target/riscv/vector_helper.c: skip set tail when vta is zero

The function is a no-op if 'vta' is zero but we're still doing a lot of
stuff in this function regardless. vext_set_elems_1s() will ignore every
single time (since vta is zero) and we just wasted time.

Skip it altogether in this case. Aside from the code simplification
there's a noticeable emulation performance gain by doing it. For a
regular C binary that does a vectors operation like this:

=======
 #define SZ 10000000

int main ()
{
  int *a = malloc (SZ * sizeof (int));
  int *b = malloc (SZ * sizeof (int));
  int *c = malloc (SZ * sizeof (int));

  for (int i = 0; i < SZ; i++)
    c[i] = a[i] + b[i];
  return c[SZ - 1];
}
=======

Emulating it with qemu-riscv64 and RVV takes ~0.3 sec:

$ time ~/work/qemu/build/qemu-riscv64 \
    -cpu rv64,debug=false,vext_spec=v1.0,v=true,vlen=128 ./foo.out

real    0m0.303s
user    0m0.281s
sys     0m0.023s

With this skip we take ~0.275 sec:

$ time ~/work/qemu/build/qemu-riscv64 \
    -cpu rv64,debug=false,vext_spec=v1.0,v=true,vlen=128 ./foo.out

real    0m0.274s
user    0m0.252s
sys     0m0.019s

This performance gain adds up fast when executing heavy benchmarks like
SPEC.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>
Acked-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Weiwei Li <liweiwei@iscas.ac.cn>
Message-Id: <20230427205708.246679-2-dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>

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