Integrated: 8307795: AArch64: Optimize VectorMask.truecount() on Neon

[Chang Peng]

On Mon, 15 May 2023 02:58:46 GMT, Chang Peng <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> In Vector API Java level, vector mask is represented as a boolean array with 0x00/0x01 (8 bits of each element) as values, aka in-memory format. When it is loaded into vector register, e.g. Neon, the in-memory format will be converted to in-register format with 0/-1 value for each lane (lane width aligned to its type) by VectorLoadMask [1] operation, and convert back to in-memory format by VectorStoreMask[2]. In Neon, a typical VectorStoreMask operation will first narrow given vector registers by xtn insn [3] into byte element type, and then do a vector negate to convert to 0x00/0x01 value for each element.
> 
> For most of the vector mask operations, the input mask is in-register format. And a vector mask also works in-register format all through the compilation. But for some operations like VectorMask.trueCount()[4] which counts the elements of true value, the expected input mask is in-memory format. So a VectorStoreMask is generated to convert the mask from in-register format to in-memory format before those operations.
> 
> However, for trueCount() these xtn instructions in VectorStoreMask can be saved, since the narrowing operations will not influence the number of active lane (value of 0x01) of its input.
> 
> This patch adds an optimized rule `VectorMaskTrueCount (VectorStoreMask mask)` to save the unnecessary narrowing operations.
> 
> For example,
> 
> 
> var m = VectorMask.fromArray(IntVector.SPECIES_PREFERRED, ba, 0);
> m.not().trueCount();
> 
> 
> will produce following assembly on a Neon machine before this patch:
> 
> 
> ...
> mvn     v16.16b, v16.16b           // VectorMask.not()
> xtn     v16.4h, v16.4s
> xtn     v16.8b, v16.8h
> neg     v16.8b, v16.8b             // VectorStoreMask
> addv    b17, v16.8b
> umov    w0, v17.b[0]               // VectorMask.trueCount()
> ...
> 
> After this patch:
> 
> 
> ...
> mvn     v16.16b, v16.16b           // VectorMask.not()
> addv    s17, v16.4s
> smov    x0, v17.b[0]
> neg     x0, x0                     // Optimized VectorMask.trueCount()
> ...
> 
> 
> In this case, we can save two xtn insns.
> 
> Performance:
> 
> Benchmark     Before               After                          Unit
> testInt           723.822 ± 1.029  1182.375 ± 12.363    ops/ms
> testLong       632.154 ± 0.197  1382.74 ± 2.188        ops/ms
> testShort      788.665 ± 1.852   1152.38 ± 3.77         ops/ms
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/e1e758a7b43c29840296d337bd2f0213ab0ca3c9/src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/aarch64_vector.ad#L4740
> [2]: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blo...

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: f600d036
Author:    changpeng1997 <Chang.Peng at arm.com>
Committer: Eric Liu <eliu at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/f600d0369a1f9ac78e62a328be4bbb598ffef62b
Stats:     235 lines in 5 files changed: 235 ins; 0 del; 0 mod

8307795: AArch64: Optimize VectorMask.truecount() on Neon

Reviewed-by: aph, eliu

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13974