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Mailing list message from Vladimir Ivanov on hotspot-dev:

Hi Kevin,

Very interesting observations. I like the idea to optimize for the case
when REFC == DECC.

Fusing 2 passes over the itable into one does look attractive, but I'm
not sure the proposed variant is correct. I suggest to split the patch
into 2 enhancements and handle them separately.

I'm curious what kind of benchmarks you used and what are the
improvements observed with the patch.

One suggestion about the implementation:

src/hotspot/cpu/x86/macroAssembler_x86.cpp:

+void MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method_in_stub(Register recv_klass,

I'd like to avoid having 2 independent implementations of itable lookup
(MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method_in_stub() and
MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method()). It would be nice to keep the
implementation unified between itable and MethodHandle linkToInterface
linker stubs.

What MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method(..., true
/*return_method*/) does is interface method lookup w/o proper subtype
check and it is equivalent to fast loop in
MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method_in_stub().

As a possible path forward, you could introduce the fast path check
first by moving the fast path check into
VtableStubs::create_itable_stub() and guard the first path over the
itable. It would make the type checking pass over itable optional based
on runtime check.

Then you could refactor MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method() to
optionally do REFC and DECC checks on every iteration and migrate
VtableStubs::create_itable_stub() and
MethodHandles::generate_method_handle_dispatch() to it.

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

On 14.09.2020 13:52, kuaiwei wrote:

Mailing list message from Kuai Wei on hotspot-compiler-dev:

Hi Vladimir,

Thanks for your review.

I updated my test cases in test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/vm/compiler/InterfaceCalls.java . My tests will not inline interface methods and most cpu are used by itable_stub.
every test will run 10 warmup iterations and 5 measure iterations for one score. I took 3 score for every test.
Below is test result on my machines, it looks slow loop has more improvement than origin one.

aarch64:
=== testStubPoly3 ===
orig: 38430308.215 38438769.040 38325616.152
opt : 39425275.311 39626194.985 39374242.065

=== testStubPoly5 ===
orig: 23227433.053 23210843.937 23212518.073
opt : 23805995.657 23797837.061 23861764.978

=== testSlowStubPoly3 ===
orig: 30838750.839 30886603.202 30841314.152
opt : 36166775.967 36242733.807 36041506.263

=== testSlowStubPoly5 ===
orig: 18713218.115 18706994.686 18686729.040
opt : 21827549.808 21836822.173 21861920.069

x86:
=== testStubPoly3 ===
orig: 36339726.912 36322863.060 36363196.132
opt : 38631086.341 38465649.400 38466044.926

=== testStubPoly5 ===
orig: 22240149.674 22218724.450 22225970.358
opt : 23498941.840 23454580.221 23497053.570

=== testSlowStubPoly3 ===
orig: 28693696.199 28700714.257 28587900.429
opt : 34187319.519 34171321.762 34138648.599

=== testSlowStubPoly5 ===
orig: 17388480.977 17389247.386 17177206.666
opt : 20697609.518 20771108.051 20699215.655

I think lookup_interface_method can be reused as fast path. And it is also used by templateTable::invoke_interface and generate_method_handle_dispatch.
My implementation in slow path need more registers (6 registers so far), I need to check if there's register conflict in these methods. I'd like to keep a separate
slow path implementation. How do you think about it?

Thanks,
Kevin

------------------------------------------------------------------
From:Vladimir Ivanov <vladimir.x.ivanov at oracle.com>
Send Time:2020?9?14?(???) 22:10
To:kuaiwei <github.com+1981974+kuaiwei at openjdk.java.net>; hotspot-dev <hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net>; hotspot-compiler-dev <hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net>
Subject:Re: RFR: 8253049: Enhance itable_stub for AArch64 and x86_64

Hi Kevin,

Very interesting observations. I like the idea to optimize for the case
when REFC == DECC.

Fusing 2 passes over the itable into one does look attractive, but I'm
not sure the proposed variant is correct. I suggest to split the patch
into 2 enhancements and handle them separately.

I'm curious what kind of benchmarks you used and what are the
improvements observed with the patch.

One suggestion about the implementation:

src/hotspot/cpu/x86/macroAssembler_x86.cpp:

+void MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method_in_stub(Register recv_klass,

I'd like to avoid having 2 independent implementations of itable lookup
(MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method_in_stub() and
MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method()). It would be nice to keep the
implementation unified between itable and MethodHandle linkToInterface
linker stubs.

What MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method(..., true
/*return_method*/) does is interface method lookup w/o proper subtype
check and it is equivalent to fast loop in
MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method_in_stub().

As a possible path forward, you could introduce the fast path check
first by moving the fast path check into
VtableStubs::create_itable_stub() and guard the first path over the
itable. It would make the type checking pass over itable optional based
on runtime check.

Then you could refactor MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method() to
optionally do REFC and DECC checks on every iteration and migrate
VtableStubs::create_itable_stub() and
MethodHandles::generate_method_handle_dispatch() to it.

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

On 14.09.2020 13:52, kuaiwei wrote:

Mailing list message from Vladimir Ivanov on hotspot-dev:

I updated my test cases in test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/vm/compiler/InterfaceCalls.java . My tests will not inline interface methods and most cpu are used by itable_stub.
every test will run 10 warmup iterations and 5 measure iterations for one score. I took 3 score for every test.
Below is test result on my machines, it looks slow loop has more improvement than origin one.

Good, thanks for the numbers. I'm curious have you observed any
improvements on larger scale benchmarks or real world apps?

I'm asking because linear scan is already far from optimal when there
are many superinterfaces present.

I think lookup_interface_method can be reused as fast path. And it is also used by templateTable::invoke_interface and generate_method_handle_dispatch.
My implementation in slow path need more registers (6 registers so far), I need to check if there's register conflict in these methods. I'd like to keep a separate
slow path implementation. How do you think about it?

Frankly speaking, I'd like to avoid the duplication.

Also, absence of guarantees about order of interfaces in the itable
complicates things: REFC and DECC can be encountered in arbitrary order
and the pass should take that into account. For example, I don't see
early exit on success in slow variant, so every lookup has to go through
the whole itable irrespective of whether it succeeds or fails. I
attribute that to the complications induced by aforementioned aspect.

And speaking of the overall approach (as it is implemented now), IMO
increased complexity doesn't worth it. If interface calls become a
bottleneck, the problem lies not in itable stub, but the overall design
which requires linear scan over itables. It's better to put the effort
there than micro-optimizing the stub.

But I'm happy to change my mind if the rewritten implementation makes it
easier to reason about the code.

(FTR subtype checks suffer from a similar problem: unless
Klass::_secondary_super_cache catches it, subtype check for an interface
does a linear scan over _secondary_supers array.)

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

------------------------------------------------------------------
From:Vladimir Ivanov <vladimir.x.ivanov at oracle.com>
Send Time:2020?9?14?(???) 22:10
To:kuaiwei <github.com+1981974+kuaiwei at openjdk.java.net>; hotspot-dev <hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net>; hotspot-compiler-dev <hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net>
Subject:Re: RFR: 8253049: Enhance itable_stub for AArch64 and x86_64

Hi Kevin,

Very interesting observations. I like the idea to optimize for the case
when REFC == DECC.

Fusing 2 passes over the itable into one does look attractive, but I'm
not sure the proposed variant is correct. I suggest to split the patch
into 2 enhancements and handle them separately.

I'm curious what kind of benchmarks you used and what are the
improvements observed with the patch.

One suggestion about the implementation:

src/hotspot/cpu/x86/macroAssembler_x86.cpp:

+void MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method_in_stub(Register recv_klass,

I'd like to avoid having 2 independent implementations of itable lookup
(MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method_in_stub() and
MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method()). It would be nice to keep the
implementation unified between itable and MethodHandle linkToInterface
linker stubs.

What MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method(..., true
/*return_method*/) does is interface method lookup w/o proper subtype
check and it is equivalent to fast loop in
MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method_in_stub().

As a possible path forward, you could introduce the fast path check
first by moving the fast path check into
VtableStubs::create_itable_stub() and guard the first path over the
itable. It would make the type checking pass over itable optional based
on runtime check.

Then you could refactor MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method() to
optionally do REFC and DECC checks on every iteration and migrate
VtableStubs::create_itable_stub() and
MethodHandles::generate_method_handle_dispatch() to it.

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

On 14.09.2020 13:52, kuaiwei wrote:

Mailing list message from Andrew Haley on hotspot-dev:

On 15/09/2020 10:02, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:

And speaking of the overall approach (as it is implemented now), IMO
increased complexity doesn't worth it. If interface calls become a
bottleneck, the problem lies not in itable stub, but the overall design
which requires linear scan over itables. It's better to put the effort
there than micro-optimizing the stub.

Indeed. When I first came to HotSpot after working on GCJ for years
I was very surprised to see a linear scan used for interface dispatch.

The code improvements look to be fairly minor.

--
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

Mailing list message from Kuai Wei on hotspot-dev:

Thanks for your quick reply.

I updated my test cases in test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/vm/compiler/InterfaceCalls.java . My tests will not inline interface methods and most cpu are used by itable_stub.
every test will run 10 warmup iterations and 5 measure iterations for one score. I took 3 score for every test.
Below is test result on my machines, it looks slow loop has more improvement than origin one.

Good, thanks for the numbers. I'm curious have you observed any
improvements on larger scale benchmarks or real world apps?

I'm asking because linear scan is already far from optimal when there
are many superinterfaces present.

Kevin: itable_stub was found hot on several online applications. So I started to work on this. Now I don't have chance to verify it online. So I uses microbenchmarks to verify. I will
test with some benchmarks.

I think lookup_interface_method can be reused as fast path. And it is also used by templateTable::invoke_interface and generate_method_handle_dispatch.
My implementation in slow path need more registers (6 registers so far), I need to check if there's register conflict in these methods. I'd like to keep a separate
slow path implementation. How do you think about it?

Frankly speaking, I'd like to avoid the duplication.

Kevin: Ok, I will try to merge them.

Also, absence of guarantees about order of interfaces in the itable
complicates things: REFC and DECC can be encountered in arbitrary order
and the pass should take that into account. For example, I don't see
early exit on success in slow variant, so every lookup has to go through
the whole itable irrespective of whether it succeeds or fails. I
attribute that to the complications induced by aforementioned aspect.

Kevin: I use a counter for matching. If it reaches zero, the iteration can exit early.

And speaking of the overall approach (as it is implemented now), IMO
increased complexity doesn't worth it. If interface calls become a
bottleneck, the problem lies not in itable stub, but the overall design
which requires linear scan over itables. It's better to put the effort
there than micro-optimizing the stub.

Kevin: I agree we can improve itable design. My initial think is jvm may reorder itable at safepoint. I can take it as a follow up optimization.

But I'm happy to change my mind if the rewritten implementation makes it
easier to reason about the code.

(FTR subtype checks suffer from a similar problem: unless
Klass::_secondary_super_cache catches it, subtype check for an interface
does a linear scan over _secondary_supers array.)

Regards,
Kevin

------------------------------------------------------------------
From:Vladimir Ivanov <vladimir.x.ivanov at oracle.com>
Send Time:2020?9?15?(???) 17:03
To:??(??) <kuaiwei.kw at alibaba-inc.com>; hotspot-dev <hotspot-dev-retn at openjdk.java.net>; kuaiwei <github.com+1981974+kuaiwei at openjdk.java.net>; hotspot-dev <hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net>; hotspot-compiler-dev <hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net>
Subject:Re: RFR: 8253049: Enhance itable_stub for AArch64 and x86_64

I updated my test cases in test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/vm/compiler/InterfaceCalls.java . My tests will not inline interface methods and most cpu are used by itable_stub.
every test will run 10 warmup iterations and 5 measure iterations for one score. I took 3 score for every test.
Below is test result on my machines, it looks slow loop has more improvement than origin one.

