RFR: 8264054: Bad XMM performance on java.lang.MathBench.sqrtDouble [v3]

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:39:45 GMT, Sandhya Viswanathan <sviswanathan at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> For the j.l.Math JMH at https://github.com/openjdk/jmh-jdk-microbenchmarks/blob/master/micros-jdk11/src/main/java/org/openjdk/bench/java/lang/MathBench.java, the performance for sqrt benchmark could be improved.  Thanks a lot to Eric Caspole for finding this issue.
>> 
>> Benchmark:
>>     @Benchmark
>>     public double  sqrtDouble() {
>>         return  Math.sqrt(double4Dot1);
>>     }
>> 
>> Current code generated (linux format) by c2 JIT is:
>>      vsqrtsd 0x50(%r10),%xmm0,%xmm0
>> 
>> The vsqrtsd instruction operation is specified as below: 
>>      VSQRTSD (VEX.128 encoded version)
>>      DEST[63:0] := SQRT(SRC2[63:0])
>>      DEST[127:64] := SRC1[127:64]
>>      DEST[MAXVL-1:128] := 0
>> 
>> The upper 127:64 bits are set from previous contents of xmm0. As the destination xmm0 register was not initialized prior to use by c2 JIT, this causes stall and lower performance.
>> 
>> By adding xmm0 initialization prior to use, the performance of the above benchmark improves significantly.
>> 
>> Code generated after patch:
>>      vxorpd %xmm0,%xmm0,%xmm0
>>      vsqrtsd 0x50(%r10),%xmm0,%xmm0
>> 
>> Performance before patch:
>> Benchmark                    Mode  Cnt       Score      Error   Units
>> MathBench.sqrtDouble        thrpt    8  193612.396 ±  95.807  ops/ms
>> 
>> Performance after patch:
>> MathBench.sqrtDouble        thrpt    8  276388.024 ± 846.372  ops/ms
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Sandhya
>
> Sandhya Viswanathan has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Correct permissions on StrictMathBench.java

Nice solution - let C2 generate the best value loading instruction. I assume the improvement is the same with this update.

Thank you for checking other instructions.

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Marked as reviewed by kvn (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3256