> But to my earlier question. please: can the new instructions be moved into > jdk head first, and then merged into the Panama branch, or not?
The new instructions can be classified as: 1. Instructions that can be matched with NEON instructions directly. MulVB and SqrtVF have been merged into jdk master already. The patch of AbsV is in review [1]. 2. Instructions that Jdk master has middle end support for, but they cannot be matched with NEON instructions directly. Such as AddReductionVL, MulReductionVL, And/Or/XorReductionV These new instructions can be moved into jdk master first, but for auto-vectorization, the performance might not get improved. May I have a new patch for these? 3. Panama/Vector API specific instructions Such as Load/StoreVector ( 16 bits), VectorReinterpret, VectorMaskCmp, MaxV/MinV, VectorBlend etc. These instructions cannot be moved into jdk master first because there isn't middle-end support. Regards Yang [1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/aarch64-port-dev/2020-May/008861.html -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 4:25 PM To: Yang Zhang <yang.zh...@arm.com>; Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> Cc: hotspot-compiler-...@openjdk.java.net; hotspot-...@openjdk.java.net; core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net; aarch64-port-...@openjdk.java.net; nd <n...@arm.com> Subject: Re: [aarch64-port-dev ] RFR (XXL): 8223347: Integration of Vector API (Incubator): AArch64 backend changes On 25/05/2020 09:26, Yang Zhang wrote: > In jdk master, what we need to do is that writing m4 file for existing > vector instructions and placed them to a new file aarch64_neon.ad. > If no question, I will do it right away. I'm not entirely sure that such a change is necessary now. In particular, reorganizing the existing vector instructions is IMO excessive, but I admit that it might be an improvement. But to my earlier question. please: can the new instructions be moved into jdk head first, and then merged into the Panama branch, or not? It'd help if this was possible. -- Andrew Haley (he/him) Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> https://keybase.io/andrewhaley EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671