Good, thanks for the numbers. I'm curious have you observed any
improvements on larger scale benchmarks or real world apps?

I'm asking because linear scan is already far from optimal when there
are many superinterfaces present.

I think lookup_interface_method can be reused as fast path. And it is also used by templateTable::invoke_interface and generate_method_handle_dispatch.
My implementation in slow path need more registers (6 registers so far), I need to check if there's register conflict in these methods. I'd like to keep a separate
slow path implementation. How do you think about it?

Frankly speaking, I'd like to avoid the duplication.

Also, absence of guarantees about order of interfaces in the itable
complicates things: REFC and DECC can be encountered in arbitrary order
and the pass should take that into account. For example, I don't see
early exit on success in slow variant, so every lookup has to go through
the whole itable irrespective of whether it succeeds or fails. I
attribute that to the complications induced by aforementioned aspect.

And speaking of the overall approach (as it is implemented now), IMO
increased complexity doesn't worth it. If interface calls become a
bottleneck, the problem lies not in itable stub, but the overall design
which requires linear scan over itables. It's better to put the effort
there than micro-optimizing the stub.

But I'm happy to change my mind if the rewritten implementation makes it
easier to reason about the code.

(FTR subtype checks suffer from a similar problem: unless
Klass::_secondary_super_cache catches it, subtype check for an interface
does a linear scan over _secondary_supers array.)

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

------------------------------------------------------------------
From:Vladimir Ivanov <vladimir.x.ivanov at oracle.com>
Send Time:2020?9?14?(???) 22:10
To:kuaiwei <github.com+1981974+kuaiwei at openjdk.java.net>; hotspot-dev <hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net>; hotspot-compiler-dev <hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net>
Subject:Re: RFR: 8253049: Enhance itable_stub for AArch64 and x86_64

Hi Kevin,

Very interesting observations. I like the idea to optimize for the case
when REFC == DECC.

Fusing 2 passes over the itable into one does look attractive, but I'm
not sure the proposed variant is correct. I suggest to split the patch
into 2 enhancements and handle them separately.

I'm curious what kind of benchmarks you used and what are the
improvements observed with the patch.

One suggestion about the implementation:

src/hotspot/cpu/x86/macroAssembler_x86.cpp:

+void MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method_in_stub(Register recv_klass,

I'd like to avoid having 2 independent implementations of itable lookup
(MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method_in_stub() and
MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method()). It would be nice to keep the
implementation unified between itable and MethodHandle linkToInterface
linker stubs.

What MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method(..., true
/*return_method*/) does is interface method lookup w/o proper subtype
check and it is equivalent to fast loop in
MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method_in_stub().

As a possible path forward, you could introduce the fast path check
first by moving the fast path check into
VtableStubs::create_itable_stub() and guard the first path over the
itable. It would make the type checking pass over itable optional based
on runtime check.

Then you could refactor MacroAssembler::lookup_interface_method() to
optionally do REFC and DECC checks on every iteration and migrate
VtableStubs::create_itable_stub() and
MethodHandles::generate_method_handle_dispatch() to it.

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

On 14.09.2020 13:52, kuaiwei wrote:

Mailing list message from Vladimir Ivanov on hotspot-dev:

And speaking of the overall approach (as it is implemented now), IMO
increased complexity doesn't worth it. If interface calls become a
bottleneck, the problem lies not in itable stub, but the overall design
which requires linear scan over itables. It's better to put the effort
there than micro-optimizing the stub.

Indeed. When I first came to HotSpot after working on GCJ for years
I was very surprised to see a linear scan used for interface dispatch.

