RFR: 8366444: Add support for add/mul reduction operations for Float16
Bhavana Kilambi
bkilambi at openjdk.org
Fri Sep 26 12:11:59 UTC 2025
This patch adds mid-end support for vectorized add/mul reduction operations for half floats. It also includes backend aarch64 support for these operations. Only vectorization support through autovectorization is added as VectorAPI currently does not support Float16 vector species.
Both add and mul reduction vectorized through autovectorization mandate the implementation to be strictly ordered. The following is how each of these reductions is implemented for different aarch64 targets -
**For AddReduction :**
On Neon only targets (UseSVE = 0): Generates scalarized additions using the scalar `fadd` instruction for both 8B and 16B vector lengths. This is because Neon does not provide a direct instruction for computing strictly ordered floating point add reduction.
On SVE targets (UseSVE > 0): Generates the `fadda` instruction which computes add reduction for floating point in strict order.
**For MulReduction :**
Both Neon and SVE do not provide a direct instruction for computing strictly ordered floating point multiply reduction. For vector lengths of 8B and 16B, a scalarized sequence of scalar `fmul` instructions is generated and multiply reduction for vector lengths > 16B is not supported.
Below is the performance of the two newly added microbenchmarks in `Float16OperationsBenchmark.java` tested on three different aarch64 machines and with varying `MaxVectorSize` -
Note: On all machines, the score (ops/ms) is compared with the master branch without this patch which generates a sequence of loads (`ldrsh`) to load the FP16 value into an FPR and a scalar `fadd/fmul` to add/multiply the loaded value to the running sum/product. The ratios given below are the ratios between the throughput with this patch and the throughput without this patch.
Ratio > 1 indicates the performance with this patch is better than the master branch.
**N1 (UseSVE = 0, max vector length = 16B):**
Benchmark vectorDim Mode Cnt 8B 16B
ReductionAddFP16 256 thrpt 9 1.41 1.40
ReductionAddFP16 512 thrpt 9 1.41 1.41
ReductionAddFP16 1024 thrpt 9 1.43 1.40
ReductionAddFP16 2048 thrpt 9 1.43 1.40
ReductionMulFP16 256 thrpt 9 1.22 1.22
ReductionMulFP16 512 thrpt 9 1.21 1.23
ReductionMulFP16 1024 thrpt 9 1.21 1.22
ReductionMulFP16 2048 thrpt 9 1.20 1.22
On N1, the scalarized sequence of `fadd/fmul` are generated for both `MaxVectorSize` of 8B and 16B for add reduction and mul reduction respectively.
**V1 (UseSVE = 1, max vector length = 32B):**
Benchmark vectorDim Mode Cnt 8B 16B 32B
ReductionAddFP16 256 thrpt 9 1.11 1.75 2.02
ReductionAddFP16 512 thrpt 9 1.02 1.64 1.93
ReductionAddFP16 1024 thrpt 9 1.02 1.59 1.85
ReductionAddFP16 2048 thrpt 9 1.02 1.56 1.80
ReductionMulFP16 256 thrpt 9 1.12 0.99 1.09
ReductionMulFP16 512 thrpt 9 1.04 1.01 1.04
ReductionMulFP16 1024 thrpt 9 1.02 1.02 1.00
ReductionMulFP16 2048 thrpt 9 1.01 1.01 1.00
On V1, for MaxVectorSize = 8: scalarized `fadd/fmul` sequence will be generated for `AddReductionVHF/MulReductionVHF` as UseSVE defaults to 0 [2].
For MaxVectorSize = 16: scalarized `fmul` sequence is generated for `MulReductionVHF` and `fadda` is generated for `AddReductionVHF` which fetches signficant gains.
For MaxVectorSize = 32: Autovectorization of `MulReductionVHF` is disabled for MaxVectorSize > 16B so the autovectorizer checks for maximal implemented size[1] which is 16B and generates scalarized `fmul` sequence for 16B in this case. For `AddReductionVHF`, it generates the `fadda` instruction.
**V2 (UseSVE = 2, max vector length = 16B)**
Benchmark vectorDim Mode Cnt 8B 16B
ReductionAddFP16 256 thrpt 9 1.16 1.70
ReductionAddFP16 512 thrpt 9 1.02 1.61
ReductionAddFP16 1024 thrpt 9 1.01 1.53
ReductionAddFP16 2048 thrpt 9 1.00 1.49
ReductionMulFP16 256 thrpt 9 1.18 0.99
ReductionMulFP16 512 thrpt 9 1.04 1.01
ReductionMulFP16 1024 thrpt 9 1.02 1.02
ReductionMulFP16 2048 thrpt 9 1.01 1.01
On V2, for MaxVectorSize = 8: scalarized `fadd/fmul` sequence will be generated as UseSVE defaults to 0 [2].
For MaxVectorSize = 16: `fadda` instruction is generated for `AddReductionVHF` which results in significant gains in performance. For `MulReductionVHF`, the scalarized `fmul` sequence will be generated.
**Testing:**
hotspot_all, jdk(tiers1-3) and langtools(tier1) all pass on N1/V1/V2.
[1] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/a272696813f2e5e896ac9de9985246aaeb9d476c/src/hotspot/share/opto/superword.cpp#L1677
[2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/a272696813f2e5e896ac9de9985246aaeb9d476c/src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/vm_version_aarch64.cpp#L479
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Commit messages:
- 8366444: Add support for add/mul reduction operations for Float16
Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27526/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27526&range=00
Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8366444
Stats: 500 lines in 12 files changed: 421 ins; 2 del; 77 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27526.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/27526/head:pull/27526
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27526
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