RFR: 8366427: C2 SuperWord: refactor VTransform scalar nodes

[Emanuel Peter]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:49:46 GMT, Emanuel Peter <epeter at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I'm working on cost-modeling, and am integrating some smaller changes from this proof-of-concept PR:
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/20964
> 
> This is a pure refactoring - no change in behaviour. I'm presenting it like this because it will make reviews easier.
> 
> The goal is to split up some cases that are currently treated the same, but will alter have different behavior. There may be a little bit of code duplication, but the code will soon be made different ;)
> 
> We split the `VTransformScalarNode`:
> - `VTransformMemopScalarNode`
>   - Uses that only wanted scalar mem nodes can now directly check for `isa_MemopScalar`.
>   - We can directly store the `_vpointer` in a field, that way we don't need to do a lookup via `vloop_analyzer`. This could also be helpful later on if we ever do widening (unrolling during auto vectorization): we could then do the necessary modifications to the `vpointer`.
> - `VTransformLoopPhiNode`
>   - Later on, they will play a more special role, they will give us easy access to the beginning state of the loop body and the backedges.
> - `VTransformCFGNode`
>   - Calling them scalar nodes is not 100% accurate. We'll probably have to further refine them later on. But splitting them off now seems like a reasonable choice. Once we do if-conversion we'll have to do more work on CFG.
> - `VTransformDataScalarNode`
>   - These represent all the normal "calculation" nodes in the loop.
> - `VTransformInputScalarNode` -> `VTransformOuterNode`:
>   - For now, we are still just tracking input nodes, but soon we will need to track input and output nodes: basically just the 1-hop neighbourhood of nodes outside the loop. I'm already renaming them now, so it will be less noise later.
> 
> I decided to rather split up more, and avoid the `VTransformScalarNode` together, avoiding having to override overrides - that can be really confusing (e.g. what I had with `is_load_in_loop`).

@vnkozlov Thanks for reviewing! I responded to all your comments :)

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27002#issuecomment-3237413742