FTR Erik? has been looking into rewriting virtual dispatch logic:

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8221828

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

The code improvements look to be fairly minor.

Mailing list message from Vladimir Ivanov on hotspot-dev:

????I?updated?my?test?cases?in?test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/vm/compiler/InterfaceCalls.java?.?My?tests?will?not?inline?interface?methods?and?most?cpu?are?used?by?itable_stub.
?every?test?will?run?10?warmup?iterations?and?5?measure?iterations?for?one?score.?I?took?3?score?for?every?test.
????Below?is?test?result?on?my?machines,?it?looks?slow?loop?has?more?improvement?than?origin?one.

Good,?thanks?for?the?numbers.?I'm?curious?have?you?observed?any
improvements?on?larger?scale?benchmarks?or?real?world?apps?

I'm?asking?because?linear?scan?is?already?far?from?optimal?when?there
are?many?superinterfaces?present.

Kevin: itable_stub was found hot on several online applications. So I
started to work on this. Now I don't have chance to verify it online. So
I uses microbenchmarks to verify. I will
test with some benchmarks.

That's unfortunate. It would be very helpful to confirm the results of
the micro-benchmarks (nano-, in this particular case).

????I?think?lookup_interface_method?can?be?reused?as?fast?path.?And?it?is?also?used?by?templateTable::invoke_interface?and?generate_method_handle_dispatch.
?My?implementation?in?slow?path?need?more?registers?(6?registers?so?far),?I?need?to?check?if?there's?register?conflict?in?these?methods.?I'd?like?to?keep?a?separate
?slow?path?implementation.?How?do?you?think?about?it?

Frankly?speaking,?I'd?like?to?avoid?the?duplication.

Kevin: Ok, I will try to merge them.

Also,?absence?of?guarantees?about?order?of?interfaces?in?the?itable
complicates?things:?REFC?and?DECC?can?be?encountered?in?arbitrary?order
and?the?pass?should?take?that?into?account.?For?example,?I?don't?see
early?exit?on?success?in?slow?variant,?so?every?lookup?has?to?go?through
the?whole?itable?irrespective?of?whether?it?succeeds?or?fails.?I
attribute?that?to?the?complications?induced?by?aforementioned?aspect.

Kevin: I use a counter for matching. If it reaches zero, the iteration
can exit early.

Good. Thanks for the clarification.

Alternatively, you could use 2 bits in the temp register to code the
state. IMO it's clearer and more robust w.r.t. possible bugs.

Or even explicitly encode the state in the code as an automaton by
generating 3 loop variants (check REFC + check DECC + check both).
But IMO it falls into over-engineering category :-)

Also, on naming: I find it hard to reason about the logic.
Registers are re-used for different purposes and the names don't help at
all (even adds to the confusion).

As an example:

movptr(method_result, Address(recv_klass, holder_klass,
Address::times_1));

And?speaking?of?the?overall?approach?(as?it?is?implemented?now),?IMO
increased?complexity?doesn't?worth?it.?If?interface?calls?become?a
bottleneck,?the?problem?lies?not?in?itable?stub,?but?the?overall?design
which?requires?linear?scan?over?itables.?It's?better?to?put?the?effort
there?than?micro-optimizing?the?stub.

Kevin: I agree we can improve itable design. My initial think is jvm may
reorder itable at safepoint. I can take it as a follow up optimization.

Well, I would definitely prefer to avoid additional runtime changes (to
sort interfaces in itables and verify their order later) just to support
minor improvements in itable stubs.

