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perf(ext): scan the ungapped analyzer's tail in one 16-byte step on AVX2 - #696
ungapped_analyze scans the query and target 16 bases at a time for ambiguous bases and mismatches, then finished the last 1–15 bases (the tail, or the whole read below 16 bases) one base at a time. On AVX2 and AVX-512BW builds this PR scans the tail in one 16-byte step. Output remains byte-identical for encoded read bases. arm64 (NEON) builds keep the scalar tail. Review fixes also reject high-valued ambiguous bytes consistently in full blocks.
The load. The tail is loaded with x86_soa_tail16, the helper the x86 SoA pack already uses for its boundary tiles. It puts positions [i, N) in bytes [0, r) (r = N - i) and never reads outside [seq, seq + N): with N >= 16 it loads the 16 bytes that end at seq + N and shuffles the tail down, and below 16 bases it reads the first and last a bytes (a the largest power of two <= N), which together cover the read. Both sequences are read with length N, so no padding past the query or the reference window is assumed.
The tests. The ambiguity test and the mismatch mask run on the vector and keep only the r valid lanes ((1 << r) - 1). The ambiguity test rejects any bit outside 0x03, including codes of 128 and up; the full-block check now uses the same unsigned rule. i is 16-aligned, so the mask lands within one bitmap word, as in the block loop. Returning FALLBACK before the mismatch count skips writes to mis and total_mis that the scalar tail made, but both are locals that FALLBACK never reads.
Guards. The vector tail is under #if defined(__AVX2__), which -mavx2 and -mavx512f -mavx512bw both define; bwamem.cpp is built once at the baseline tier, so the AVX2 and AVX-512BW builds both take it. arm64 takes the #else branch. x86_soa_pack.h is included only in the x86 AVX2/AVX-512 branch of the header's SIMD selection.
Correctness
Review-fix validation on macOS arm64/NEON, Apple clang 21: full make test passes (713 unit cases), and band_cert_identity.sh passes SAM/BAM parity and capped-rung execution/carry assertions for -d 70 and -w 30. This supersedes the historical generated-code claims below for the review fixes: the unsigned ambiguity guard and opt-in routing observations change production source. No kernel implementation changes were needed.
Unit tests. The existing ambiguity test now also covers reads shorter than 16 bases, where the whole read is the tail and x86_soa_tail16 takes its short-read loads, and codes 128 and 255 in the tail: codes 4, 5, 8, 15, 16, 64, 128 and 255 go at every tail position on each side for N = 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 15, 16, 17, 31, 33, 47 and 100, and N = 16 (empty tail) stays a HIT. Its in-block probe also rejects codes 128 and 255. A new test runs N = 1..80 and longer lengths up to the fast path's limit, so every tail length 0–15 is covered several times. Mismatches are packed into the last 16 bases (the tail and the bytes a 16-byte step carries in its masked-off lanes), and each sequence sits flush against a PROT_NONE guard page after its last byte or before its first. A third layout puts ambiguous codes in the target's 16 bytes past N, which checks that bytes past N never reach a valid lane; the guard-after layout is the one that proves the target is not read past N. Status and fields are checked against the scalar mismatch bitmap (HIT fields from the walk, TIGHT score from the byte walk). Equal high-valued ambiguous codes in full blocks now require FALLBACK rather than preserving the old signed-compare bug. Both tests run on every tier with the same expected result. The guard-page buffer, which the x86 and NEON SoA-pack tests each defined, moves to a shared test header (test/guarded_seq_test_util.h) that all three tests include.
The tests fail when they should. On an x86-64 AVX2 build: replacing the tail load with a plain 16-byte load at qs + i / rs + i faults on the guard page in the new test, which every other ungapped test passes; dropping the valid-lane mask from the mismatch count or from the ambiguity test fails the new test. A memory-safety-sanitized build of the ungapped suite at the AVX2 tier is clean and flags that out-of-bounds load as a heap-buffer-overflow.
Generated code.bwamem.o (the only aligner object that includes ungapped_ext.h) disassembles identically to the base PR on arm64. The preprocessed header is identical on arm64 too, so no test object that includes it changes there except through its own source. The review follow-ups are comment-only in src/: x86_soa_pack.h now names ungapped_analyze as a caller of x86_soa_tail16, with its line count unchanged. Every aligner object that includes x86_soa_pack.h (bandedSWA.o, kswv.o, bwamem.o, bwamem_pair.o, fastmap.o, rescue_band.o) disassembles identically before and after them on arm64 and on x86 at -mavx2 and at -mavx512f -mavx512bw.
