[jdk21u-dev] RFR: 8328938: C2 SuperWord: disable vectorization for large stride and scale

[Emanuel Peter]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:04:17 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Unclean backport to prevent accidents in C2 loop optimizations. The patch is unclean, because JDK 21u misses major SuperWord refactorings. I applied the hunk by hand in the similar place, and also used `slp->iv_stride()` in one place to get this thing to work.
> 
> @eme64, if you want to take a look at this?
> 
> Additional testing:
>  - [x] New regression test fails without the patch, passes with it
>  - [ ] Linux x86_64 server fastdebug, `all`
>  - [ ] Linux x86_64 server fastdebug, 100K Fuzzer tests
>  - [ ] Linux x86_64 server fastdebug, Maven CTW

@shipilev that looks like the right thing to do, yes!
Thanks for the work :)

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Marked as reviewed by epeter (Committer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk21u-dev/pull/495#pullrequestreview-2000307189