On Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:07:00 GMT, Jatin Bhateja <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> x86 AVX-512 targets provides packed shifts for 16, 32, and 64-bit lanes, but 
> not for bytes. C2 lowers LShiftVB, RShiftVB, and URShiftVB by widening bytes 
> to words, shifting, masking, and packing. That sequence is the byte-shift 
> bottleneck.
> 
> GFNI **gf2p8affineqb** instruction applies one 8×8 bit matrix to every byte. 
> Logical left, logical right, and arithmetic right shifts by 0..7 are fixed 
> matrices derived from the identity 0x0102040810204080.
> 
> Patch uses this lowering for 128-, 256-, and 512-bit vectors when GFNI is 
> available and keeps the existing widen/shift/pack path when GFNI is absent.
> 
> Following are the performance numbers of benchmark included with the patch.
> 
> System: AMD EPYC 9755 128-Core Processor (Turin) Fixed frequency 2.5Ghz
> 
> Baseline:-
> ----------
> Benchmark                       (shift)   Mode  Cnt      Score   Error   Units
> ByteShiftBenchmark.ashr128            3  thrpt    2  24994.026          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.ashr256            3  thrpt    2  29289.608          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.ashr512            3  thrpt    2  39944.806          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.autoVecAshr        3  thrpt    2  32592.174          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.autoVecLshl        3  thrpt    2  30668.901          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.lshl128            3  thrpt    2  25247.149          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.lshl256            3  thrpt    2  27345.375          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.lshl512            3  thrpt    2  38500.755          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.lshr128            3  thrpt    2  25081.398          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.lshr256            3  thrpt    2  28272.477          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.lshr512            3  thrpt    2  42186.028          ops/us
> 
> Withopt:-
> ---------
> Benchmark                       (shift)   Mode  Cnt      Score   Error   Units
> ByteShiftBenchmark.ashr128            3  thrpt    2  31313.173          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.ashr256            3  thrpt    2  58663.746          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.ashr512            3  thrpt    2  50472.509          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.autoVecAshr        3  thrpt    2  44965.109          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.autoVecLshl        3  thrpt    2  46304.515          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.lshl128            3  thrpt    2  28849.321          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.lshl256            3  thrpt    2  40492.534          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.lshl512            3  thrpt    2  65465.815          ops/us
> ByteShiftBenchmark.lshr128            3...

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 2d03a6c7
Author:    Jatin Bhateja <[email protected]>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/2d03a6c701892cd51ac1c14f6eea466743df7e03
Stats:     599 lines in 10 files changed: 595 ins; 0 del; 4 mod

8393068: Optimize uniform vector byte shift operations using x86 GFNI 
instruction

Reviewed-by: sviswanathan, vlivanov

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/33113

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