[8u] RFR (M) 8181809 PPC64: Leverage mtfprd/mffprd on POWER8
Matthew Brandyberry
mbrandy at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Sep 28 17:53:23 UTC 2017
Hi,
Please review this backport of 8181809 for jdk8u.
It applies cleanly to jdk8u except for the lack of C1 support on PPC in
8u -- thus those changes are omitted here.
This is a PPC-specific hotspot optimization that leverages the
mtfprd/mffprd instructions for for movement between general purpose and
floating point registers (rather than through memory). It yields a ~35%
improvement measured via a microbenchmark.
webrev :http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbrandy/8181809/jdk8u/v1
bug :https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8181809
review thread:http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2017-June/027226.html
Thank you.
-Matt
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