RFR: 8289186: Support predicated vector load/store operations over X86 AVX2 targets. [v3]

[Jatin Bhateja]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2022 02:19:14 GMT, Xiaohong Gong <xgong at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Jatin Bhateja has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>> 
>>   8289186: Review comments resolved.
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> test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/jdk/incubator/vector/LoadMaskedIOOBEBenchmark.java line 98:
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>> 96:         for (int i = 0; i < inSize; i += bspecies.length()) {
>> 97:             VectorMask<Byte> mask = VectorMask.fromArray(bspecies, m, i);
>> 98:             ByteVector.fromArray(bspecies, byteIn, i, mask).intoArray(byteOut, i, mask);
> 
> Could you please add new benchmarks for masked `store` ?

Done.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9324