RFR: 8307351: (CmpI/L(AndI/L reg1 reg2)) on x86 can be optimized

Tobias Hotz duke at openjdk.org
Wed May 3 14:58:22 UTC 2023


This patch aims to optimize a case where a And-Node followed by a Cmp-Node would not be converted into a single "test" instruction. The Architecture Description file currently only handles the cases where the right operand of the And-Node is a constant, but not if both are a register.
Before this patch, a "and" followed by a "test" would be emitted, so the removed "and" means 2 bytes less have to be emitted.
I've attached a JMH Benchmark to demonstrate the performance improvements. Here are the numbers of my Windows 11 machine:
Before:

Benchmark                                                   Mode  Cnt   Score   Error  Units
AndCmpTestInstruction.benchmarkOpaqueAndCmpEqualsInt        avgt    8  26,736 ± 0,131  ns/op
AndCmpTestInstruction.benchmarkOpaqueAndCmpEqualsLong       avgt    8  24,305 ± 0,610  ns/op
AndCmpTestInstruction.benchmarkStaticAndCmpEqualsInt        avgt    8  33,052 ± 0,056  ns/op
AndCmpTestInstruction.benchmarkStaticLargeAndCmpEqualsLong  avgt    8  18,355 ± 0,030  ns/op
AndCmpTestInstruction.benchmarkStaticSmallAndCmpEqualsLong  avgt    8  25,587 ± 0,107  ns/op

After:

Benchmark                                                   Mode  Cnt   Score   Error  Units  Improvement
AndCmpTestInstruction.benchmarkOpaqueAndCmpEqualsInt        avgt    8  22,665 ± 0,170  ns/op  (~18%)
AndCmpTestInstruction.benchmarkOpaqueAndCmpEqualsLong       avgt    8  18,880 ± 0,123  ns/op  (~29%)
AndCmpTestInstruction.benchmarkStaticAndCmpEqualsInt        avgt    8  33,198 ± 0,126  ns/op  (unchanged)
AndCmpTestInstruction.benchmarkStaticLargeAndCmpEqualsLong  avgt    8  18,427 ± 0,079  ns/op  (unchanged)
AndCmpTestInstruction.benchmarkStaticSmallAndCmpEqualsLong  avgt    8  25,641 ± 0,168  ns/op  (unchanged)

As you can see, the cases with a small static mask have not improved as they have already been covered by another match rule. The test with the large static mask (benchmarkStaticLargeAndCmpEqualsLong) has a sorted instruction sequence as the value is moved to a register and it is not being used directly in the instruction, but there is no measurable performance uplift here.
I've tested my changes using the Tier1 jtreg Tests on Windows.

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Commit messages:
 - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into ImproveAndTestMatching
 - Convert line ending from CRLF to LF
 - Add new matching rule to match CMP(AND) to test on x86

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13587/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=13587&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8307351
  Stats: 125 lines in 2 files changed: 125 ins; 0 del; 0 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13587.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/13587/head:pull/13587

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13587


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