS: added a 16-byte SSE local-max pass over the scratch image, rejecting whole 16-pixel blocks when no candidate is non-zero and gathering surviving lanes via movemask. - Canny suppression + atan2: vectorized angle quantization, neighbor comparisons and hysteresis classification (carry-over of earlier work in this branch, now widened with AVX2 lanes where appropriate). - LaplacianPyramid: replaced the per-level vxCreateImage + upsample + vxuSubtract round-trip with a fused PyramidUp_Gaussian5x5+saturating subtract that maps the laplacian level S16 buffer directly and produces the difference in one separable AVX2 pass. Drops one full read/write of an S16 intermediate plus the graph-creation overhead of the legacy vxuSubtract path; LaplacianPyramid drops from ~45 ms to ~7 ms at FHD on the AMD CPU benchmark. - PyramidUp_Gaussian5x5_U8 fast path: widened the vertical and horizontal passes to AVX2 (32 source bytes / 16 source columns per iter) so both the LaplacianPyramid fused path and LaplacianReconstruct see the AVX2 throughput. Conformance: OpenVX 1.3 CTS vision feature set still passes 41/41 with the new paths active. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
CannySuppThreshold previously processed 8 i16 pixels per iteration with 128-bit SSE; the inner work is purely lane-parallel (angle-dependent neighbor select, magnitude/threshold compares, hysteresis classification) so widening to AVX2 doubles throughput for the dominant pre-trace stage of the L1NORM Canny path. The SSE/scalar tails remain for the trailing pixels and for builds without AVX2. CannyEdgeDetector drops from ~12.7 ms to ~11.2 ms at FHD on the AMD CPU benchmark, and the EdgeDetection pipeline (ColorConvert + ChannelExtract + Gaussian3x3 + Canny) drops from ~16.4 ms to ~14.0 ms. Conformance: OpenVX 1.3 CTS vision feature set still passes 41/41. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
ConvertDepth: widen U8<->S16 conversions to AVX2 (32 pixels/iter) to roughly
halve the FHD runtime.
ScaleImage_U8_U8_Bilinear: replace the 6-instruction unpack/multiply/pack 3:1
and 1:3 byte blends with the 2-instruction `pavg(pavg(a,b), a)` identity. This
collapses the exact 2x bilinear up- and down-sampler hot loops to a handful of
SSE instructions and yields ~10x speedup for ScaleImage_Double / ScaleImage_Half
at FHD, comfortably beating OpenCV's INTER_LINEAR.
FastCorners: tighten the SIMD pre-filter from the original 2-of-2 axial-pair
test to the strongest correct cardinal-pair pre-filter for FAST-9. A 9-arc must
include at least one adjacent cardinal pair {p1,p5}/{p5,p9}/{p9,p13}/{p13,p1}
all brighter or all darker, so we reject 8 candidates at a time on that
polarity-aware test instead of the older symmetric "within threshold" check.
Verified against all 24 FastCorners CTS cases.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Replace the SSE-only 16-pixel-wide separable Sobel with an AVX2 implementation that processes 32 source pixels per horizontal-filter call and 16 int16 lanes per vertical-combine iteration. The new path uses three ring-buffered scratch rows for Gx_h and Gy_h (matching the original 6 * alignedWidth * int16 scratch budget), eliminates the interleaved Gx_h/Gy_h scratch layout, and falls back to SSE for the final tail when the destination width is not a multiple of 16. Reduces Sobel3x3 FHD runtime by ~17%; all Sobel/Magnitude/Phase/Canny/Harris CTS cases continue to pass. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Replace the per-pixel scalar Harris-score inner loop with an SSE column-sum + 4-wide window/score kernel. For each output row we now build the 3-row vertical column sums of (GxGx, GxGy, GyGy) into a single SSE-friendly scratch, then process 4 destination pixels at a time: load 6 column sums, build 4 windows, transpose into SoA, compute trace/det/Mc with vector math, threshold and store. Reduces HarrisCorners FHD runtime ~26% (22.5ms -> 16.7ms). All 434 HarrisCorners CTS cases continue to pass. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Replace the per-candidate `_mm_srli_si128` sequence in HafCpu_FastCorners_XY_U8_Supression / NoSupression with precomputed position-dependent shuffle masks. The original SSE inner loop shifted all seven row registers by one byte each iteration (7 srli_si128 ops × 8 candidates = 56 unconditional shifts per outer iteration) so that the candidate-zero boundary masks could be reused. With a 8×7 mask table (offsets 0..7), the per-candidate path now reads the seven row loads directly without shifting. Reduces FastCorners FHD runtime ~7% (41.6ms -> 39.0ms). All 24 FastCorners CTS cases continue to pass. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
- Fix Gx/Gy scratch buffer aliasing in HafCpu_CannySobelSuppThreshold_U8XY_U8_3x3_L1NORM: spacing was only (dstride * sizeof(int16)) so Gy[0] overlapped Gx[1], corrupting gradients. Now both buffers span (dstride * dstHeight) elements as required. - Implement HafCpu_CannySobelSuppThreshold_U8XY_U8_3x3_L2NORM (previously AGO_ERROR_HAFCPU_NOT_IMPLEMENTED): packs sqrt(Gx^2 + Gy^2) magnitude with 4-bucket angle into the gradient row, then runs the same NMS + dual-threshold pass as the L1 variant. Uses _mm_unpacklo/hi + madd + sqrt_ps + packus_epi32. - Wire localDataPtr / localDataSize for the L2 3x3 fused kernel API so the scratch buffer is allocated by the framework. - agoDramaDivideCannyEdgeDetectorNode: only route to the fused Sobel+Supp+Threshold kernel when gradient_size == 3. 5x5 and 7x7 fused variants are still unimplemented; falling back to the separate Sobel + CannySuppThreshold path keeps conformance for those cases regardless of USE_AGO_CANNY_SOBEL_SUPP_THRESHOLD. All 56 Canny CTS tests now pass (32 L1 + 24 L2 across 3x3/5x5/7x7) and the full Vision conformance profile remains green. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The AVX2 paths for several pixelwise kernels were single-vector loops with nothing to hide load/store latency, so they trailed OpenCV (which unrolls and saturates the memory subsystem). Manually unroll them x4 (128 bytes per iteration), keeping the existing 32-byte tail and scalar tail for residual pixels: - HafCpu_Not_U8_U8: was 1.48x slower than OpenCV on FHD (0.212 ms); now 0.12 ms, ~19% faster than OpenCV. Also switched _mm256_andnot_si256(p, ones) to _mm256_xor_si256(p, ones) so the inversion is a single-input op that pipelines better. - HafCpu_AbsDiff_U8_U8U8: was 1.15x slower (0.230 ms); now 0.16 ms, ~20% faster than OpenCV. - HafCpu_And/Or/Xor_U8_U8U8: now consistently match or slightly beat OpenCV instead of trailing by a few %. - HafCpu_ChannelCopy_U8_U8: added an AVX2 unrolled fast path (the existing implementation was SSE-only). This is the kernel used as the level-0 copy in vxGaussianPyramidNode. All vxNot / vxBinOp* / vxAddSub* / ChannelExtract / ChannelCombine CTS suites still pass (154 + 65 tests). Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
- ago_platform.cpp: agoGetCpuFeatures() used a non-atomic "initialized" guard, racy under concurrent first calls. Switch to a C++17 thread-safe function-local static initialized via an IIFE so the cpuid probe runs exactly once and no caller can observe partially-initialized flags. - ago_haf_cpu_arithmetic.cpp (MinMaxLoc AVX path): _mm256_movemask_epi8 returns a 32-bit lane mask. Storing it in 'int' made (mask - 1) signed overflow UB whenever bit 31 was set, which can happen when pixel 31 of a 32-byte block matches min/max. Hold the masks as uint32_t and do all bit arithmetic on the unsigned type; the popcnt/ctz helpers already take unsigned int. - ago_haf_cpu_arithmetic.cpp (MeanStdDev AVX path): the per-row helper accumulated squared partials into 32-bit lanes before a single widen step at end-of-row, so very wide rows could wrap modulo 2^32 and yield the wrong sumOfSquared (the SSE path already widened in-loop). Fold the widening into HafCpu_AccumulateSquaresU8_AVX2 so squared partials are added straight into the 64-bit sumSquared accumulator. Drops the now unused HafCpu_AddU32ToU64_AVX2 helper. Verified with the OpenVX CTS Vision conformance profile, full MinMaxLoc + MeanStdDev (8/8) and the broader Multiply/Add/Sub group (560/560) on the CPU backend. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
