Fast vectorized conversion from RGB to BGRA

Question

In a follow-up to some previous questions on converting RGB to RGBA, and ARGB to BGR, I would like to speed up a RGB to BGRA conversion with SSE. Assume a 32-bit machine, and would like to use intrinsics. I'm having difficulty aligning both source and destination buffers to work with 128-bit registers, and seek for other savvy vectorization solutions.

The routine to be vectorized is as follows...

    void RGB8ToBGRX8(int w, const void *in, void *out)
    {
        int i;
        int width = w;
        const unsigned char *src= (const unsigned char*) in;
        unsigned int *dst= (unsigned int*) out;
        unsigned int invalue, outvalue;

        for (i=0; i<width; i++, src+=3, dst++)
        {
                invalue = src[0];
                outvalue = (invalue<<16);
                invalue = src[1];
                outvalue |= (invalue<<8);
                invalue = src[2];
                outvalue |= (invalue);
                *dst = outvalue | 0xff000000;
        }
      }

This routine gets used primarly for large textures (512KB), so if I can parallelize some of the operations, it may be beneficial to process more pixels at a go. Of course, I'll need to profile. :)

Edit:

My compilation arguments...

gcc -O2 main.c

Answer 1

This is an example of using SSSE3 intrinsics to perform the requested operation. The input and output pointers must be 16-byte aligned, and it operates on a block of 16 pixels at a time.

#include <tmmintrin.h>

/* in and out must be 16-byte aligned */
void rgb_to_bgrx_sse(unsigned w, const void *in, void *out)
{
    const __m128i *in_vec = in;
    __m128i *out_vec = out;

    w /= 16;

    while (w-- > 0) {
        /*             0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10 11 12 13 14 15
         * in_vec[0]   Ra Ga Ba Rb Gb Bb Rc Gc Bc Rd Gd Bd Re Ge Be Rf
         * in_vec[1]   Gf Bf Rg Gg Bg Rh Gh Bh Ri Gi Bi Rj Gj Bj Rk Gk
         * in_vec[2]   Bk Rl Gl Bl Rm Gm Bm Rn Gn Bn Ro Go Bo Rp Gp Bp
         */
        __m128i in1, in2, in3;
        __m128i out;

        in1 = in_vec[0];

        out = _mm_shuffle_epi8(in1,
            _mm_set_epi8(0xff, 9, 10, 11, 0xff, 6, 7, 8, 0xff, 3, 4, 5, 0xff, 0, 1, 2));
        out = _mm_or_si128(out,
            _mm_set_epi8(0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0, 0, 0));
        out_vec[0] = out;

        in2 = in_vec[1];

        in1 = _mm_and_si128(in1,
            _mm_set_epi8(0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0));
        out = _mm_and_si128(in2,
            _mm_set_epi8(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff));
        out = _mm_or_si128(out, in1);
        out = _mm_shuffle_epi8(out,
            _mm_set_epi8(0xff, 5, 6, 7, 0xff, 2, 3, 4, 0xff, 15, 0, 1, 0xff, 12, 13, 14));
        out = _mm_or_si128(out,
            _mm_set_epi8(0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0, 0, 0));
        out_vec[1] = out;

        in3 = in_vec[2];
        in_vec += 3;

        in2 = _mm_and_si128(in2,
            _mm_set_epi8(0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0));
        out = _mm_and_si128(in3,
            _mm_set_epi8(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff));
        out = _mm_or_si128(out, in2);
        out = _mm_shuffle_epi8(out,
            _mm_set_epi8(0xff, 1, 2, 3, 0xff, 14, 15, 0, 0xff, 11, 12, 13, 0xff, 8, 9, 10));
        out = _mm_or_si128(out,
            _mm_set_epi8(0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0, 0, 0));
        out_vec[2] = out;

        out = _mm_shuffle_epi8(in3,
            _mm_set_epi8(0xff, 13, 14, 15, 0xff, 10, 11, 12, 0xff, 7, 8, 9, 0xff, 4, 5, 6));
        out = _mm_or_si128(out,
            _mm_set_epi8(0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0, 0, 0));
        out_vec[3] = out;

        out_vec += 4;
    }
}