Integrated: 8274179: AArch64: Support SVE operations with encodable immediates

Fei Gao duke at openjdk.java.net
Thu Nov 18 02:44:45 UTC 2021


On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 01:58:40 GMT, Fei Gao <duke at openjdk.java.net> wrote:

> for(int i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) {
>       c[i] = a[i] + 2;
>     }
> 
> For the case showed above, after superword optimization with SVE,
> without the patch, the vector add operation always has 2 z-reg inputs,
> like:
> mov     z16.s, #2
> add	z17.s, z17.s, z16.s
> 
> Considering sve has supported basic binary operations with immediate,
> this pattern could be further optimized to:
> add     z16.s, z16.s, #2
> 
> To implement it, we added some new match rules and assembler rules in
> the aarch64 backend. We also made some extensions on immediate types
> and functions to keep backward compatible.
> 
> With the patch, only these binary integer vector operations, +(add),
> -(sub), &(and), |(orr), and ^(eor) with immediate are supported for
> the optimization. Other vector operations are not supported currently.
> 
> Tested tier1 and test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler on SVE featured AArch64
> CPU, no new failure.
> 
> There is no obvious performance uplift but it can help remove one
> redundant mov instruction.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 81938001
Author:    Fei Gao <Fei.Gao at arm.com>
Committer: Ningsheng Jian <njian at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/81938001f9bae56c59f4e18b7756089f2cf0bf74
Stats:     1476 lines in 12 files changed: 1329 ins; 43 del; 104 mod

8274179: AArch64: Support SVE operations with encodable immediates

Reviewed-by: aph, ngasson

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6115


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