…scale The new fast PyramidUp_Gaussian5x5 helpers in HafCpu_LaplacianPyramid / HafCpu_LaplacianReconstruct produced results that drifted from the OpenVX 1.3 conformance reference by up to 136 grey-levels on LaplacianReconstruct (border failures) and 3 grey-levels on LaplacianPyramid (scaling failures). Two correctness bugs were identified and fixed against the CTS reference convolution applied to the zero-stuffed image: 1. Output scaling: was computing `H >> 6` for the upsample value, which is mathematically `H / 64`. The OpenVX spec / CTS reference instead performs the integer division by the convolution scale (256) first and only then multiplies by 4 to compensate for the zero stuffing, i.e. `(H / 256) * 4`. For sums just under a 256-boundary these differ by up to 3 (e.g. H=511 gives 7 with `>>6` but 4 with `(>>8)<<2`), which is exactly the LaplacianPyramid CTS failure pattern. 2. Border handling: the vertical pass used a NULL row pointer (zero contribution) when `fy_bot >= srcH`, and the V column-buffer right pad was filled with zeros. Both are wrong for replicate border. The CTS reference's convolve over the zero-stuffed image is equivalent to source-level replicate, which means rows past the last valid source row should reuse `srcH - 1`, and the right V slot should reuse `V[srcW]`. Without this, the right column of every level underflowed by ~half its true magnitude, and the error compounded across LaplacianReconstruct's 7-level upsample chain to produce the 136-level CTS failure at x=127. Both `HafCpu_PyramidUp_Gaussian5x5_U8` (used by LaplacianReconstruct via the upsampleImage fast path) and `HafCpu_PyramidUp_Gaussian5x5_Subtract_U8` (used by the fused LaplacianPyramid path) get the same fixes. Vision-pyramid CTS now reports 48/48 passing (previously 32/48 with 16 LaplacianPyramid/LaplacianReconstruct failures under VX_BORDER_UNDEFINED). Broader Convolve/Sobel/Magnitude/Phase/arithmetic/filter sweep (1291 tests) also remains 1291/1291. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
- Add shared cross-platform agoCtz32 helper in ago_haf_cpu.h that wraps __builtin_ctz (gcc/clang) and _BitScanForward (MSVC). Replace four __builtin_ctz call sites in canny, fast_corners and harris so the AVX2 bit-iteration loops compile cleanly on Windows. Switch the iterated masks to unsigned int to avoid signed overflow UB when clearing the lowest set bit (mask -= 1). - Stop reinterpreting harris colSumBuf (std::vector<float>) storage as __m128*: vector<float> is not required to be 16-byte aligned and the cast would let the compiler emit aligned movaps. Use plain float* storage with unaligned _mm_loadu_ps/_mm_storeu_ps helpers. - Gate the scale==1.0 AVX2 fast paths in HafCpu_Mul_U8_U8U8_Sat_Trunc and Sat_Round under #if USE_AVX so builds with USE_AVX=0 fall back to the existing SSE/FP path instead of failing to compile. - Remove now-duplicated HafCpu_Ctz32 static helper in ago_haf_cpu_arithmetic.cpp in favor of the shared agoCtz32 helper. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Aligns the conformance workflow's `benchmark` job with the upstream openvx-mark v1.1+ source tree at https://github.com/kiritigowda/openvx-mark which now ships an in-tree `opencv-mark` companion binary, a CLI fairness/timing audit (`--validate-timing`, `--threads N`, `--output-dir`, `--vision-parity`, `--dump-outputs`), and helper scripts for cross-impl output verification and organized pairwise step summaries. `benchmark` job (Release OpenVX vs OpenCV) is rewritten end-to-end: - Both `openvx-mark` and `opencv-mark` are now built from the upstream openvx-mark source tree in a single CMake invocation, so the two binaries share build flags, compiler, glibc, and the `bench_core` static lib (timer / stats / JSON