Test suites. Unit suite 617/617 (it includes the NEON SoA-pack test), and test/run_unit_tests.sh passes natively on arm64 (bwtSeed lockstep parity 95/95, SMEM lockstep parity 56/56, seed jump table 37/37, negative-h0 test). On an x86-64 build at the AVX2 tier, the unit suite (596 passed, one AVX-512-only case skipped), x86_soa_pack_test (4/4), the negative-h0 test, the bwtSeed and SMEM lockstep parity tests (95/95, 56/56) and the seed jump table test (37/37) all pass. x86 compiles of the aligner objects above and of x86_soa_pack_test at -mavx512f -mavx512bw pass; AVX-512 was compiled but not run.
End to end. These runs are byte-identical to main (excluding @PG) on arm64 and on an x86 AVX2 build: SE, PE and long-read runs with default options, -d 70, -w 30 and --compat=bwa-mem2, and PE with --ks-dedup=on/off, -k 10, -k 30, -y 1, -y 5 and BWA3_BWTSEED_JUMP=0/12.
Timing runs. SAM output was identical to main on every timing run on all three hosts.
Timing
Whole aligner, mem -t 16 on a 5M-pair WGS slice (HG00096, 2x150, hg38), clang 19.1.7, index in shared memory, 6 interleaved reps per build in a seeded shuffled order on the same host. This change was measured on its own against main. Figures are the paired per-rep delta vs main (median, bootstrap 95% CI).
host
wall
CPU (user)
c7i.4xlarge (Sapphire Rapids, AVX-512BW)
−0.22% [−0.34, −0.16]
−0.18% [−0.23, −0.16]
c6a.4xlarge (Zen 3, AVX2)
−1.07% [−1.72, −0.11]
−0.95% [−1.67, −0.13]
c8g.4xlarge (Graviton4, NEON)
−0.05% [−0.52, +0.14]
−0.15% [−0.52, +0.15]
Start-up included: the first 200k pairs of the same slice, -t 16, with the index loaded from the page cache on every run, 12 interleaved reps:
host
wall
CPU (user)
c7i.4xlarge (Sapphire Rapids, AVX-512BW)
+0.00% [−0.71, +0.00]
−0.12% [−0.64, +0.35]
c6a.4xlarge (Zen 3, AVX2)
−0.16% [−0.64, +0.32]
−0.49% [−1.00, −0.04]
c8g.4xlarge (Graviton4, NEON)
+0.00% [−0.91, +0.00]
−0.07% [−0.32, +0.00]
On Sapphire Rapids and Zen 3 both 5M-pair intervals exclude zero, at about −0.2% and −1.0%; the Zen 3 intervals are wide (upper end about −0.1%). The change is x86-only and leaves the arm64 code unchanged, so Graviton4 is a null control: both of its 5M-pair intervals cross zero, as they should. At 200k only the Zen 3 CPU interval excludes zero; the Sapphire Rapids and Graviton4 wall medians are exactly 0 and their intervals touch it, and the Zen 3 wall and Sapphire Rapids CPU intervals cross it. Read the 200k figures with care. A 200k run takes a few seconds, so the timer's 10 ms resolution is 0.3–0.6% of a run and the wall medians sit on that grid. On Sapphire Rapids that batch also ran faster than main for most changes measured alongside this one, so its 200k figure is not this change's own effect; the 5M-pair runs are the figure to go by. No interval excludes zero on the slow side.
Stack
This PR now targets main after #695 merged. It includes the merged #697 set-bit mismatch walk as a separate logical commit; #698 targets this branch.
Split out of #656, thanks to @jmschrei for the original work.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
Improved sequence extension handling near sequence ends, including mismatch and ambiguous-base checks for short and partial sequences.
Improved reliability of banded alignment across supported settings, with more consistent handling of partial processing groups.
Tests
Expanded coverage for mismatch patterns, sequence boundaries, and guarded memory layouts.
Added regression checks for probe-rung bucket carry and alignment behavior across band widths and thresholds.
The ungapped path now scans mismatch bits in ascending order and uses bounded AVX2 tail handling. Tests add guarded-memory and ambiguity coverage. The probe can emit bucket carry statistics, which the regression script validates.
