RFR: 8325991: Accelerate Poly1305 on x86_64 using AVX2 instructions [v4]

[Sandhya Viswanathan]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 05:40:13 GMT, Srinivas Vamsi Parasa <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The goal of this PR is to accelerate the Poly1305 algorithm using AVX2 instructions (including IFMA) for x86_64 CPUs.
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>> This implementation is directly based on the AVX2 Poly1305 hash computation as implemented in Intel(R) Multi-Buffer Crypto for IPsec Library (url: https://github.com/intel/intel-ipsec-mb/blob/main/lib/avx2_t3/poly_fma_avx2.asm)
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> Srinivas Vamsi Parasa has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   remove unused uniions and fix uses_vl

You will also need to update the test/lib-test/jdk/test/whitebox/CPUInfoTest.java to handle avx_ifma.
Rest of the PR looks good to me.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17881#issuecomment-1960540531