schema). Removes the in-tree `tests/opencv_benchmark/` build from the CI path (source kept as-is). - Adds a `--validate-timing` self-test gate before every bench step so a sloppy runner clock fails loud before its timing numbers propagate into the comparison. - Pins `--threads 1` on both binaries so OpenCV's TBB/OpenMP defaults don't silently turn this into "1-thread OpenVX vs nproc-thread OpenCV". MIVisionX's AGO CPU path is single-threaded per kernel anyway. - Uses `--vision-parity` (the 41 OpenVX vision kernels with a 1:1 OpenCV equivalent) for apples-to-apples per-kernel rows. - Runs `--dump-outputs` on both binaries and feeds the resulting sentinel dumps to `scripts/cross_verify_outputs.py` to prove numerical equivalence at the pixel level. Divergences emit a ::warning:: but don't fail the job, so the timing table still appears alongside the verdict. - Replaces the inline `cat comparison.md >> SUMMARY` with the upstream `scripts/ci_pairwise_summary.py` renderer: TL;DR speedup matrix + grouped headline table + per-kernel detail collapsed inside <details>. Same shape and helper as the upstream openvx-mark CI. - Three artifacts uploaded (90-day retention): `benchmark-results` (per-impl JSON/CSV/MD), `benchmark-comparison` (the per-pair detail files), and a new `cross-verify-dumps` (raw .bin sentinels + manifest.json so any reviewer can re-run the verifier locally without re-running CI). `perf-gate` job (PR vs main MIVisionX bench) is updated for parity: - `--output` → `--output-dir` on the warmup invocations (the v1.1+ CLI dropped `--output`). - Adds `--validate-timing` once before each bench so timing gate surfaces a sloppy runner clock immediately. - Adds `--threads 1` to match the OpenVX-vs-OpenCV bench downstream, keeping the PR-vs-main comparison apples-to-apples with the OpenVX-vs-OpenCV one. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
…nd 3) Four legitimate review findings from Copilot's review of 5016a19, plus one additional unguarded AVX2 callsite that the same class-of-bug grep found in ago_haf_cpu_geometric.cpp: - ago_platform.cpp: mark the inline `cpuid` and `xgetbv` asm blocks `volatile` with a "memory" clobber. cpuid / xgetbv are intentionally ordered hardware/OS state queries (feature detection, XCR0), and we do not want the optimizer to reorder them across surrounding feature-flag derivation or merge two adjacent identical-input invocations. The "memory" clobber also forces a compiler memory fence so subsequent reads of agoGetCpuFeatures() observe the probe. - ago_haf_cpu_fast_corners.cpp: drop the dead `any_nz` precomputation in the SIMD non-max suppression prefilter. The signed _mm_cmpgt_epi8 result was being computed and then discarded — the actual "all candidates in this 16-byte window are zero" decision is made one line below via the unsigned-correct `_mm_max_epu8 + _mm_cmpeq_epi8` pair, so the signed version was both wrong-in-spirit and unused. Comment expanded so the next reader doesn't reintroduce it. - ago_haf_cpu_arithmetic.cpp::HafCpu_Histogram_DATA_U8: wrap the AVX2 four-way bin-merge tree (`_mm256_loadu/_add_epi32/_storeu`) in `#if USE_AVX` and add an equivalent scalar 256-bin merge for USE_AVX=0 builds. The merge is O(NUM_BINS) and runs once per call, so the scalar fallback is essentially free; the AVX2 form is still preferred when available because it folds the four sub-tables into one ymm-wide add tree. - ago_haf_cpu_geometric.cpp::ScaleImage 2x-downscale path: wrap the AVX2 32-px/iter inner loop in `#if USE_AVX`. The SSE 16-px/iter loop directly below it (plus the scalar tail) is already a complete fallback that walks `x` from 0 to dstWidth on its own when the AVX2 loop is compiled out — same algorithm, narrower vectors. ones256/round256 constants moved inside the gate too so there are no unused __m256i declarations. Validation: - Default (USE_AVX=1) build of libopenvx.dylib + libvxu.dylib clean. - USE_AVX=0 smoke build (`-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-DUSE_AVX=0`) now also compiles cleanly — this is exactly the failure mode that Copilot was flagging on each individual unguarded callsite. - Targeted CTS subset on the rebuilt libs (Histogram.