Masking for AVX512 and complete mask boxing

[Vladimir Ivanov]

Looks good!

Thanks for covering generalized intrinsics.

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

On 2/23/18 12:28 AM, Lupusoru, Razvan A wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am submitting a patch with the following features:
> 
> *         AVX512 mask support by converting mask to vector registers (and vice-versa)
> 
> *         Working comparisons and blend for float in AVX512
> 
> *         Improved architecture feature checking which ensures intrinsification will not happen if unsupported instruction is being used
> 
> o   I made sure that Vladimir's generalized intrinsics also use this improved checking mechanism
> 
> *         Complete mask boxing implementation for types and sizes
> 
> *         Bug fix for mulAll in generalized intrinsics implementation
> 
> Please let me know if you have any comments. The webrev is available here:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rlupusoru/panama/webrev_maskboxingavx512_02/index.html
> 
> Thanks,
> Razvan
>