RFR: 8358032: Use crypto pmull for CRC32/CRC32C intrinsics on Ampere CPU [v4]

[duke]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 07:15:34 GMT, Liming Liu <lliu at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR is to enable the use of crypto pmull for CRC32/CRC32C intrinsics on Ampere CPU. There is an option UseCryptoPmullForCRC32 that can enable crypto pmull, but directly enabling it on Ampere CPU will cause the following problems.
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>> 1. There will be regressions (-14% ~ -8%) on Ampere1 when the length is 64. When <= 128, both kernel_crc32_using_crc32 and kernel_crc32_using_crypto_pmull use the loop labeled as CRC_by32_loop, but their implements are a little different, and the loop in kernel_crc32_using_crc32 is better at hiding latency on Ampere1. So this PR takes the loop in kernel_crc32_using_crc32 to kernel_crc32_using_crypto_pmull, and does the same for CRC32C intrinsic.
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>> 2. The intrinsics only use crypto pmull when the length is higher than 383, while the loop in kernel_crc32_common_fold_using_crypto_pmull looks able to handle 256, and if it handles 256 on Ampere1, the improvements can be as high as 110% compared with kernel_crc32_using_crc32/kernel_crc32c_using_crc32c. However, there are regressions (~-6%) on Neoverse V1 when the length is 256. So this PR introduces a new option named CryptoPmullForCRC32LowLimit. It defaults to 256 since the code could handle 256, while it is set to 384 for V1/V2 to keep the old behavior on these platforms.
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>> The performance regressions and improvements were measured with the following microbenchmarks:
>> org.openjdk.bench.java.util.TestCRC32.testCRC32Update
>> org.openjdk.bench.java.util.TestCRC32C.testCRC32CUpdate
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>> Ran the following JTReg tests on Ampere1 and did not find problems:
>> test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/intrinsics/zip/TestCRC32.java
>> test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/intrinsics/zip/TestCRC32C.java
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> Liming Liu has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Add the message for the assertions

@limingliu-ampere 
Your change (at version df9f920a4279b5be28ea5e4bf6977f907ae50b3c) is now ready to be sponsored by a Committer.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25609#issuecomment-2961147642