*:HalfScaleGaussian.*: Scale.*:FastCorners.*:Multiply.*:vxMultiply.*:vxuMultiply.*) — 1509 required vision tests pass, 0 fail. Also note re: two of the Copilot comments on commit 5016a19: the two `Mul scale==1.0` AVX2 fast paths flagged at lines 5756 and 5876 were already wrapped under `#if USE_AVX ... #endif` in 5016a19 — the bot appears to have re-flagged the same block after its line numbers shifted. No code change needed there; left in place. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
…nd 4) Two legitimate findings from Copilot's review of a7a6c29: - ago_platform.cpp::agoIsCpuHardwareSupported(): the support gate previously only checked SSE4.2, but the binary now emits AVX2 (and optionally BMI2) instructions whenever USE_AVX / USE_BMI2 are compiled in (the default since PR ROCm#1657). On a SSE4.2-only Nehalem- class CPU we would have happily created a vx_context and then SIGILL'd on the first AVX2 kernel invocation. Tighten the gate to also require f.avx2 when USE_AVX==1 and f.bmi2 when USE_BMI2==1. The runtime AVX2 bit already AND-folds the OSXSAVE / XCR0 OS-state check inside agoGetCpuFeatures(), so an OS that disabled AVX state save also correctly fails this gate. Mirrors the same `#ifndef USE_AVX … #define USE_AVX 1 … #endif` block from ago_internal.h locally in ago_platform.cpp so a single -DUSE_AVX=0 on the CMake line propagates consistently to both translation units (this file is compiled before the later, !_WIN32-gated ago_internal.h include). - ago_drama_divide.cpp::agoDramaDivideCannyEdgeDetectorNode(): the fused-vs-separate selection comment claimed the 5x5 / 7x7 fused variants were "not yet implemented", but the symbols actually do exist (registered in ago_kernel_list.cpp; declared in ago_haf_cpu.h). Rewrite the comment to reflect what's really going on: the HafCpu_CannySobelSuppThreshold_U8XY_U8_{5x5,7x7}_L{1,2}NORM bodies in ago_haf_cpu_canny.cpp / ago_haf_cpu.cpp are stubs that return AGO_ERROR_HAFCPU_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, so dispatching to them would fail the graph. The runtime gate `gradient_size == 3` stays as-is — it's the correct guard against the stub dispatch. Note re: the three other Copilot comments on a7a6c29 (lines 5756, 5876, 7691 in ago_haf_cpu_arithmetic.cpp): all three blocks are already inside `#if USE_AVX … #endif` regions in commit a7a6c29 (the Mul Sat_Trunc fast path at 5730-5765, the Mul Sat_Round fast path at 5851-5885, and the Histogram_DATA_U8 merge at 7681-7698 with its scalar #else fallback). The bot's line-tracking appears to be re-flagging the same blocks after each commit's line shifts. Replying to them on the PR as outdated. Validation: - Default (USE_AVX=1, USE_BMI2=1) build of libopenvx.dylib + libvxu.dylib clean. - USE_AVX=0 smoke build (`-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-DUSE_AVX=0`) still clean. - Targeted CTS subset on the rebuilt libs (Canny.*:cannyEdgeDetector.*: Histogram.*:Multiply.*:vxMultiply.*:vxuMultiply.*) — 478 required vision tests pass, 0 fail. Confirms the tightened hardware gate does not regress conformance on a CPU that does support the binary's required ISA (host machine has AVX2+BMI2). Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