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

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To\:\?\?\(\?\?\) \<kuaiwei\.kw at alibaba\-inc\.com>\; hotspot\-dev
\<hotspot\-dev\-retn at openjdk\.java\.net>\; kuaiwei
\<github\.com\+1981974\+kuaiwei at openjdk\.java\.net>\; hotspot\-dev
\<hotspot\-dev at openjdk\.java\.net>\; hotspot\-compiler\-dev
\<hotspot\-compiler\-dev at openjdk\.java\.net>
Subject\:Re\: RFR\: 8253049\: Enhance itable\_stub for AArch64 and x86\_64


 >\?\?\?\?I\?updated\?my\?test\?cases\?in\?test\/micro\/org\/openjdk\/bench\/vm\/compiler\/InterfaceCalls\.java\?\.\?My\?tests\?will\?not\?inline\?interface\?methods\?and\?most\?cpu\?are\?used\?by\?itable\_stub\.
 >\?every\?test\?will\?run\?10\?warmup\?iterations\?and\?5\?measure\?iterations\?for\?one\?score\.\?I\?took\?3\?score\?for\?every\?test\.
 >\?\?\?\?Below\?is\?test\?result\?on\?my\?machines\,\?it\?looks\?slow\?loop\?has\?more\?improvement\?than\?origin\?one\.

Good\,\?thanks\?for\?the\?numbers\.\?I\'m\?curious\?have\?you\?observed\?any
improvements\?on\?larger\?scale\?benchmarks\?or\?real\?world\?apps\?

I\'m\?asking\?because\?linear\?scan\?is\?already\?far\?from\?optimal\?when\?there
are\?many\?superinterfaces\?present\.

 >\?\?\?\?I\?think\?lookup\_interface\_method\?can\?be\?reused\?as\?fast\?path\.\?And\?it\?is\?also\?used\?by\?templateTable\:\:invoke\_interface\?and\?generate\_method\_handle\_dispatch\.
 >\?My\?implementation\?in\?slow\?path\?need\?more\?registers\?\(6\?registers\?so\?far\)\,\?I\?need\?to\?check\?if\?there\'s\?register\?conflict\?in\?these\?methods\.\?I\'d\?like\?to\?keep\?a\?separate
 >\?slow\?path\?implementation\.\?How\?do\?you\?think\?about\?it\?

Frankly\?speaking\,\?I\'d\?like\?to\?avoid\?the\?duplication\.

Also\,\?absence\?of\?guarantees\?about\?order\?of\?interfaces\?in\?the\?itable
complicates\?things\:\?REFC\?and\?DECC\?can\?be\?encountered\?in\?arbitrary\?order
and\?the\?pass\?should\?take\?that\?into\?account\.\?For\?example\,\?I\?don\'t\?see
early\?exit\?on\?success\?in\?slow\?variant\,\?so\?every\?lookup\?has\?to\?go\?through

the\?whole\?itable\?irrespective\?of\?whether\?it\?succeeds\?or\?fails\.\?I
attribute\?that\?to\?the\?complications\?induced\?by\?aforementioned\?aspect\.

And\?speaking\?of\?the\?overall\?approach\?\(as\?it\?is\?implemented\?now\)\,\?IMO
increased\?complexity\?doesn\'t\?worth\?it\.\?If\?interface\?calls\?become\?a
bottleneck\,\?the\?problem\?lies\?not\?in\?itable\?stub\,\?but\?the\?overall\?design
which\?requires\?linear\?scan\?over\?itables\.\?It\'s\?better\?to\?put\?the\?effort
there\?than\?micro\-optimizing\?the\?stub\.

But\?I\'m\?happy\?to\?change\?my\?mind\?if\?the\?rewritten\?implementation\?makes\?it

easier\?to\?reason\?about\?the\?code\.

