Comments / metadata in assembly listings don't make sense for code vectorized using Vector API

Paul Sandoz paul.sandoz at oracle.com
Mon Jan 4 23:11:43 UTC 2021


Hi Piotr,

Thanks for experimenting. The Intel folks have also experimented with Mandelbrot generation and might be able to comment with their experience in comparison.

I would be interested to know what your expectations were with regards to speedup.

It’s hard to evaluate without a JMH benchmark which can more easily present the code hotspots and isolate from the other areas, such as for thread parallelism. My recommendation would be to extract out the computeChunksVector kernel and embed within such a benchmark.

Switching off tired compilation should help (-XX:-TiredCompilation) i.e. only C2, not C1, in getting to the C2 generated code faster.

To your question about the assembly listing I believe as HotSpot goes through various compiler passes it tries to preserve the byte code index associated with generated instructions, but naturally as code is lowered this becomes an approximation, and especially so with the Vector API.

In the case of "*synchronization entry”, this is stating the pseudo byte code index just before a method is entered. However, I think there is tech debt here, see

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/share/code/debugInfoRec.hpp#L67 <https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/share/code/debugInfoRec.hpp#L67>

And the usages of SynchronizationEntryBCI in hotspot code.

Running in fast debug mode will present a slightly higher-level view of generated code. Here’s a snippet:

26e     vmulpd  XMM12,XMM7,XMM7 ! mul packedD
272     vaddpd  XMM8,XMM0,XMM11    ! add packedD
277     vmulpd  XMM9,XMM8,XMM8 ! mul packedD
27c     vaddpd  XMM0,XMM12,XMM9    ! add packedD
281     vector_compare XMM10,XMM5,XMM0,#3  !
286     # TLS is in R15
286     cmpq    RCX, [R15 + #344 (32-bit)] # raw ptr
28d     jnb,u   B47  P=0.000100 C=-1.000000

…

2cf     vmovdqu [rsp + 64],XMM1    # spill

2d5     B25: # out( B44 B26 ) <- in( B48 B24 )  Freq: 9114.56
2d5     
2d5     # checkcastPP of RAX
2d5     vector_store_mask XMM1,XMM10   ! using XMM13 as TEMP
2f4     vector_loadmask_byte XMM15,XMM1
   
302     vmovdqu XMM1,[rsp + 448]   # spill
30b     vpor    XMM1,XMM1,XMM15    ! or vectors
310     vector_store_mask XMM0,XMM1    ! using XMM14 as TEMP
32e     store_vector [RAX + #16 (8-bit)],XMM0
   
333     vector_test RCX,XMM1, XMM2 ! using RFLAGS as TEMP
        nop    # 2 bytes pad for loops and calls
340     testl   RCX, RCX
342     je     B44  P=0.108889 C=184362.000000


The mask instructions, such as vector_store_mask, are substituted for a more complex sequence of x86 instructions on AVX 2.

I do notice that the inner loop (upper bound of 5) does unroll (FWIW, making the inner bound a power of 2 is more friendly for unrolling). There also appears to be many register spills, suggesting non-optimal vector register allocation/usage by C2.

—

I noticed this in the code:

// in Rust version this works fine, so where's the bug then?
// cmpMask = vFours.lt(vZiN.add(vZrN));

What problem did you encounter? It works for me on the tip of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk.

Paul. 