…nd 5) Two findings from Copilot's review of 22f9a02: - ago_haf_cpu_filter.cpp::HafCpu_SobelMagnitude_S16_8: switch the int32 conversion from `_mm256_cvttps_epi32` (truncate toward zero) back to `_mm256_cvtps_epi32` (round-to-nearest-even per the default MXCSR). The legacy double-precision pipeline this AVX2 helper replaced rounded the magnitude before packing to int16; truncate-toward-zero biased every non-integer sqrt result down by 1, which can produce systematic -1 differences vs the CTS reference right at the Canny hysteresis threshold boundary. Same operand otherwise — sumf and the sqrt are unchanged, only the i32 conversion mode flips. - ago_haf_cpu_arithmetic.cpp: remove the unused `HafCpu_PackEightI32ToI16` helper that was declared inside the `#if USE_AVX` helper section but never referenced anywhere in the translation unit (grep across amd_openvx/openvx/ago confirms zero call sites). `static inline` mostly insulates clang/gcc from `-Wunused-function`, but the function is dead code regardless — cheaper to drop it than to maintain a forwarding promise. Validation: - Default (USE_AVX=1, USE_BMI2=1) build of libopenvx.dylib + libvxu.dylib clean. - USE_AVX=0 smoke build (`-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-DUSE_AVX=0`) still clean. - CTS subset matching `*Canny*:*Sobel*:*Phase*:*Magnitude*` (every test that exercises the rounding fix) — 74 required tests pass, 0 fail. Includes the Canny pyramid tests that were sensitive to the -1 bias at the hysteresis threshold. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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* AMD OpenVX - Round-2 CPU kernel optimizations for OpenCV parity Follow-up to #1663 targeting the kernels still below 1x OpenCV parity in the openvx-mark FHD benchmark on the conformance.yml CI matrix: MeanStdDev 0.40x -> defer i32->i64 widening of squared-sums MinMax 0.43x -> 4x unroll with independent accumulator chains MinMaxLoc 0.43x -> AVX2 + popcount, eliminates per-bit iteration Phase 0.68x -> rcp_ps + 1 NR step instead of div_ps CustomConv 0.70x -> AVX2 3xN convolve (mullo/mulhi_epi16 vs mullo_epi32) amd_openvx/openvx/ago/ago_haf_cpu_arithmetic.cpp - HafCpu_MeanStdDev_DATA_U8: split the existing _AVX2 accumulator helper into per-iter (i32 partials via madd_epi16) and periodic-widen (i32->i64 every 1024 iters) phases. Breaks the long sumSquared dependency chain that limited throughput on Zen. - HafCpu_MinMax_DATA_U8: unroll to 128-byte chunks with 4 independent min/max accumulator chains; in-lane reduction at the end (cuts the serial dep chain of consecutive max/min_epu8 ops). - HafCpu_MinMaxLoc_DATA_U8DATA_Loc_None_Count_{Min,Max,MinMax}: replace SSE 16-byte loop + per-bit movemask iteration with AVX2 32-byte loop + HafCpu_PopCount32 on each movemask. Also fixes a pre-existing copy-paste bug in the Count_Max prefix/postfix scalar tails that compared against globalMin instead of globalMax (only fires on non-16-aligned widths, which is why CTS images masked it). - HafCpu_Phase_U8_S16S16 (both 16-wide and 8-wide paths): replace _mm256_div_ps with rcp_ps + 1 Newton-Raphson step (~24-bit precision). Output is u8 with +/-1 OpenVX tolerance, so the residual error is well within spec. amd_openvx/openvx/ago/ago_haf_cpu_filter.cpp - HafCpu_Convolve_U8_U8_3xN: new AVX2 fast path processing 32 dst pixels per iter. Uses mullo_epi16/mulhi_epi16 (1c throughput on Zen) instead of the SSE path's mullo_epi32 (3c throughput), then in-lane unpack + packs_epi32 + packus_epi16 + a single permute4x64_epi64 fix-up. Fixes the alignedWidth-was-being-mutated bug that broke conformance during initial development. - HafCpu_FastAtan2_PhaseByte_8 (Canny/Sobel inner helper): same div_ps -> rcp_ps + 1 NR step replacement as the Phase kernel. Conformance Full OpenVX-cts 1.3 run against the rebuilt libopenvx (HOST backend): 5820 tests run, 5817 pass, 3 fail. The 3 failures are the same pre-existing macOS-only SmokeTestBase dynamic-loading failures present on the parent commit (#1663) before any of these edits. Targeted kernel filter (*MinMaxLoc*:*MinMax*:*MeanStdDev*:*Phase*:*Magnitude*:*Convolve*:*CustomConvolution*): 1025/1025 pass, 0 fail. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com> * AMD OpenVX - AVX2 path for ColorConvert RGB->IYUV (was 0.58x of OpenCV) HafCpu_ColorConvert_IYUV_RGB (RGB -> IYUV, despite the misleading function name) was the largest remaining sub-1x kernel after #1663 that's still simple enough to tackle without a full rewrite. The existing SSE path processed only 4 input pixels per outer iter and serialized R/G/B extraction through a long `_mm_srli_si128(row, 1)` dependency chain (one byte shifted off at a time across 3 channels x 2 rows). amd_openvx/openvx/ago/ago_haf_cpu_color_convert.cpp - New AVX2 fast path on top of the existing SSE path (behind `#if USE_AVX`): processes 8 source pixels per row x 2 rows = 16 input pixels per outer iter, emitting 16 Y, 4 U, 4 V output bytes. - Source layout per row: two 16-byte loads (offset 0 and offset +12) inserted into a __m256i. Three independent `_mm256_shuffle_epi8` masks then extract R, G, B as 8-lane i32 vectors with no inter-channel dependency. - BT.709 coefficients computed in 256-bit FP (`_mm256_mul_ps` + `_mm256_add_ps`). The 6 outputs (Y, U, V across 2 rows) form 6 independent dependency chains, so the AVX2 path can keep both FP issue ports busy. - Chroma subsample uses the exact same step sequence as the SSE path (`avg_epu16` vertical, then `hadd_epi16` + `(x+1)>>1` horizontal), so output bytes are bit-identical to the SSE iter for every aligned 8-pixel column. - Width handling: AVX2 chunk handles `dstWidth & ~7`, falls through to the existing SSE 4-pixel iter for the remainder (`& ~3`), then the original scalar 2-pixel tail. All three paths reach the same output for every column. - Memory safety: per row we read bytes 0..27 (+12 load reaches byte 27 of the row). OpenVX image pitch always rounds up to >= 16 bytes and the loop bound is `dstWidth & ~7`, so the +12 load stays within the allocated row pitch for any dstWidth >= 8. Conformance (OpenVX-cts 1.3, HOST backend) Full suite: 5820 tests run, 5817 pass, 3 fail. The 3 failures are the same pre-existing macOS-only SmokeTestBase dynamic-loading failures present on every commit on this branch (and on develop/205261f8) before any of these edits. Targeted filter (*ColorConvert*:*ChannelExtract*:*ChannelCombine*): 124 / 124 pass, 0 fail. Bit-identical-output verification on aligned 8-pixel columns relies on matching the SSE chroma-subsample step sequence exactly; the postfix paths exercise the existing SSE+scalar tails unchanged. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com> * AMD OpenVX - Revert Phase rcp_ps fast path (perf regression in CI) The rcp_ps + 1 Newton-Raphson replacement for _mm256_div_ps that I introduced earlier in this PR turned out to be a net slowdown on the ROCm CI runner, not a speedup. The Release-OpenVX-vs-OpenCV bench on commit 5f1a06d shows Phase at 0.5680x vs 0.68x on develop - a clear regression. Likely cause: on the runner's microarchitecture the critical dependency chain through `rcp(d) -> d*rcp -> (2-x) -> rcp*new -> mn*rcp` (5 dependent FP ops) is longer than the single hardware div_ps it replaced, and the surrounding loop is latency-bound rather than div-throughput-bound. The rcp form pays off when div is the throughput bottleneck across many independent iterations, which is not the shape of this kernel's hot loop. Reverting both call sites: * HafCpu_Phase_U8_S16S16 (16-wide and 8-wide AVX2 paths in ago_haf_cpu_arithmetic.cpp) * HafCpu_FastAtan2_PhaseByte_8 (Canny/Sobel inner helper in ago_haf_cpu_filter.cpp) restores them to the pre-PR `_mm256_div_ps(mn, mx + eps)` form. Conformance (HOST backend, *Phase*:*Magnitude*:*Canny*:*Sobel* filter): 74 / 74 tests pass. The other 5 round-2 optimizations in this PR are unaffected by this revert and confirmed wins per the CI benchmark on 5f1a06d: MeanStdDev 0.40x -> 0.82x ( +106% ) CustomConvolution 0.70x -> 1.16x ( +66% ) ColorConvert_RGB2IYUV 0.58x -> 1.19x ( +105% ) MinMaxLoc moved only 0.43x -> 0.46x because cv::minMaxLoc asks for locations, so the OpenVX path actually exercises HafCpu_MinMaxLoc_..._Loc_MinMax_Count_MinMax (which was already AVX2+popcount-optimized) rather than the Loc_None_Count_* variants I touched. That kernel's gap vs OpenCV is structural - the graph decomposes MinMaxLoc into a separate MinMax pass + a MinMaxLoc pass, so the data is scanned twice end-to-end. Fixing that requires a graph-level fused kernel and is a separate PR. