RFR: 8257436: [aarch64] Regressions in ArrayCopyUnalignedDst.testByte/testChar for 65-78 bytes when UseSIMDForMemoryOps is on [v4]

[Volker Simonis]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 14:05:35 GMT, Evgeny Astigeevich <github.com+42899633+eastig at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Copying data in range 65 - 80 bytes with
>> ldpq
>> ldpq 
>> ldp
>> stpq
>> stpq
>> stp
>> is faster than with
>> ldpq
>> ldpq
>> ldpq
>> stpq
>> stpq
>> stpq
>> when pointers involved are not properly aligned. This mostly affects byte and char arraycopy. 
>> This patch fixes regressions of ArrayCopyUnalignedDst.testByte/testChar when UseSIMDForMemoryOps is on.
>> See the attached results for performance data
>> [test_byte_results.txt](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/files/5629676/test_byte_results.txt)
>> [test_char_results.txt](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/files/5629673/test_char_results.txt)
>
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>   8257436: [aarch64] Regressions in ArrayCopyUnalignedDst.testByte/testChar for 65-78 bytes when UseSIMDForMemoryOps is on
>   
>   On Graviton 2 ArrayCopyUnaligned of data range 65 - 78 bytes with
>   the sequence of 'ldpq,ldpq,ldp,stpq,stpq,stp' is faster than with
>   the sequence of 'ldpq,ldpq,ldpq,stpq,stpq,stpq'.

Looks good now. Thanks!

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Marked as reviewed by simonis (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1558