> On Dec 30, 2020, at 6:17 AM, Piotr Tarsa <piotr.tarsa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for creating Project Panama! It looks promising. However, I've
> made a try to vectorize some code and got somewhat disappointing
> results. Therefore I wanted to look at the generated machine code to
> see it it looks optimal. I've attached hsdis to JVM and enabled
> assembly printing but the output doesn't make sense to me, i.e. the
> instructions and comments / metadata don't seem to match. I may be
> wrong as I've very rarely looked at assembly listing produced by JVM.
> 
> Performance:
> As a baseline I took
> https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/program/mandelbrot-java-2.html
> which takes about 3.05s to finish on my system. After vectorization
> I've managed to achieve timings like 1.80s. That's quite disappointing
> to me as I have a Haswell machine which has AVX2, high speed L1
> caches, etc I've tested on recent JDK 16 EA build from
> http://jdk.java.net/16/
> 
> Link to the code and assembly listing:
> https://gist.github.com/tarsa/7a9c80bb84c2dcd807be9cd16a655ee0 I'll
> copy the source code again in this mail at the end.
> 
> What I see in the assembly listings is e.g.
> 
> 0x00007f0e208b8ab9:   cmp    r13d,0x7fffffc0
> 0x00007f0e208b8ac0:   jg     0x00007f0e208b932c
> 0x00007f0e208b8ac6:   vmulpd ymm0,ymm6,ymm4
> 0x00007f0e208b8aca:   vsubpd ymm1,ymm4,ymm4
> 0x00007f0e208b8ace:   vmovdqu YMMWORD PTR [rsp+0xc0],ymm1
> 0x00007f0e208b8ad7:   vmulpd ymm0,ymm0,ymm4
> ;*synchronization entry
>                                                          ; -
> jdk.internal.vm.vector.VectorSupport$VectorPayload::getPayload at -1
> (line 101)
>                                                          ; -
> jdk.incubator.vector.Double256Vector$Double256Mask::getBits at 1 (line
> 557)
>                                                          ; -
> jdk.incubator.vector.AbstractMask::toLong at 24 (line 77)
>                                                          ; -
> mandelbrot_simd_1::computeChunksVector at 228 (line 187)
> 0x00007f0e208b8adb:   vaddpd ymm0,ymm0,ymm2               ;*checkcast
> {reexecute=0 rethrow=0 return_oop=0}
>                                                          ; -
> jdk.incubator.vector.DoubleVector::fromArray0Template at 34 (line 3119)
>                                                          ; -
> jdk.incubator.vector.Double256Vector::fromArray0 at 3 (line 777)
>                                                          ; -
> jdk.incubator.vector.DoubleVector::fromArray at 24 (line 2564)
>                                                          ; -
> mandelbrot_simd_1::computeChunksVector at 95 (line 169)
> 0x00007f0e208b8adf:   vmovdqu YMMWORD PTR [rsp+0xe0],ymm0
> 0x00007f0e208b8ae8:   vmulpd ymm0,ymm0,ymm0
> 0x00007f0e208b8aec:   vmovdqu YMMWORD PTR [rsp+0x100],ymm0
> 
> How does vmulpd relate to a synchronization entry and
> AbstrackMask::toLong? It seems way off to me. However, there maybe
> some trick to understand it. Could you give me some guidelines on how
> to intepret that? Are the comments describing lines below or above
> them?
> 
> Regards,
> Piotr
> 
> mandelbrot_simd_1.java source code:
> import jdk.incubator.vector.DoubleVector;
> import jdk.incubator.vector.VectorMask;
> import jdk.incubator.vector.VectorSpecies;
> 
> import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
> import java.io.IOException;
> import java.io.OutputStream;
> import java.nio.file.Files;
> import java.nio.file.Path;
> import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
> import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
> import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
> import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
> import java.util.stream.IntStream;
> 
> public class mandelbrot_simd_1 {
>    private static final VectorSpecies<Double> SPECIES =
>            DoubleVector.SPECIES_PREFERRED.length() <= 8 ?
>                    DoubleVector.SPECIES_PREFERRED : DoubleVector.SPECIES_512;
> 
>    private static final int LANES = SPECIES.length();
> 
>    private static final int LANES_LOG = Integer.numberOfTrailingZeros(LANES);
> 
>    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
>        if ((LANES > 8) || (LANES != (1 << LANES_LOG))) {
>            var errorMsg = "LANES must be a power of two and at most 8. " +
>                    "Change SPECIES in the source code.";
>            throw new RuntimeException(errorMsg);
