On Wed, 8 Apr 2026 02:12:29 GMT, Xiaohong Gong <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Duplicate `ptrue`(`MaskAll`) instructions are generated with different 
>> predicate registers on SVE when multiple `VectorMask.not()` operations 
>> exist. This increases the predicate register pressure and reduces 
>> performance, especially after loop is unrolled.
>> 
>> Root cause: the matcher clones `MaskAll` for each `not` pattern (i.e. 
>> `(XorVMask (MaskAll m1))`), but SVE has no match rule for that alone. And 
>> the cloned `MaskAll` nodes are not shared with each other.
>> 
>> Since SVE has rules for the `andNot` pattern:
>> 
>>   match(Set pd (AndVMask pn (XorVMask pm (MaskAll m1))));
>> 
>> `MaskAll` node should be cloned only when it is part of the `andNot` pattern 
>> instead.
>> 
>> A second issue: `AndVMask`, `OrVMask`, and `XorVMask` are not in the 
>> matcher's commutative vector op list, so their operands are never swapped. 
>> As a result, the `andNot` rule does not match when the `XorVMask` operands 
>> appear in the opposite order (e.g. `(XorVMask (MaskAll m1) pm)`).
>> 
>> This patch fixes both issues by 1) limiting when `MaskAll` is cloned and 2) 
>> adding the three binary mask bitwise IRs to the commutative op list.
>> 
>> Following is the performance result of the new added JMH tested on V1 and 
>> Grace(V2) machines respecitively:
>> 
>> V1 (SVE machine with 256-bit vector length):
>> 
>> Benchmark                                                     Mode  Threads 
>> Samples Unit   size  Before     After     Gain
>> MaskLogicOperationsBenchmark.byteMaskAndNot                   thrpt 1       
>> 30      ops/ms  256 54465.231  74374.960  1.365
>> MaskLogicOperationsBenchmark.byteMaskAndNot                   thrpt 1       
>> 30      ops/ms  512 29156.881  39601.358  1.358
>> MaskLogicOperationsBenchmark.byteMaskAndNot                   thrpt 1       
>> 30      ops/ms 1024 15169.894  20272.379  1.336
>> MaskLogicOperationsBenchmark.intMaskAndNot                    thrpt 1       
>> 30      ops/ms  256 15408.510  19808.722  1.285
>> MaskLogicOperationsBenchmark.intMaskAndNot                    thrpt 1       
>> 30      ops/ms  512  7906.952  10297.837  1.302
>> MaskLogicOperationsBenchmark.intMaskAndNot                    thrpt 1       
>> 30      ops/ms 1024  3767.122   5097.853  1.353
>> MaskLogicOperationsBenchmark.longMaskAndNot                   thrpt 1       
>> 30      ops/ms  256  7762.614  10534.290  1.357
>> MaskLogicOperationsBenchmark.longMaskAndNot                   thrpt 1       
>> 30      ops/ms  512  3976.759   5123.445  1.288
>> MaskLogicOperationsBenchmark.longMaskAndNot                   thrpt 1       
>> 30      ops/...
>
> Xiaohong Gong has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a 
> merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes 
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains four additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Do not clone maskAll if two inputs of AndVMask are both mask-not pattern
>  - Merge branch 'jdk:master' into JDK-8378737
>  - Add comment
>  - 8378737: AArch64: Fix SVE match rule issues for VectorMask.andNot()

Hi, could anyone please help take a look at this PR? Thanks a lot in advance!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/30013#issuecomment-4242720193

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