\(FTR\?subtype\?checks\?suffer\?from\?a\?similar\?problem\:\?unless
Klass\:\:\_secondary\_super\_cache\?catches\?it\,\?subtype\?check\?for\?an\?interface

does\?a\?linear\?scan\?over\?\_secondary\_supers\?array\.\)

Best\?regards\,
Vladimir\?Ivanov


 >\?\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-
 >\?From\:Vladimir\?Ivanov\?\<vladimir\.x\.ivanov at oracle\.com>
 >\?Send\?Time\:2020\?9\?14\?\(\?\?\?\)\?22\:10
 >\?To\:kuaiwei\?\<github\.com\+1981974\+kuaiwei at openjdk\.java\.net>\;\?hotspot\-dev\?\<hotspot\-dev at openjdk\.java\.net>\;\?hotspot\-compiler\-dev\?\<hotspot\-compiler\-dev at openjdk\.java\.net>
 >\?Subject\:Re\:\?RFR\:\?8253049\:\?Enhance\?itable\_stub\?for\?AArch64\?and\?x86\_64
 >
 >\?Hi\?Kevin\,
 >
 >\?Very\?interesting\?observations\.\?I\?like\?the\?idea\?to\?optimize\?for\?the\?case
 >\?when\?REFC\?\=\=\?DECC\.
 >
 >\?Fusing\?2\?passes\?over\?the\?itable\?into\?one\?does\?look\?attractive\,\?but\?I\'m
 >\?not\?sure\?the\?proposed\?variant\?is\?correct\.\?I\?suggest\?to\?split\?the\?patch
 >\?into\?2\?enhancements\?and\?handle\?them\?separately\.
 >
 >\?I\'m\?curious\?what\?kind\?of\?benchmarks\?you\?used\?and\?what\?are\?the
 >\?improvements\?observed\?with\?the\?patch\.
 >
 >\?One\?suggestion\?about\?the\?implementation\:
 >
 >\?src\/hotspot\/cpu\/x86\/macroAssembler\_x86\.cpp\:
 >
 >\?\+void\?MacroAssembler\:\:lookup\_interface\_method\_in\_stub\(Register\?recv\_klass\,
 >
 >\?I\'d\?like\?to\?avoid\?having\?2\?independent\?implementations\?of\?itable\?lookup
 >\?\(MacroAssembler\:\:lookup\_interface\_method\_in\_stub\(\)\?and
 >\?MacroAssembler\:\:lookup\_interface\_method\(\)\)\.\?It\?would\?be\?nice\?to\?keep\?the
 >\?implementation\?unified\?between\?itable\?and\?MethodHandle\?linkToInterface
 >\?linker\?stubs\.
 >
 >\?What\?MacroAssembler\:\:lookup\_interface\_method\(\.\.\.\,\?true
 >\?\/\*return\_method\*\/\)\?does\?is\?interface\?method\?lookup\?w\/o\?proper\?subtype
 >\?check\?and\?it\?is\?equivalent\?to\?fast\?loop\?in
 >\?MacroAssembler\:\:lookup\_interface\_method\_in\_stub\(\)\.
 >
 >\?As\?a\?possible\?path\?forward\,\?you\?could\?introduce\?the\?fast\?path\?check
 >\?first\?by\?moving\?the\?fast\?path\?check\?into
 >\?VtableStubs\:\:create\_itable\_stub\(\)\?and\?guard\?the\?first\?path\?over\?the
 >\?itable\.\?It\?would\?make\?the\?type\?checking\?pass\?over\?itable\?optional\?based
 >\?on\?runtime\?check\.
 >
 >\?Then\?you\?could\?refactor\?MacroAssembler\:\:lookup\_interface\_method\(\)\?to
 >\?optionally\?do\?REFC\?and\?DECC\?checks\?on\?every\?iteration\?and\?migrate
 >\?VtableStubs\:\:create\_itable\_stub\(\)\?\?and
 >\?MethodHandles\:\:generate\_method\_handle\_dispatch\(\)\?to\?it\.
 >
 >\?Best\?regards\,
 >\?Vladimir\?Ivanov
 >
 >\?On\?14\.09\.2020\?13\:52\,\?kuaiwei\?wrote\:
https\:\/\/webrevs\.openjdk\.java\.net\/\?repo\=jdk\&pr\=128\&range\=00
https\:\/\/git\.openjdk\.java\.net\/jdk\?pull\/128\/head\:pull\/128
 > 

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