RFR: 8322770: Implement C2 VectorizedHashCode on AArch64 [v5]

[Andrew Dinn]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:11:25 GMT, Mikhail Ablakatov <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hello,
>> 
>> Please review the following PR for [JDK-8322770 Implement C2 VectorizedHashCode on AArch64](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8322770). It follows previous work done in https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/16629 and https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/10847 for RISC-V and x86 respectively. 
>> 
>> The code to calculate a hash code consists of two parts: a vectorized loop of Neon instruction that process 4 or 8 elements per iteration depending on the data type and a fully unrolled scalar "loop" that processes up to 7 tail elements.
>> 
>> At the time of writing this I don't see potential benefits from providing SVE/SVE2 implementation, but it could be added as a follow-up or independently later if required.
>> 
>> # Performance
>> 
>> ## Neoverse N1
>> 
>> 
>>   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   Version                                            Baseline           This patch
>>   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   Benchmark                   (size)  Mode  Cnt      Score    Error     Score     Error  Units
>>   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   ArraysHashCode.bytes             1  avgt   15      1.249 ?  0.060     1.247 ?   0.062  ns/op
>>   ArraysHashCode.bytes            10  avgt   15      8.754 ?  0.028     4.387 ?   0.015  ns/op
>>   ArraysHashCode.bytes           100  avgt   15     98.596 ?  0.051    26.655 ?   0.097  ns/op
>>   ArraysHashCode.bytes         10000  avgt   15  10150.578 ?  1.352  2649.962 ? 216.744  ns/op
>>   ArraysHashCode.chars             1  avgt   15      1.286 ?  0.062     1.246 ?   0.054  ns/op
>>   ArraysHashCode.chars            10  avgt   15      8.731 ?  0.002     5.344 ?   0.003  ns/op
>>   ArraysHashCode.chars           100  avgt   15     98.632 ?  0.048    23.023 ?   0.142  ns/op
>>   ArraysHashCode.chars         10000  avgt   15  10150.658 ?  3.374  2410.504 ?   8.872  ns/op
>>   ArraysHashCode.ints              1  avgt   15      1.189 ?  0.005     1.187 ?   0.001  ns/op
>>   ArraysHashCode.ints             10  avgt   15      8.730 ?  0.002     5.676 ?   0.001  ns/op
>>   ArraysHashCode.ints            100  avgt   15     98.559 ?  0.016    24.378 ?   0.006  ns/op
>>   ArraysHashCode.ints          10000  avgt   15  10148.752 ?  1.336  2419.015 ?   0.492  ns/op
>>   ArraysHashCode.multibytes        1  avgt   15      1.037 ?  0.001     1.037 ?   0.001  ...
>
> Mikhail Ablakatov has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   cleanup: use a constexpr function for intpow instead of a templated class

The code here looks very good. Apart from the one bit I highlighted as seriously in need of a comment it is all quite readable.

I think it would be worth adding another comment in the code to document why loop_factor is doubled for bools and bytes. It was not immediately obvious that this was to to do with the available vector load options. A brief comment would stop a maintainer getting sidestepped by that difference and having to do some archaeology to resolve the confusion.

You might also choose to document the reason for choosing 4 for the loop_unroll factor but we have the rationale here on the PR for anyone who needs to know.

Oh, and I should have said: very nice work!

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Marked as reviewed by adinn (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18487#pullrequestreview-2254580682
PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18487#issuecomment-2304723784