RFR: 8366444: Add support for add/mul reduction operations for Float16 [v4]

[Jatin Bhateja]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:28:45 GMT, Bhavana Kilambi <bkilambi at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This patch adds mid-end support for vectorized add/mul reduction operations for half floats. It also includes backend aarch64 support for these operations. Only vectorization support through autovectorization is added as VectorAPI currently does not support Float16 vector species.
>> 
>> Both add and mul reduction vectorized through autovectorization mandate the implementation to be strictly ordered. The following is how each of these reductions is implemented for different aarch64 targets -
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>> **For AddReduction :**
>> On Neon only targets (UseSVE = 0): Generates scalarized additions using the scalar `fadd` instruction for both 8B and 16B vector lengths. This is because Neon does not provide a direct instruction for computing strictly ordered floating point add reduction.
>> 
>> On SVE targets (UseSVE > 0): Generates the `fadda` instruction which computes add reduction for floating point in strict order.
>> 
>> **For MulReduction :**
>> Both Neon and SVE do not provide a direct instruction for computing strictly ordered floating point multiply reduction. For vector lengths of 8B and 16B, a scalarized sequence of scalar `fmul` instructions is generated and multiply reduction for vector lengths > 16B is not supported.
>> 
>> Below is the performance of the two newly added microbenchmarks in `Float16OperationsBenchmark.java` tested on three different aarch64 machines and with varying `MaxVectorSize` -
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>> Note: On all machines, the score (ops/ms) is compared with the master branch without this patch which generates a sequence of loads (`ldrsh`) to load the FP16 value into an FPR and a scalar `fadd/fmul` to add/multiply the loaded value to the running sum/product. The ratios given below are the ratios between the throughput with this patch and the throughput without this patch.
>> Ratio > 1 indicates the performance with this patch is better than the master branch.
>> 
>> **N1 (UseSVE = 0, max vector length = 16B):**
>> 
>> Benchmark         vectorDim  Mode   Cnt  8B     16B
>> ReductionAddFP16  256        thrpt  9    1.41   1.40
>> ReductionAddFP16  512        thrpt  9    1.41   1.41
>> ReductionAddFP16  1024       thrpt  9    1.43   1.40
>> ReductionAddFP16  2048       thrpt  9    1.43   1.40
>> ReductionMulFP16  256        thrpt  9    1.22   1.22
>> ReductionMulFP16  512        thrpt  9    1.21   1.23
>> ReductionMulFP16  1024       thrpt  9    1.21   1.22
>> ReductionMulFP16  2048       thrpt  9    1.20   1.22
>> 
>> 
>> On N1, the scalarized sequence of `fadd/fmul` are gener...
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> Bhavana Kilambi has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Address review comments

Common IR changes looks good to me, adding some minor comments.

test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/vectorization/TestFloat16VectorOperations.java line 81:

> 79:         if(!expected_fp16.equals(actual_fp16)) {
> 80:             throw new AssertionError("Result Mismatch!, reduction type = " + reductionFunc + " actual = " + actual_fp16 +  " expected = " + expected_fp16);
> 81:         }

Please use Verify.checkEQ, Float16 support has been added to [Verifier](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/28095) recently

test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/jdk/incubator/vector/Float16OperationsBenchmark.java line 323:

> 321:        short result = (short) 0;
> 322:        for (int i = 0; i < vectorDim; i++) {
> 323:            result = float16ToRawShortBits(Float16.add(Float16.shortBitsToFloat16(result), Float16.shortBitsToFloat16(vector1[i])));

Float16 class is statically imported, we don't need fully qualified names here.
Suggestion:

           result = float16ToRawShortBits(Float16.add(shortBitsToFloat16(result), shortBitsToFloat16(vector1[i])));

test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/jdk/incubator/vector/Float16OperationsBenchmark.java line 332:

> 330:        short result = floatToFloat16(1.0f);
> 331:        for (int i = 0; i < vectorDim; i++) {
> 332:            result = float16ToRawShortBits(Float16.multiply(Float16.shortBitsToFloat16(result), Float16.shortBitsToFloat16(vector1[i])));

Suggestion:

           result = float16ToRawShortBits(Float16.multiply(shortBitsToFloat16(result), shortBitsToFloat16(vector1[i])));

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27526#pullrequestreview-3610393442
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27526#discussion_r2645201339
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27526#discussion_r2645214816
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27526#discussion_r2645216202