RFR: 8349452: Fix performance regression for Arrays.fill() with AVX512 [v7]

Srinivas Vamsi Parasa sparasa at openjdk.org
Mon Nov 24 20:23:22 UTC 2025


> The goal of this PR is to fix the performance regression in Arrays.fill() x86 stubs caused by masked AVX stores. The fix is to replace the masked AVX stores with store instructions without masks (i.e. unmasked stores). `fill32_masked()` and `fill64_masked()` stubs are replaced with `fill32_unmasked()` and `fill64_unmasked()` respectively.
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> To speedup unmasked stores, array fills for sizes < 64 bytes are broken down into sequences of 32B, 16B, 8B, 4B, 2B and 1B stores, depending on the size.
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> ### **Performance comparison for byte array fills in a loop for 1 million times**
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> 
> UseAVX=3   ByteArray Size | +OptimizeFill    (Masked store   stub)     [secs] | -OptimizeFill   (No stub)   [secs] | --->This PR: +OptimizeFill   (Unmasked store   stub)   [secs]
> -- | -- | -- | --
> 1 | 0.46 | 0.14 | 0.185
> 2 | 0.46 | 0.16 | 0.195
> 3 | 0.46 | 0.176 | 0.199
> 4 | 0.46 | 0.244 | 0.207
> 5 | 0.46 | 0.29 | 0.32
> 10 | 0.46 | 0.58 | 0.303
> 15 | 0.46 | 0.42 | 0.271
> 16 | 0.46 | 0.46 | 0.32
> 17 | 0.21 | 0.5 | 0.299
> 20 | 0.21 | 0.37 | 0.299
> 25 | 0.21 | 0.59 | 0.282
> 31 | 0.21 | 0.53 | 0.273
> 32 | 0.21 | 0.58 | 0.199
> 35 | 0.5 | 0.77 | 0.259
> 40 | 0.5 | 0.61 | 0.33
> 45 | 0.5 | 0.52 | 0.281
> 48 | 0.5 | 0.66 | 0.32
> 49 | 0.22 | 0.69 | 0.3
> 50 | 0.22 | 0.78 | 0.3
> 55 | 0.22 | 0.67 | 0.292
> 60 | 0.22 | 0.67 | 0.3293
> 64 | 0.22 | 0.82 | 0.23
> 70 | 0.51 | 1.1 | 0.34
> 80 | 0.49 | 0.89 | 0.365
> 90 | 0.225 | 0.68 | 0.33
> 100 | 0.54 | 1.09 | 0.347
> 110 | 0.6 | 0.98 | 0.36
> 120 | 0.26 | 0.75 | 0.386
> 128 | 0.266 | 1.1 | 0.289

Srinivas Vamsi Parasa has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:

  remove all masked stores altogether

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28442/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28442/files/92ca9b92..55e77c65

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28442&range=06
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28442&range=05-06

  Stats: 52 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 46 del; 6 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28442.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/28442/head:pull/28442

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28442


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