Changes
Ungapped SIMD tail processing
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Ascending mismatch scan src/ungapped_ext.h
The mismatch walk scans bitmap words and set bits in ascending order. Run scoring, record updates, and stop-at-zero behavior remain unchanged.
The AVX2 path uses x86_soa_tail16 for remaining bases and masks ambiguity and mismatch checks to valid lanes. Full-block ambiguity detection checks for bits outside 0x03.
Tests share a guarded-sequence utility. Ungapped tests cover ambiguity, mismatch-walk patterns, and guarded layouts. Pack tests use the utility, and the Makefile tracks its header prerequisite.
Probe-rung statistics
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Bucket statistics and regression checks src/bwamem.cpp, test/regression/band_cert_identity.sh
When BWA3_PROBE_RUNG_STATS is exactly "1", the probe reports bucket counts, lane and width data, and carry values. The regression checks rung activity and validates bucket records.
The diff adds the unallowlisted tool name mawk at test/regression/band_cert_identity.sh:359 (if ! mawk). The check treats added tool names outside its allowlist as failures. The changed lines co…
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Simd Tier Coverage
The new tail path is guarded by __AVX2__ and uses fixed 16-byte __m128i lanes, so it is not tier-agnostic under this check. The added ungapped tests run in the normal tier builds, but the AVX-512B…
Run unit/ungapped_fastpath in the AVX-512BW test invocation, alongside the existing AVX2, SSE4.1, and NEON runs, or refactor the tail scan to satisfy the check's tier-agnostic SIMD_WIDTH rule.
Equivalence Contract Updated
The PR changes src/ungapped_ext.h, which changes mismatch scanning and ambiguity handling in the ungapped scoring path, so output impact must be considered. The PR changes none of the equivalence, c…
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The diff adds the unallowlisted tool name mawk at test/regression/band_cert_identity.sh:359 (if ! mawk). The check treats added tool names outside its allowlist as failures. The changed lines contain no matching local path or cloud identifier. The prior finding also named “AddressSanitizer,” but the supplied PR description is truncated, so I could not confirm that phrase was removed.
Resolution
Replace mawk with a neutral, standard text-processing command that does not name an unallowlisted implementation. Replace the previously flagged PR-body phrase with “a memory-safety-sanitized build of the ungapped suite at the AVX2 tier,” then review the complete PR body for other prohibited names and identifiers.
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Explanation
The new tail path is guarded by __AVX2__ and uses fixed 16-byte __m128i lanes, so it is not tier-agnostic under this check. The added ungapped tests run in the normal tier builds, but the AVX-512BW CI invocation runs selected suites that omit unit/ungapped_fastpath (.github/workflows/ci.yml:1206-1226). The AVX-512BW variant therefore lacks the required all-tiers parity check. The guard keeps this code out of ARM NEON and SSE4.1 builds, so no incompatible-intrinsic build break is indicated.
Resolution
Run unit/ungapped_fastpath in the AVX-512BW test invocation, alongside the existing AVX2, SSE4.1, and NEON runs, or refactor the tail scan to satisfy the check's tier-agnostic SIMD_WIDTH rule.
Full details: Equivalence Contract Updated
Explanation
The PR changes src/ungapped_ext.h, which changes mismatch scanning and ambiguity handling in the ungapped scoring path, so output impact must be considered. The PR changes none of the equivalence, correctness, or features documents. The visible description says output remains byte-identical for encoded bases, and the objectives report end-to-end parity against main on ARM64 and AVX2. However, the authored description is truncated before that verification detail, so I cannot confirm that the description meets the check’s requirement to state both unchanged output and how it was verified.
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Add an assertion that the probe rung ran in the -d 70 and -w 30 cases.
The A/B compares only output. If a change skips bsw_tb_probe_rung, both cases still produce identical records and pass. ab_identical_certified checks only the startup envelope warning, so it cannot detect that bypass. Count rung executions and fail a case that records none, following the BWA3_KS_DEDUP_STATS pattern.
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Review comment at @test/regression/band_cert_identity.sh around lines 351 - 354:
Add a per-case assertion in the `-d 70` and `-w 30` test paths that at least one
probe-rung execution was recorded, so identical output cannot hide a skipped
`bsw_tb_probe_rung`. Reuse the existing `BWA3_KS_DEDUP_STATS` counting pattern
and retain the current `ab_identical` and safety-envelope checks.
