RFR: 8278868: Add x86 vectorization support for Long.bitCount() [v6]

[Vamsi Parasa]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 01:47:04 GMT, Vamsi Parasa <duke at openjdk.java.net> wrote:

>> Vectorization support of Integer.bitCount() already exists but currently the same support is lacking for Long.bitCount(). Similar to the C2 PopCountVI node, we created a C2 PopCountVL node and used vpopcntq x86 instruction to enable vectorized Long.bitCount(). This patch shows 2.57x improvement in performance on a JMH micro benchmark due to x86 vectorization.
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> Vamsi Parasa has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Update IR framework test to check for non-zero count of PopCountVL

Thank you Jatin and Sandhya for the review!

Thank you Vladimir for looking into the patch. Will update the branch and let you know...

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6857