RFR: 8326962: C2 SuperWord: cache VPointer [v6]

[Christian Hagedorn]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 07:17:34 GMT, Emanuel Peter <epeter at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is a subtask of [JDK-8315361](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8315361).
>> 
>> Parsing `VPointer` currently happens all over SuperWord. And often in quadratic loops, where we compare all-with-all loads/stores.
>> 
>> I propose to cache the `VPointer`s, then we can do a constant-time cache lookup rather than parsing the pointer subgraph every time.
>> 
>> There are now only a few cases where we cannot use the cached `VPointer`:
>> - `SuperWord::unrolling_analysis`: we have no `VLoopAnalyzer`, and so no submodules like `VLoopPointers`. We don't need to cache, since we only iterate over the loop body once, and create only a single `VPointer` per memop.
>> - `SuperWord::output`: when we have a `Load`, and try to bypass `StoreVector` nodes. The `StoreVector` nodes are new, and so we have no cached `VPointer` for them. This could be fixed somehow, but I don't want to deal with it now. I intend to refactor `SuperWord::output` soon, and can look into options at that point (either I bypass before we insert the vector nodes, or I remember what scalar memop the vector was created from, and then get the cached pointer this way).
>> 
>> This changeset is also a preparation step for [JDK-8325155](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8325155). I will have a list of pointers, and sort them such that creating adjacent refs is much more efficient.
>> 
>> **Benchmarking SuperWord Compile Time**
>> 
>> I use the same benchmark from https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/18532.
>> 
>> On master:
>> 
>>     C2 Compile Time:       56.816 s
>>          IdealLoop:            56.604 s
>>            AutoVectorize:      56.192 s
>> 
>> 
>> With this patch:
>> 
>>     C2 Compile Time:       49.719 s
>>          IdealLoop:            49.509 s
>>            AutoVectorize:      49.106 s
>> 
>> 
>> This saves us about `7 sec`, which is significant. I will have to see what it effect it has once we also apply https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/18532, but I think the combined effect will be very significant.
>
> Emanuel Peter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   split up _vpointers.compute_vpointers

Thanks for making the suggested changes. Looks good to me!

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Marked as reviewed by chagedorn (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18577#pullrequestreview-1975779931