bcachefs: Optimize eytzinger0_sort() with bottom-up heapsort

This optimization reduces the average number of comparisons required
from 2*n*log2(n) - 3*n + o(n) to n*log2(n) + 0.37*n + o(n). When n is
sufficiently large, it results in approximately 50% fewer comparisons.

Currently, eytzinger0_sort employs the textbook version of heapsort,
where during the heapify process, each level requires two comparisons
to determine the maximum among three elements. In contrast, the
bottom-up heapsort, during heapify, only compares two children at each
level until reaching a leaf node. Then, it backtracks from the leaf
node to find the correct position. Since heapify typically continues
until very close to the leaf node, the standard heapify requires about
2*log2(n) comparisons, while the bottom-up variant only needs log2(n)
comparisons.

The experimental data presented below is based on an array generated
by get_random_u32().

|   N   | comparisons(old) | comparisons(new) | time(old) | time(new) |
|-------|------------------|------------------|-----------|-----------|
| 10000 |     235381       |     136615       |  25545 us |  20366 us |
| 20000 |     510694       |     293425       |  31336 us |  18312 us |
| 30000 |     800384       |     457412       |  35042 us |  27386 us |
| 40000 |    1101617       |     626831       |  48779 us |  38253 us |
| 50000 |    1409762       |     799637       |  62238 us |  46950 us |
| 60000 |    1721191       |     974521       |  75588 us |  58367 us |
| 70000 |    2038536       |    1152171       |  90823 us |  68778 us |
| 80000 |    2362958       |    1333472       | 104165 us |  78625 us |
| 90000 |    2690900       |    1516065       | 116111 us |  89573 us |
| 100000|    3019413       |    1699879       | 133638 us | 100998 us |

Refs:
  BOTTOM-UP-HEAPSORT, a new variant of HEAPSORT beating, on an average,
  QUICKSORT (if n is not very small)
  Ingo Wegener
  Theoretical Computer Science, 118(1); Pages 81-98, 13 September 1993
  https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3975(93)90364-Y

Signed-off-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
This commit is contained in:
Kuan-Wei Chiu 2024-04-07 11:39:04 +08:00 committed by Kent Overstreet
parent be31bf439c
commit 0ddb5f0854

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@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ void eytzinger0_sort_r(void *base, size_t n, size_t size,
swap_r_func_t swap_func,
const void *priv)
{
int i, c, r;
int i, j, k;
/* called from 'sort' without swap function, let's pick the default */
if (swap_func == SWAP_WRAPPER && !((struct wrapper *)priv)->swap_func)
@ -188,17 +188,22 @@ void eytzinger0_sort_r(void *base, size_t n, size_t size,
/* heapify */
for (i = n / 2 - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
for (r = i; r * 2 + 1 < n; r = c) {
c = r * 2 + 1;
/* Find the sift-down path all the way to the leaves. */
for (j = i; k = j * 2 + 1, k + 1 < n;)
j = eytzinger0_do_cmp(base, n, size, cmp_func, priv, k, k + 1) > 0 ? k : k + 1;
if (c + 1 < n &&
eytzinger0_do_cmp(base, n, size, cmp_func, priv, c, c + 1) < 0)
c++;
/* Special case for the last leaf with no sibling. */
if (j * 2 + 2 == n)
j = j * 2 + 1;
if (eytzinger0_do_cmp(base, n, size, cmp_func, priv, r, c) >= 0)
break;
/* Backtrack to the correct location. */
while (j != i && eytzinger0_do_cmp(base, n, size, cmp_func, priv, i, j) >= 0)
j = (j - 1) / 2;
eytzinger0_do_swap(base, n, size, swap_func, priv, r, c);
/* Shift the element into its correct place. */
for (k = j; j != i;) {
j = (j - 1) / 2;
eytzinger0_do_swap(base, n, size, swap_func, priv, j, k);
}
}
@ -206,17 +211,22 @@ void eytzinger0_sort_r(void *base, size_t n, size_t size,
for (i = n - 1; i > 0; --i) {
eytzinger0_do_swap(base, n, size, swap_func, priv, 0, i);
for (r = 0; r * 2 + 1 < i; r = c) {
c = r * 2 + 1;
/* Find the sift-down path all the way to the leaves. */
for (j = 0; k = j * 2 + 1, k + 1 < i;)
j = eytzinger0_do_cmp(base, n, size, cmp_func, priv, k, k + 1) > 0 ? k : k + 1;
if (c + 1 < i &&
eytzinger0_do_cmp(base, n, size, cmp_func, priv, c, c + 1) < 0)
c++;
/* Special case for the last leaf with no sibling. */
if (j * 2 + 2 == i)
j = j * 2 + 1;
if (eytzinger0_do_cmp(base, n, size, cmp_func, priv, r, c) >= 0)
break;
/* Backtrack to the correct location. */
while (j && eytzinger0_do_cmp(base, n, size, cmp_func, priv, 0, j) >= 0)
j = (j - 1) / 2;
eytzinger0_do_swap(base, n, size, swap_func, priv, r, c);
/* Shift the element into its correct place. */
for (k = j; j;) {
j = (j - 1) / 2;
eytzinger0_do_swap(base, n, size, swap_func, priv, j, k);
}
}
}
@ -232,3 +242,64 @@ void eytzinger0_sort(void *base, size_t n, size_t size,
return eytzinger0_sort_r(base, n, size, _CMP_WRAPPER, SWAP_WRAPPER, &w);
}
#if 0
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/ktime.h>
static u64 cmp_count;
static int mycmp(const void *a, const void *b)
{
u32 _a = *(u32 *)a;
u32 _b = *(u32 *)b;
cmp_count++;
if (_a < _b)
return -1;
else if (_a > _b)
return 1;
else
return 0;
}
static int test(void)
{
size_t N, i;
ktime_t start, end;
s64 delta;
u32 *arr;
for (N = 10000; N <= 100000; N += 10000) {
arr = kmalloc_array(N, sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
cmp_count = 0;
for (i = 0; i < N; i++)
arr[i] = get_random_u32();
start = ktime_get();
eytzinger0_sort(arr, N, sizeof(u32), mycmp, NULL);
end = ktime_get();
delta = ktime_us_delta(end, start);
printk(KERN_INFO "time: %lld\n", delta);
printk(KERN_INFO "comparisons: %lld\n", cmp_count);
u32 prev = 0;
eytzinger0_for_each(i, N) {
if (prev > arr[i])
goto err;
prev = arr[i];
}
kfree(arr);
}
return 0;
err:
kfree(arr);
return -1;
}
#endif