RFR: 8319577: x86_64 AVX2 intrinsics for Arrays.sort methods (int, float arrays) [v2]

[Srinivas Vamsi Parasa]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:04:55 GMT, Sandhya Viswanathan <sviswanathan at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Srinivas Vamsi Parasa has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 11 additional commits since the last revision:
>> 
>>  - Disable AVX2 sort for 64-bit types
>>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk into simdsort
>>  - fix jcheck failures due to windows encoding
>>  - fix carriage return and change insertion sort thresholds
>>  - fix formatting and white spaces
>>  - cleanup unused code
>>  - fix insertion sort thresholds
>>  - add insertion sort
>>  - fix headers
>>  - revert to xss-common-qsort
>>  - ... and 1 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/36991c25...08307b6a
>
> src/hotspot/share/opto/library_call.cpp line 5391:
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>> 5389:     BasicType bt = elem_type->basic_type();
>> 5390:     // Disable the intrinsic for 64-bit types with AVX2
>> 5391:     if ((bt == T_LONG || bt == T_DOUBLE) && UseAVX == 2) {
> 
> UseAVX is platform specific and cannot be used in library_call.cpp.

Thanks Sandhya, will fix this issue.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16534#discussion_r1406924860