RFR: JDK-8320448 Accelerate IndexOf using AVX2 [v7]

[Jatin Bhateja]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 23:06:32 GMT, Scott Gibbons <sgibbons at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Re-write the IndexOf code without the use of the pcmpestri instruction, only using AVX2 instructions.  This change accelerates String.IndexOf on average 1.3x for AVX2.  The benchmark numbers:
>> 
>> 
>> Benchmark	                                               Score		Latest		
>> StringIndexOf.advancedWithMediumSub   343.573		317.934		0.925375393x
>> StringIndexOf.advancedWithShortSub1	  1039.081		1053.96		1.014319384x
>> StringIndexOf.advancedWithShortSub2	      55.828		110.541		1.980027943x
>> StringIndexOf.constantPattern	                9.361		11.906		1.271872663x
>> StringIndexOf.searchCharLongSuccess	        4.216		4.218		1.000474383x
>> StringIndexOf.searchCharMediumSuccess	3.133		3.216		1.02649218x
>> StringIndexOf.searchCharShortSuccess	3.76		        3.761		1.000265957x
>> StringIndexOf.success	                                9.186		9.713		1.057369911x
>> StringIndexOf.successBig	                      14.341		46.343		3.231504079x
>> StringIndexOfChar.latin1_AVX2_String	  6220.918		12154.52		1.953814533x
>> StringIndexOfChar.latin1_AVX2_char	  5503.556		5540.044		1.006629895x
>> StringIndexOfChar.latin1_SSE4_String	  6978.854		6818.689		0.977049957x
>> StringIndexOfChar.latin1_SSE4_char	  5657.499		5474.624		0.967675646x
>> StringIndexOfChar.latin1_Short_String	  7132.541		6863.359		0.962260014x
>> StringIndexOfChar.latin1_Short_char	16013.389	      16162.437		1.009307711x
>> StringIndexOfChar.latin1_mixed_String	  7386.123	      14771.622		1.999915517x
>> StringIndexOfChar.latin1_mixed_char	  9901.671		9782.245		0.987938803
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> Scott Gibbons has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 22 commits:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'openjdk:master' into indexof
>  - Merge branch 'openjdk:master' into indexof
>  - Addressing review comments.
>  - Fix for JDK-8321599
>  - Support UU IndexOf
>  - Only use optimization when EnableX86ECoreOpts is true
>  - Fix whitespace
>  - Merge branch 'openjdk:master' into indexof
>  - Comments; added exhaustive-ish test
>  - Subtracting 0x10 twice.
>  - ... and 12 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/8e12053e...3e58d0c2

src/hotspot/cpu/x86/stubGenerator_x86_64_string.cpp line 505:

> 503:     __ cmpb(Address(rbx, r15, Address::times_1, -0xa), rax);
> 504:     __ jne(L_top_loop_1);
> 505:     __ jmp(L_0x406019);

Instead of having special handling for each tail size (3 - 31 bytes), can we directly use 32 bytes VMASKMOVPS with appropriate mask for different tail sizes and only residual part (0 - 3 bytes) can fall over to scalar tail.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16753#discussion_r1461424231