>        }
>        var sideLen = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
>        try (var out = new BufferedOutputStream(makeOut1())) {
>            out.write(String.format("P4\n%d %d\n", sideLen,
> sideLen).getBytes());
>            computeAndOutputRows(out, sideLen);
>        }
>    }
> 
>    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
>    // the version that avoids mixing up output with JVM diagnostic messages
>    private static OutputStream makeOut1() throws IOException {
>        return Files.newOutputStream(Path.of("mandelbrot_simd_1.pbm"));
>    }
> 
>    // the version that is compatible with benchmark requirements
>    private static OutputStream makeOut2() {
>        return System.out;
>    }
> 
>    private static void computeAndOutputRows(OutputStream out, int sideLen) {
>        var poolFactor = 1000000 / sideLen;
>        if (poolFactor < 10) {
>            throw new RuntimeException("Too small poolFactor");
>        }
>        var numCpus = Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors();
>        var rowsPerBatch = numCpus * poolFactor;
>        var fac = 2.0 / sideLen;
>        var aCr = IntStream.range(0, sideLen).parallel()
>                .mapToDouble(x -> x * fac - 1.5).toArray();
>        var bitsReversalMapping = computeBitsReversalMapping();
>        var rowsPools = new byte[2][rowsPerBatch][(sideLen + 7) / 8];
>        var rowsChunksPools = new long[2][rowsPerBatch][sideLen / 64];
>        var batchSizes = new int[2];
>        var batchCountDowns = new CountDownLatch[2];
>        var computeEc = Executors.newWorkStealingPool(numCpus);
>        var masterThread = new Thread(() -> {
>            var rowsToProcess = sideLen;
>            var nextBatchStart = 0;
>            batchSizes[0] = 0;
>            batchCountDowns[0] = new CountDownLatch(0);
>            for (var poolId = 0; rowsToProcess > 0; poolId ^= 1) {
>                while (batchCountDowns[poolId].getCount() != 0) {
>                    try {
>                        batchCountDowns[poolId].await();
>                    } catch (InterruptedException ignored) {
>                    }
>                }
>                batchCountDowns[poolId] = null;
> 
>                var nextBatchSize =
>                        Math.min(sideLen - nextBatchStart, rowsPerBatch);
>                var nextPoolId = poolId ^ 1;
>                batchSizes[nextPoolId] = nextBatchSize;
>                batchCountDowns[nextPoolId] = new CountDownLatch(nextBatchSize);
>                sendTasks(fac, aCr, bitsReversalMapping,
>                        rowsPools[nextPoolId], rowsChunksPools[nextPoolId],
>                        nextBatchStart, nextBatchSize,
>                        batchCountDowns[nextPoolId], computeEc);
>                nextBatchStart += nextBatchSize;
> 
>                var batchSize = batchSizes[poolId];
>                try {
>                    for (var rowIdx = 0; rowIdx < batchSize; rowIdx++) {
>                        out.write(rowsPools[poolId][rowIdx]);
>                    }
>                    out.flush();
>                } catch (IOException e) {
>                    e.printStackTrace();
>                    System.exit(-1);
>                }
>                rowsToProcess -= batchSize;
>            }
> 
>            computeEc.shutdown();
>        });
>        masterThread.start();
>        while (masterThread.isAlive() || !computeEc.isTerminated()) {
>            try {
>                @SuppressWarnings("unused")
>                var ignored = computeEc.awaitTermination(1, TimeUnit.DAYS);
>                masterThread.join();
>            } catch (InterruptedException ignored) {
>            }
>        }
>    }
> 
>    private static void sendTasks(double fac, double[] aCr,
>                                  byte[] bitsReversalMapping,
>                                  byte[][] rows, long[][] rowsChunks,
>                                  int batchStart, int batchSize,
>                                  CountDownLatch poolsActiveWorkersCount,
>                                  ExecutorService computeEc) {
>        for (var i = 0; i < batchSize; i++) {
>            var indexInBatch = i;
>            var y = batchStart + i;
>            var Ci = y * fac - 1.0;
>            computeEc.submit(() -> {
>                try {
>                    computeRow(Ci, aCr, bitsReversalMapping,
>                            rows[indexInBatch], rowsChunks[indexInBatch]);