The new ab_identical_certified cases compare only SAM output. The carry at src/bwamem.cpp:7052-7061 changes which bucket runs each pair, not the certified fields, so removing it can leave the SAM unchanged and the suite passing. No test in the tree asserts per-bucket counts or carry. Consider exposing the per-bucket counts behind an env-gated stderr line and asserting them in band_cert_identity.sh.
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Review comment at @test/regression/band_cert_identity.sh around lines 357 - 358:
Extend the regression coverage around ab_identical_certified to assert the
bucket routing or per-bucket counts affected by the carry, rather than relying
only on identical SAM output. If no existing test-visible mechanism exposes
those counts, add a narrowly scoped, environment-gated diagnostic and assert its
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Addressed the unsigned ambiguity finding and both review-body follow-ups. Full 16-byte blocks now reject every ambiguous unsigned byte, including equal 128/255 values, and the tests require FALLBACK rather than preserving the signed-compare bug. Opt-in routing observations expose actual bucket-call counts before and after carry; the committed regression now requires execution, capped width 20, incoming carry, and whole lane groups for both -d 70 and -w 30. Removing the observations makes the regression fail.
Also addressed the conversation's hygiene check by rewording the sanitizer reference and auditing the complete description. Updated stale stack and validation descriptions. The merged set-bit mismatch walk remains a separate signed logical commit with an unchanged patch.
Validation: Apple clang 21, macOS arm64/NEON, full make test (713 unit cases), certified-band SAM/BAM parity, and direct capped-rung assertions pass. Full-PR local self-review corrected stale test commentary; the final pass found no remaining actionable findings. Cross-tier x86 execution is not available locally and remains a CI check. No kernel implementations changed.
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Reject non-top probe-rung records whose width reaches the cap.
The parser checks width <= cap, but it never compares a non-top record with its bucket ceiling. A routing change that runs the width-8 or width-16 buckets at width 20 keeps the count, outgoing, and carry checks valid. The output comparison can also still pass, so the test does not detect the extra width. The added check fails any non-top record at the cap. It does not verify exact bucket ceilings.
Suggested fix
if ( f["cap"] != 20 || f["width"] > f["cap"] ||
f["outgoing"] != expected || f["count"] != total - expected || f["count"] < 0)
bad = 1
+ if (!f["top"] && f["width"] >= f["cap"]) bad = 1
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Review comment at @test/regression/band_cert_identity.sh around lines 363 - 373:
Update the regression record validation to reject non-top records whose width
reaches the cap, while preserving the existing count, outgoing, carry, and cap
checks.
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test/unit/test_ungapped_fastpath.cpp
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Addressed the latest review-body follow-up: capped-rung validation now rejects every non-top record whose width reaches the cap, while retaining the existing count, outgoing, carry and maximum-width checks. A mutation that widens the non-top records to 20 passes the old parser and fails the new parser. The unchanged real routing records pass. Updated the nearby coverage comment and failure diagnostic to match what the parser checks.
Addressed the conversation's SIMD coverage warning: the AVX-512BW unit-test step now runs unit/ungapped_fastpath. Changes to the ungapped header, its unit tests or the shared guarded-sequence helper select full-depth PR CI, so that coverage is not deferred to the merge queue. The ordinary native unit suite continues to cover AVX2 and NEON; older x86 tiers are retired by the existing host-floor policy. Local x86 execution is unavailable on this arm64 host, so AVX-512BW execution remains conditional on CI runner support and is not claimed as local validation.
The public-repo hygiene finding about mawk is a false positive: it is a publicly available text-processing implementation, already required and used by this regression script, not private infrastructure. The sanitizer wording was already neutralized in the previous round. The complete PR description explicitly states unchanged encoded-base output and documents end-to-end comparisons against main across SE, PE and long-read cases on arm64 and AVX2; those historical measurements are not claimed as rerun here.
Validation on macOS arm64/NEON with Apple clang 21: full make test passes (713 unit cases, 4,656,366 assertions, plus integration, standalone, regression and pinned lint checks); the certified-band regression passes SAM/BAM parity and both capped-rung cases. CI-depth controlled-diff checks require full depth for ungapped source/tests and retain light depth for an unrelated README change. Workflow validation passes. Full-PR local self-review fixed one failure-message wording issue; the final pass has no remaining findings. Both logical commits are signed, and the replayed mismatch-walk commit retains an unchanged patch. No production kernel implementation changed.
ungapped_analyze scans 16 bases at a time and finished the last 1-15
bases one at a time. On AVX2 and AVX-512BW builds, load the tail with
x86_soa_tail16, which puts positions [i, N) in the low bytes without
reading outside either sequence, and run the ambiguity test and the
mismatch mask on it, keeping only the valid lanes. The ambiguity test
rejects any bit outside 0x03, including codes of 128 and up. Make the
full-block check unsigned too, so both paths reject every ambiguous
byte. Other builds keep the scalar tail.