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com> * AMD OpenVX - Second-pass U8 statistics optimizations Improve the U8 statistics hot paths with low-risk changes that preserve exact results while exposing more CPU parallelism. MeanStdDev now uses four independent AVX2 accumulation chains over 128-byte blocks and flushes the squared partials less often. This keeps the same integer accumulation semantics while reducing dependency pressure and widening instruction-level parallelism. MinMax_DATA_U8 now exits early once the full U8 extrema range has been proven. This is exact for U8 images and helps MinMaxLoc workloads because the current graph still performs a separate min/max pre-pass before scanning again for locations. Verification: cmake --build build --target openvx openvx-mark --kernel MeanStdDev,MinMaxLoc --resolution FHD --iterations 30 --warmup 5 openvx-mark --category statistical --resolution FHD --iterations 20 --warmup 5 Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com> * AMD OpenVX - Address PR review comments on CPU kernel optimizations Three targeted fixes for issues raised in the Copilot review of PR 1664: 1) HafCpu_Convolve_U8_U8_3xN: align SSE shift semantics with the AVX2 and scalar paths. The new AVX2 path uses _mm256_srai_epi32 (arithmetic right shift) so that negative intermediates clamp to 0 in the subsequent unsigned packus pack to U8, matching the scalar prefix/postfix clamp(0,255) behavior. The pre-existing SSE remainder loop was using _mm_srli_epi32 (logical right shift), which silently turns negative intermediates into large positives that saturate to 255 instead of 0. Switched the four SSE shifts to _mm_srai_epi32 so all three paths produce the same output for every conv coefficient sign, including the case where the AVX2 path handles most of the row and the SSE path handles the 16-pixel remainder. 2) HafCpu_ColorConvert_IYUV_RGB AVX2 path: tighten the high-half load offset to avoid reading past the end of the 24-byte RGB working set. The previous code did _mm_loadu_si128(pLocalSrc + 12), which reaches bytes 12..27 even though an 8-pixel RGB iteration only consumes bytes 0..23. On the last 2-row block of an image whose source pitch is exactly 3*dstWidth (no trailing padding) this peeks 4 bytes past the row end and, on the bottom row, past the image buffer. Changed the high-half load to (pLocalSrc + 8), so the read covers bytes 8..23 only -- strictly inside the 24-byte RGB span. Lane 1's shuffle masks now extract pixels 4..7 at the byte offsets {4,7,10,13} / {5,8,11,14} / {6,9,12,15}, preserving bit-identical output vs the SSE path. 3) HafCpu_MeanStdDev_DATA_U8: correct the overflow-safety comment. The previous comment claimed each iter contributes up to 8*(4*255^2) = 2,080,800 to a single i32 lane. The correct per-lane bound is 2*(2*255^2) = 4*65,025 = 260,100, because each madd_epi16 result already holds the pair-sum of two squared u8 values. INT32_MAX / 260,100 is about 8,255, so flushInterval = 8192 is the largest power-of-two cadence that stays under INT32_MAX for the worst-case path (the 32-byte remainder loop drives only chain 0 with ++=1 per iter). Comment was updated to reflect this and to spell out the per-chain budget for the 128-byte main loop separately. Verification (local, FHD, openvx-mark v1.1.0): ./build/openvx-mark-bench/build/openvx-mark --kernel MeanStdDev,MinMaxLoc,ColorConvert_RGB2IYUV,CustomConvolution,Phase --resolution FHD --iterations 30 --warmup 5 -> 5 / 5 verified (output diff vs OpenCV reference within tolerance) ./build/openvx-mark-bench/build/openvx-mark --category filters,color,statistical --resolution FHD --iterations 10 -> 26 / 26 verified, 0 failed Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Motivation
Implement SIMD optimization
Technical Details
AVX2 paths for:
Test Plan
Current functional and performance tests
Test Result
All functional tests should have no issues and performance has to show significant speed-ups
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