Fastest way to calculate a 128-bit integer modulo a 64-bit integer

Question

I have a 128-bit unsigned integer A and a 64-bit unsigned integer B. What\'s the fastest way to calculate A % B - that is the (64-bit) remainder from dividing A

Answer 1

This is almost untested partly speed modificated Mod128by64 'Russian peasant' algorithm function. Unfortunately I'm a Delphi user so this function works under Delphi. :) But the assembler is almost the same so...

function Mod128by64(Dividend: PUInt128; Divisor: PUInt64): UInt64;
//In : eax = @Dividend
//   : edx = @Divisor
//Out: eax:edx as Remainder
asm
//Registers inside rutine
//Divisor = edx:ebp
//Dividend = bh:ebx:edx //We need 64 bits + 1 bit in bh
//Result = esi:edi
//ecx = Loop counter and Dividend index
  push    ebx                     //Store registers to stack
  push    esi
  push    edi
  push    ebp
  mov     ebp, [edx]              //Divisor = edx:ebp
  mov     edx, [edx + 4]
  mov     ecx, ebp                //Div by 0 test
  or      ecx, edx                
  jz      @DivByZero
  xor     edi, edi                //Clear result
  xor     esi, esi
//Start of 64 bit division Loop
  mov     ecx, 15                 //Load byte loop shift counter and Dividend index
@SkipShift8Bits:                  //Small Dividend numbers shift optimisation
  cmp     [eax + ecx], ch         //Zero test
  jnz     @EndSkipShiftDividend
  loop    @SkipShift8Bits         //Skip 8 bit loop
@EndSkipShiftDividend:
  test    edx, $FF000000          //Huge Divisor Numbers Shift Optimisation
  jz      @Shift8Bits             //This Divisor is > $00FFFFFF:FFFFFFFF
  mov     ecx, 8                  //Load byte shift counter
  mov     esi, [eax + 12]         //Do fast 56 bit (7 bytes) shift...
  shr     esi, cl                 //esi = $00XXXXXX
  mov     edi, [eax + 9]          //Load for one byte right shifted 32 bit value
@Shift8Bits:
  mov     bl, [eax + ecx]         //Load 8 bits of Dividend
//Here we can unrole partial loop 8 bit division to increase execution speed...
  mov     ch, 8                   //Set partial byte counter value
@Do65BitsShift:
  shl     bl, 1                   //Shift dividend left for one bit
  rcl     edi, 1
  rcl     esi, 1
  setc    bh                      //Save 65th bit
  sub     edi, ebp                //Compare dividend and  divisor
  sbb     esi, edx                //Subtract the divisor
  sbb     bh, 0                   //Use 65th bit in bh
  jnc     @NoCarryAtCmp           //Test...
  add     edi, ebp                //Return privius dividend state
  adc     esi, edx
@NoCarryAtCmp:
  dec     ch                      //Decrement counter
  jnz     @Do65BitsShift
//End of 8 bit (byte) partial division loop
  dec     cl                      //Decrement byte loop shift counter
  jns     @Shift8Bits             //Last jump at cl = 0!!!
//End of 64 bit division loop
  mov     eax, edi                //Load result to eax:edx
  mov     edx, esi
@RestoreRegisters:
  pop     ebp                     //Restore Registers
  pop     edi
  pop     esi
  pop     ebx
  ret
@DivByZero:
  xor     eax, eax                //Here you can raise Div by 0 exception, now function only return 0.
  xor     edx, edx
  jmp     @RestoreRegisters
end;

At least one more speed optimisation is possible! After 'Huge Divisor Numbers Shift Optimisation' we can test divisors high bit, if it is 0 we do not need to use extra bh register as 65th bit to store in it. So unrolled part of loop can look like:

  shl     bl,1                    //Shift dividend left for one bit
  rcl     edi,1
  rcl     esi,1
  sub     edi, ebp                //Compare dividend and  divisor
  sbb     esi, edx                //Subtract the divisor
  jnc     @NoCarryAtCmpX
  add     edi, ebp                //Return privius dividend state
  adc     esi, edx
@NoCarryAtCmpX: