On Thu, 5 Sep 2024 08:34:36 GMT, Jatin Bhateja <jbhat...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi All,
>> 
>> As per the discussion on panama-dev mailing list[1], patch adds the support 
>> following new vector operators.
>> 
>> 
>>      . SUADD   : Saturating unsigned addition.
>>      . SADD    : Saturating signed addition. 
>>      . SUSUB   : Saturating unsigned subtraction.
>>      . SSUB    : Saturating signed subtraction.
>>      . UMAX    : Unsigned max
>>      . UMIN    : Unsigned min.
>>      
>> 
>> New vector operators are applicable to only integral types since their 
>> values wraparound in over/underflowing scenarios after setting appropriate 
>> status flags. For floating point types, as per IEEE 754 specs there are 
>> multiple schemes to handler underflow, one of them is gradual underflow 
>> which transitions the value to subnormal range. Similarly, overflow 
>> implicitly saturates the floating-point value to an Infinite value.
>> 
>> As the name suggests, these are saturating operations, i.e. the result of 
>> the computation is strictly capped by lower and upper bounds of the result 
>> type and is not wrapped around in underflowing or overflowing scenarios.
>> 
>> Summary of changes:
>> - Java side implementation of new vector operators.
>> - Add new scalar saturating APIs for each of the above saturating vector 
>> operator in corresponding primitive box classes, fallback implementation of 
>> vector operators is based over it.
>> - C2 compiler IR and inline expander changes.
>> - Optimized x86 backend implementation for new vector operators and their 
>> predicated counterparts.
>> - Extends existing VectorAPI Jtreg test suite to cover new operations.
>> 
>> Kindly review and share your feedback.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> PS: Intrinsification and auto-vectorization of new core-lib API will be 
>> addressed separately in a follow-up patch.
>> 
>> [1] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/panama-dev/2024-May/020408.html
>
> Jatin Bhateja has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Some cleanups.

Just a few quick remarks.

src/hotspot/share/opto/vectornode.hpp line 188:

> 186: };
> 187: 
> 188: 

Suprious newline, please remove
Suggestion:

src/jdk.incubator.vector/share/classes/jdk/incubator/vector/VectorMathUtils.java
 line 78:

> 76:      * @since 24
> 77:      */
> 78:     public static long addSaturating(long a, long b) {

Are these public methods any Java dev could use? If so: do we have tests for 
them?

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Changes requested by epeter (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20507#pullrequestreview-2283248252
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20507#discussion_r1745655940
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20507#discussion_r1745665600

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