RFR: 8332163: C2 SuperWord: refactor PacksetGraph and SuperWord::output into VTransformGraph

[Emanuel Peter]

On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 11:24:16 GMT, Christian Hagedorn <chagedorn at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The original PR was [here](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/19261), it got too chaotic.
>> 
>> I added some extra tests for this in: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/19558
>> I extracted some refactorings to: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/19573
>> 
>> We used to have:
>> - `PacksetGraph`: this detects cycles introduces by packs, and schedules/reorders the memops.
>> - `SuperWord::apply_vectorization`: creates `VectorNodes` directly from the `PackSet`.
>> 
>> In my blog, I have published lots of ideas for SuperWord / AutoVectorization improvements:
>> https://eme64.github.io/blog/2023/11/03/C2-AutoVectorizer-Improvement-Ideas.html
>> 
>> Many ideas are based on the "VectorTransform IR": cost-model, if-conversion, direct widening of scalars to vectors, additional optimizations/features with shuffle/pack/extract, handling more reduction patterns, etc.
>> 
>> I now decided to name it `VTransform`, which is essencially a graph `VtransformGraph` of nodes `VTransformNodes` that resemble the C2 Node on purpose, because the `VTransform` models the C2 graph after vectorization. We can now model the transformation from scalar-loop to vectorized-loop without modifying the C2 graph yet.
>> 
>> The new code has these steps:
>> - Given the `PackSet` from `SuperWord`, we create a `VTransformGraph` with `SuperWordVTransformBuilder`.
>> - [Not yet: all sorts of optimizations / checks on the `VTransformGraph`, in future RFE's]
>> - We then schedule the `VTransformGraph`, and check for cycles.
>> - Once we are ready to commit to vectorization, we call `VTransformGraph::apply_vectorization` which lets each individual `VTransformNode::apply` generate the new vectorized C2 nodes.
>> 
>> **Testing**
>> 
>> Regression testing passed.
>> 
>> Performance testing: no significant change in performance (as expected).
>
> Nice refactoring. It was a little bit difficult to review. But I think it overall looks good. 
> 
> Here are some comments about a first pass. Feel free to also do some of the suggestions separately if you agree with them since the PR is already quite big.

@chhagedorn thank you for the many suggestions, I will look into them now :)

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19719#issuecomment-2203061160