The ambiguity test now also covers reads shorter than 16 bases, where
the whole read is the tail and x86_soa_tail16 takes its short-read
loads, and codes of 128 and up in the tail. A new test runs every tail
length 0-15 with each sequence flush against a PROT_NONE guard page
(after its last byte or before its first), mismatches packed into the
last 16 bases and ambiguous codes in the target past N, and checks
status and fields against the scalar mismatch bitmap and the byte walk.
It also rejects equal high-valued ambiguous codes in the full blocks.
Opt-in routing observations assert that capped probe-rung calls run
and preserve whole-lane bucket carry under -d 70 and -w 30. The guard-page buffer the two SoA-pack tests each defined moves to
test/guarded_seq_test_util.h, shared with the new test. The comments
in x86_soa_pack.h name ungapped_analyze as a caller of x86_soa_tail16,
and the test comments that called the tail scalar now describe both
forms.
Co-authored-by: Jacob Schreiber <jacob.schreiber@umassmed.edu>
Fixed the failing rescue developer-docs CI gate. The AVX-512BW workflow step was renamed to include the ungapped suite, but the coverage page still cited its old exact title. Updated that one gate reference; no production code or test behavior changed in this follow-up.
The failure reproduced locally before the correction. Both rescue_docs_lint_selftest.sh and rescue_docs_lint.sh now pass, including gate-name resolution. The full local test target also passes on the final signed tree (713 unit cases, 4,656,366 assertions, plus integration, standalone, regression and pinned lint checks). Full-PR local self-review has no remaining findings. The mismatch-walk logical commit is replayed without a patch change.
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Summary
ungapped_analyzescans the query and target 16 bases at a time for ambiguous bases and mismatches, then finished the last 1–15 bases (the tail, or the whole read below 16 bases) one base at a time. On AVX2 and AVX-512BW builds this PR scans the tail in one 16-byte step. Output remains byte-identical for encoded read bases. arm64 (NEON) builds keep the scalar tail. Review fixes also reject high-valued ambiguous bytes consistently in full blocks.x86_soa_tail16, the helper the x86 SoA pack already uses for its boundary tiles. It puts positions[i, N)in bytes[0, r)(r = N - i) and never reads outside[seq, seq + N): withN >= 16it loads the 16 bytes that end atseq + Nand shuffles the tail down, and below 16 bases it reads the first and lastabytes (athe largest power of two<= N), which together cover the read. Both sequences are read with lengthN, so no padding past the query or the reference window is assumed.rvalid lanes ((1 << r) - 1). The ambiguity test rejects any bit outside0x03, including codes of 128 and up; the full-block check now uses the same unsigned rule.iis 16-aligned, so the mask lands within one bitmap word, as in the block loop. Returning FALLBACK before the mismatch count skips writes tomisandtotal_misthat the scalar tail made, but both are locals that FALLBACK never reads.#if defined(__AVX2__), which-mavx2and-mavx512f -mavx512bwboth define;bwamem.cppis built once at the baseline tier, so the AVX2 and AVX-512BW builds both take it. arm64 takes the#elsebranch.x86_soa_pack.his included only in the x86 AVX2/AVX-512 branch of the header's SIMD selection.Correctness
Review-fix validation on macOS arm64/NEON, Apple clang 21: full
make testpasses (713 unit cases), andband_cert_identity.shpasses SAM/BAM parity and capped-rung execution/carry assertions for-d 70and-w 30. This supersedes the historical generated-code claims below for the review fixes: the unsigned ambiguity guard and opt-in routing observations change production source. No kernel implementation changes were needed.x86_soa_tail16takes its short-read loads, and codes 128 and 255 in the tail: codes 4, 5, 8, 15, 16, 64, 128 and 255 go at every tail position on each side forN= 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 15, 16, 17, 31, 33, 47 and 100, andN = 16(empty tail) stays a HIT. Its in-block probe also rejects codes 128 and 255. A new test runsN = 1..80and longer lengths up to the fast path's limit, so every tail length 