RFR: 8282664: Unroll by hand StringUTF16 and StringLatin1 polynomial hash loops

Claes Redestad redestad at openjdk.org
Thu Nov 10 15:07:14 UTC 2022


On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:03:28 GMT, Ludovic Henry <luhenry at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Continuing the work initiated by @luhenry to unroll and then intrinsify polynomial hash loops.
>> 
>> I've rewired the library changes to route via a single `@IntrinsicCandidate` method. To make this work I've harmonized how they are invoked so that there's less special handling and checks in the intrinsic. Mainly do the null-check outside of the intrinsic for `Arrays.hashCode` cases.
>> 
>> Having a centralized entry point means it'll be easier to parameterize the factor and start values which are now hard-coded (always 31, and a start value of either one for `Arrays` or zero for `String`). It seems somewhat premature to parameterize this up front.
>> 
>> The current implementation is performance neutral on microbenchmarks on all tested platforms (x64, aarch64) when not enabling the intrinsic. We do add a few trivial method calls which increase the call stack depth, so surprises cannot be ruled out on complex workloads.
>> 
>> With the most recent fixes the x64 intrinsic results on my workstation look like this:
>> 
>> Benchmark                               (size)  Mode  Cnt     Score    Error  Units
>> StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1       1  avgt    5     2.199 ±  0.017  ns/op
>> StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1      10  avgt    5     6.933 ±  0.049  ns/op
>> StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1     100  avgt    5    29.935 ±  0.221  ns/op
>> StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1   10000  avgt    5  1596.982 ±  7.020  ns/op
>> 
>> Baseline:
>> 
>> Benchmark                               (size)  Mode  Cnt     Score    Error  Units
>> StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1       1  avgt    5     2.200 ±  0.013  ns/op
>> StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1      10  avgt    5     9.424 ±  0.122  ns/op
>> StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1     100  avgt    5    90.541 ±  0.512  ns/op
>> StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1   10000  avgt    5  9425.321 ± 67.630  ns/op
>> 
>> I.e. no measurable overhead compared to baseline even for `size == 1`.
>> 
>> The vectorized code now nominally works for all unsigned cases as well as ints, though more testing would be good.
>> 
>> Benchmark for `Arrays.hashCode`:
>> 
>> Benchmark              (size)  Mode  Cnt     Score    Error  Units
>> ArraysHashCode.bytes        1  avgt    5     1.884 ±  0.013  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.bytes       10  avgt    5     6.955 ±  0.040  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.bytes      100  avgt    5    87.218 ±  0.595  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.bytes    10000  avgt    5  9419.591 ± 38.308  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.chars        1  avgt    5     2.200 ±  0.010  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.chars       10  avgt    5     6.935 ±  0.034  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.chars      100  avgt    5    30.216 ±  0.134  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.chars    10000  avgt    5  1601.629 ±  6.418  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.ints         1  avgt    5     2.200 ±  0.007  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.ints        10  avgt    5     6.936 ±  0.034  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.ints       100  avgt    5    29.412 ±  0.268  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.ints     10000  avgt    5  1610.578 ±  7.785  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.shorts       1  avgt    5     1.885 ±  0.012  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.shorts      10  avgt    5     6.961 ±  0.034  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.shorts     100  avgt    5    87.095 ±  0.417  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.shorts   10000  avgt    5  9420.617 ± 50.089  ns/op
>> 
>> Baseline:
>> 
>> Benchmark              (size)  Mode  Cnt     Score    Error  Units
>> ArraysHashCode.bytes        1  avgt    5     3.213 ±  0.207  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.bytes       10  avgt    5     8.483 ±  0.040  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.bytes      100  avgt    5    90.315 ±  0.655  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.bytes    10000  avgt    5  9422.094 ± 62.402  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.chars        1  avgt    5     3.040 ±  0.066  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.chars       10  avgt    5     8.497 ±  0.074  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.chars      100  avgt    5    90.074 ±  0.387  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.chars    10000  avgt    5  9420.474 ± 41.619  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.ints         1  avgt    5     2.827 ±  0.019  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.ints        10  avgt    5     7.727 ±  0.043  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.ints       100  avgt    5    89.405 ±  0.593  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.ints     10000  avgt    5  9426.539 ± 51.308  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.shorts       1  avgt    5     3.071 ±  0.062  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.shorts      10  avgt    5     8.168 ±  0.049  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.shorts     100  avgt    5    90.399 ±  0.292  ns/op
>> ArraysHashCode.shorts   10000  avgt    5  9420.171 ± 44.474  ns/op
>> 
>> 
>> As we can see the `Arrays` intrinsics are faster for small inputs, and faster on large inputs for `char` and `int` (the ones currently vectorized). I aim to fix `byte` and `short` cases before integrating, though it might be acceptable to hand that off as follow-up enhancements to not further delay integration of this enhancement.
>
> I did a quick write up explaining the approach at https://gist.github.com/luhenry/2fc408be6f906ef79aaf4115525b9d0c. Also, you can find details in @richardstartin's [blog post](https://richardstartin.github.io/posts/vectorised-polynomial-hash-codes)

I've restored the 2-stride dependency-chain breaking implementation that got lost in translation when me and @luhenry took turns on this. This helps keep things fast in the 1-31 size range, and allows for a decent speed-up on `byte[]` and `short[]` cases until we can figure out how to vectorize those properly.

@luhenry baseline:

Benchmark                               (size)  Mode  Cnt     Score   Error  Units
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1       0  avgt    5     0.786 ± 0.005  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1       1  avgt    5     1.068 ± 0.005  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1       2  avgt    5     2.513 ± 0.017  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1      31  avgt    5    22.837 ± 0.082  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1      32  avgt    5    16.622 ± 0.107  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1   10000  avgt    5  1193.884 ± 1.862  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultUTF16        0  avgt    5     0.786 ± 0.002  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultUTF16        1  avgt    5     1.884 ± 0.002  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultUTF16        2  avgt    5     2.512 ± 0.011  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultUTF16       31  avgt    5    23.061 ± 0.119  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultUTF16       32  avgt    5    16.429 ± 0.044  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultUTF16    10000  avgt    5  1191.283 ± 4.600  ns/op

Patch:

Benchmark                               (size)  Mode  Cnt     Score   Error  Units
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1       0  avgt    5     0.787 ± 0.004  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1       1  avgt    5     1.050 ± 0.009  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1       2  avgt    5     2.198 ± 0.010  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1      31  avgt    5    18.413 ± 0.516  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1      32  avgt    5    16.599 ± 0.074  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultLatin1   10000  avgt    5  1189.958 ± 8.420  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultUTF16        0  avgt    5     0.785 ± 0.002  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultUTF16        1  avgt    5     1.885 ± 0.006  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultUTF16        2  avgt    5     2.219 ± 0.146  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultUTF16       31  avgt    5    19.052 ± 1.203  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultUTF16       32  avgt    5    16.558 ± 0.107  ns/op
StringHashCode.Algorithm.defaultUTF16    10000  avgt    5  1188.122 ± 9.394  ns/op


The switches @luhenry added to help the 0 and 1 cases marginally help the by allowing the compilation to do early returns in these cases, avoiding jumping around as would be necessary in the inlined intrinsic. It allowed me to simplify the previous attempt at a 2-element stride routine, while ensuring the routine is correct even if we'd call it directly without the switch preamble.

I think this is ready for a final review now.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10847


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