RFR: 8371259: ML-DSA AVX2 and AVX512 intrinsics and improvements

[Volodymyr Paprotski]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2025 16:38:49 GMT, Volodymyr Paprotski <vpaprotski at openjdk.org> wrote:

> - New AVX2 intrinsics are 1.6x-6.9x faster than Java baseline 
>    - `SignatureBench.MLDSA` is 1.2x-2.2x faster
>    - Note: there is no AVX2-SHA3 intrinsics yet (Being reviewed https://github.com/vpaprotsk/jdk/pull/7)
> - AVX512 intrinsic improvements are 1.24x-1.5x faster then current version 
>   - `SignatureBench.MLDSA` is upto 5% faster, never slower
> 
> Note on intrinsic:
> - The emitted (existing) AVX512 assembler was not "significantly" changed; mostly more efficient instruction selection and tighter register allocation, which allowed removal of NTT loop and stack spill.
> - Code was refactored to allow reuse of same assembler (as possible) for AVX512 and AVX2
> 
> Tests and benchmarks:
> - Added a fuzz test to ensure Java and intrinsic produces exactly same result
> - Added benchmark to measure the performance of intrinsic itself
> 
> make test TEST="test/jdk/sun/security/provider/acvp/Launcher.java test/jdk/sun/security/provider/acvp/ML_DSA_Intrinsic_Test.java"
> make test TEST="test/jdk/sun/security/provider/acvp/Launcher.java test/jdk/sun/security/provider/acvp/ML_DSA_Intrinsic_Test.java" JTREG="JAVA_OPTIONS=-XX:UseAVX=2"
> make test TEST="micro:org.openjdk.bench.javax.crypto.full.SignatureBench.MLDSA" MICRO="JAVA_OPTIONS=-XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+UseDilithiumIntrinsics;FORK=1"
> make test TEST="micro:org.openjdk.bench.javax.crypto.full.SignatureBench.MLDSA" MICRO="JAVA_OPTIONS=-XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:-UseDilithiumIntrinsics;FORK=1"

@ferakocz @ascarpino when you can spare some time, would appreciate a review (would like to get this into 26 if possible..)

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28136#issuecomment-3529414018