0–15 is covered several times. Mismatches are packed into the last 16 bases (the tail and the bytes a 16-byte step carries in its masked-off lanes), and each sequence sits flush against aPROT_NONEguard page after its last byte or before its first. A third layout puts ambiguous codes in the target's 16 bytes pastN, which checks that bytes pastNnever reach a valid lane; the guard-after layout is the one that proves the target is not read pastN. Status and fields are checked against the scalar mismatch bitmap (HIT fields from the walk, TIGHT score from the byte walk). Equal high-valued ambiguous codes in full blocks now require FALLBACK rather than preserving the old signed-compare bug. Both tests run on every tier with the same expected result. The guard-page buffer, which the x86 and NEON SoA-pack tests each defined, moves to a shared test header (test/guarded_seq_test_util.h) that all three tests include.qs + i/rs + ifaults on the guard page in the new test, which every other ungapped test passes; dropping the valid-lane mask from the mismatch count or from the ambiguity test fails the new test. A memory-safety-sanitized build of the ungapped suite at the AVX2 tier is clean and flags that out-of-bounds load as a heap-buffer-overflow.bwamem.o(the only aligner object that includesungapped_ext.h) disassembles identically to the base PR on arm64. The preprocessed header is identical on arm64 too, so no test object that includes it changes there except through its own source. The review follow-ups are comment-only insrc/:x86_soa_pack.hnow namesungapped_analyzeas a caller ofx86_soa_tail16, with its line count unchanged. Every aligner object that includesx86_soa_pack.h(bandedSWA.o,kswv.o,bwamem.o,bwamem_pair.o,fastmap.o,rescue_band.o) disassembles identically before and after them on arm64 and on x86 at-mavx2and at-mavx512f -mavx512bw.test/run_unit_tests.shpasses natively on arm64 (bwtSeed lockstep parity 95/95, SMEM lockstep parity 56/56, seed jump table 37/37, negative-h0test). On an x86-64 build at the AVX2 tier, the unit suite (596 passed, one AVX-512-only case skipped),x86_soa_pack_test(4/4), the negative-h0test, the bwtSeed and SMEM lockstep parity tests (95/95, 56/56) and the seed jump table test (37/37) all pass. x86 compiles of the aligner objects above and ofx86_soa_pack_testat-mavx512f -mavx512bwpass; AVX-512 was compiled but not run.main(excluding@PG) on arm64 and on an x86 AVX2 build: SE, PE and long-read runs with default options,-d 70,-w 30and--compat=bwa-mem2, and PE with--ks-dedup=on/off,-k 10,-k 30,-y 1,-y 5andBWA3_BWTSEED_JUMP=0/12.mainon every timing run on all three hosts.Timing
Whole aligner,
mem -t 16on a 5M-pair WGS slice (HG00096, 2x150, hg38), clang 19.1.7, index in shared memory, 6 interleaved reps per build in a seeded shuffled order on the same host. This change was measured on its own againstmain. Figures are the paired per-rep delta vsmain(median, bootstrap 95% CI).Start-up included: the first 200k pairs of the same slice,
-t 16, with the index loaded from the page cache on every run, 12 interleaved reps:On Sapphire Rapids and Zen 3 both 5M-pair intervals exclude zero, at about −0.2% and −1.0%; the Zen 3 intervals are wide (upper end about −0.1%). The change is x86-only and leaves the arm64 code unchanged, so Graviton4 is a null control: both of its 5M-pair intervals cross zero, as they should. At 200k only the Zen 3 CPU interval excludes zero; the Sapphire Rapids and Graviton4 wall medians are exactly 0 and their intervals touch it, and the Zen 3 wall and Sapphire Rapids CPU intervals cross it. Read the 200k figures with care. A 200k run takes a few seconds, so the timer's 10 ms resolution is 0.3–0.6% of a run and the wall medians sit on that grid. On Sapphire Rapids that batch also ran faster than
mainfor most changes measured alongside this one, so its 200k figure is not this change's own effect; the 5M-pair runs are the figure to go by. No interval excludes zero on the slow side.Stack
This PR now targets main after #695 merged. It includes the merged #697 set-bit mismatch walk as a separate logical commit; #698 targets this branch.
Split out of #656, thanks to @jmschrei for the original work.
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