>                    poolsActiveWorkersCount.countDown();
>                } catch (Exception e) {
>                    e.printStackTrace();
>                    System.exit(-1);
>                }
>            });
>        }
>    }
> 
>    private static byte[] computeBitsReversalMapping() {
>        var bitsReversalMapping = new byte[256];
>        for (var i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
>            bitsReversalMapping[i] = (byte) (Integer.reverse(i) >>> 24);
>        }
>        return bitsReversalMapping;
>    }
> 
>    private static void computeRow(double Ci, double[] aCr,
>                                   byte[] bitsReversalMapping,
>                                   byte[] row, long[] rowChunks) {
>        computeChunksVector(Ci, aCr, rowChunks);
>        transferRowFlags(rowChunks, row, bitsReversalMapping);
>        computeRemainderScalar(aCr, row, Ci);
>    }
> 
>    private static void computeChunksVector(double Ci, double[] aCr,
>                                            long[] rowChunks) {
>        var sideLen = aCr.length;
>        var vCi = DoubleVector.broadcast(SPECIES, Ci);
>        var vZeroes = DoubleVector.zero(SPECIES);
>        var vTwos = DoubleVector.broadcast(SPECIES, 2.0);
>        var vFours = DoubleVector.broadcast(SPECIES, 4.0);
>        var zeroMask = VectorMask.fromLong(SPECIES, 0);
>        // (1 << 6) = 64 = length of long in bits
>        for (var xBase = 0; xBase < (sideLen & ~(1 << 6)); xBase += (1 << 6)) {
>            var cmpFlags = 0L;
>            for (var xInc = 0; xInc < (1 << 6); xInc += LANES) {
>                var vZr = vZeroes;
>                var vZi = vZeroes;
>                var vCr = DoubleVector.fromArray(SPECIES, aCr, xBase + xInc);
>                var vZrN = vZeroes;
>                var vZiN = vZeroes;
>                var cmpMask = zeroMask;
>                for (var outer = 0; outer < 10; outer++) {
>                    for (var inner = 0; inner < 5; inner++) {
>                        vZi = vTwos.mul(vZr).mul(vZi).add(vCi);
>                        vZr = vZrN.sub(vZiN).add(vCr);
>                        vZiN = vZi.mul(vZi);
>                        vZrN = vZr.mul(vZr);
>                    }
>                    cmpMask = cmpMask.or(vFours.lt(vZiN.add(vZrN)));
>                    // in Rust version this works fine, so where's the bug then?
>                    // cmpMask = vFours.lt(vZiN.add(vZrN));
>                    if (cmpMask.allTrue()) {
>                        break;
>                    }
>                }
>                cmpFlags |= cmpMask.toLong() << xInc;
>            }
>            rowChunks[xBase >> 6] = cmpFlags;
>        }
>    }
> 
>    private static void transferRowFlags(long[] rowChunks, byte[] row,
>                                         byte[] bitsReversalMapping) {
>        for (var i = 0; i < rowChunks.length; i++) {
>            var group = ~rowChunks[i];
>            row[i * 8 + 7] = bitsReversalMapping[0xff & (byte) (group >>> 56)];
>            row[i * 8 + 6] = bitsReversalMapping[0xff & (byte) (group >>> 48)];
>            row[i * 8 + 5] = bitsReversalMapping[0xff & (byte) (group >>> 40)];
>            row[i * 8 + 4] = bitsReversalMapping[0xff & (byte) (group >>> 32)];
>            row[i * 8 + 3] = bitsReversalMapping[0xff & (byte) (group >>> 24)];
>            row[i * 8 + 2] = bitsReversalMapping[0xff & (byte) (group >>> 16)];
>            row[i * 8 + 1] = bitsReversalMapping[0xff & (byte) (group >>> 8)];
>            row[i * 8] = bitsReversalMapping[0xff & (byte) group];
>        }
>    }
> 
>    private static void computeRemainderScalar(double[] aCr, byte[]
> row, double Ci) {
>        var sideLen = aCr.length;
>        var bits = 0;
>        for (var x = sideLen & ~(1 << 6); x < sideLen; x++) {
>            var Zr = 0.0;
>            var Zi = 0.0;
>            var Cr = aCr[x];
>            var i = 50;
>            var ZrN = 0.0;
>            var ZiN = 0.0;
>            do {
>                Zi = 2.0 * Zr * Zi + Ci;
>                Zr = ZrN - ZiN + Cr;
>                ZiN = Zi * Zi;
>                ZrN = Zr * Zr;
>            } while (ZiN + ZrN <= 4.0 && --i > 0);
>            bits <<= 1;
>            bits += i == 0 ? 1 : 0;
>            if (x % 8 == 7) {
>                row[x / 8] = (byte) bits;
>                bits = 0;
>            }
>        }
>        if (sideLen % 8 != 0) {
>            row[sideLen / 8] = (byte) bits;
>        }
>    }
> }



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