Integrated: 8348868: AArch64: Add backend support for SelectFromTwoVector

Bhavana Kilambi bkilambi at openjdk.org
Fri Aug 1 13:14:11 UTC 2025


On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:20:54 GMT, Bhavana Kilambi <bkilambi at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This patch adds aarch64 backend support for SelectFromTwoVector operation which was recently introduced in VectorAPI.
> 
> It implements this operation using a two table vector lookup instruction - "tbl" which is available only in Neon and SVE2.
> 
> For 128-bit vector length : Neon tbl instruction is generated if UseSVE < 2 and SVE2 "tbl" instruction is generated if UseSVE == 2.
> 
> For > 128-bit vector length : Currently there are no machines which have vector length > 128-bit and support SVE2. For all those machines with vector length > 128-bit and UseSVE < 2, this operation is not supported. The inline expander for this operation would fail and lowered IR will be generated which is a mix of two rearrange and one blend operation.
> 
> This patch also adds a boolean "need_load_shuffle" in the inline expander for this operation to test if the platform requires VectorLoadShuffle operation to be generated. Without this, the lowering IR was not being generated on aarch64 and the performance was quite poor.
> 
> Performance numbers with this patch on a 128-bit, SVE2 supporting machine is shown below -
> 
> 
> Benchmark                                      (size)   Mode    Cnt     Gain
> SelectFromBenchmark.selectFromByteVector        1024    thrpt   9       1.43
> SelectFromBenchmark.selectFromByteVector        2048    thrpt   9       1.48
> SelectFromBenchmark.selectFromDoubleVector      1024    thrpt   9       68.55
> SelectFromBenchmark.selectFromDoubleVector      2048    thrpt   9       72.07
> SelectFromBenchmark.selectFromFloatVector       1024    thrpt   9       1.69
> SelectFromBenchmark.selectFromFloatVector       2048    thrpt   9       1.52
> SelectFromBenchmark.selectFromIntVector         1024    thrpt   9       1.50
> SelectFromBenchmark.selectFromIntVector         2048    thrpt   9       1.52
> SelectFromBenchmark.selectFromLongVector        1024    thrpt   9       85.38
> SelectFromBenchmark.selectFromLongVector        2048    thrpt   9       80.93
> SelectFromBenchmark.selectFromShortVector       1024    thrpt   9       1.48
> SelectFromBenchmark.selectFromShortVector       2048    thrpt   9       1.49
> 
> 
> Gain column refers to the ratio of thrpt between this patch and the master branch after applying changes in the inline expander.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 2ba8a06f
Author:    Bhavana Kilambi <bkilambi at openjdk.org>
Committer: Jatin Bhateja <jbhateja at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/2ba8a06f0c0a598a6ca7f74e75bab4208e6fa689
Stats:     973 lines in 13 files changed: 947 ins; 0 del; 26 mod

8348868: AArch64: Add backend support for SelectFromTwoVector

Co-authored-by: Jatin Bhateja <jbhateja at openjdk.org>
Reviewed-by: haosun, aph, sviswanathan, xgong

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23570


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