RFR: 8296168: x86: Add reasonable constraints between AVX and SSE

Claes Redestad redestad at openjdk.org
Wed Nov 2 12:51:57 UTC 2022


We've not seen any x86 CPU, Intel or otherwise, where AVX features are available but SSE 4.1 is not supported. This patch suggests constraining setup so that any explicit value of UseSSE less than 4 (the default on any AVX-supporting CPU) implicitly disables AVX. This simplifies ergonomics and reduces the testing surface. Concretely this would allow #10847 to not have to guard the new intrinsic on UseSSE level to avoid some surprising test failures in tests verifying SSE-enabled intrinsics.

I've rearranged the initialization of UseAVX and UseSSE to allow AVX to look at the post-ergo values of UseSSE.

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Commit messages:
 - Constrain AVX to require SSE 4

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10946/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=10946&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8296168
  Stats: 64 lines in 1 file changed: 34 ins; 27 del; 3 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10946.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/10946/head:pull/10946

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10946


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