RFR: 8348659: AArch64: IR rule failure with compiler/loopopts/superword/TestSplitPacks.java

[duke]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:19:27 GMT, Bhavana Kilambi <bkilambi at openjdk.org> wrote:

> "test5a" in this file fails on Graviton3 (32B, SVE) as the compiler fails to match IR rules for vector size 2. This is because the minimum vector size for aarch64 machines is 8B and it does not support generation of vectors of 2 short values.
> 
> Modified the IR rules to have two separate rules - one for sse4.1 and another for sve.
> 
> The test now passes on Graviton3.

@Bhavana-Kilambi 
Your change (at version 486df1f6df17e1320a436bcf3cc8221b3a05c7d9) is now ready to be sponsored by a Committer.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23385#issuecomment-2636050130