Use -0.0 instead of 0.0 as the start value. The previous use of 0.0
was fine for all existing uses of this function though, as it is
always generated with fast flags right now, and thus nsz.
This implements 2 different vectorisation fallback strategies if tail-folding
fails: 1) don't vectorise at all, or 2) vectorise using a scalar epilogue. This
can be controlled with option -prefer-predicate-over-epilogue, that has been
changed to take a numeric value corresponding to the tail-folding preference
and preferred fallback.
Patch by: Pierre van Houtryve, Sjoerd Meijer.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79783
The normal scheme for tail folding reductions is to use:
loop:
p = phi(0, a)
mask = ...
x = masked_load(..., mask)
a = add(x, p)
s = select(mask, a, p)
This means we need to keep the register p and a alive out of the loop, plus
the mask. On a target with predicated operations we can instead generate
the phi as p = phi(0, s). This ensures the select in the loop and we can
fold select(m, add(a, b), c) to something like a vaddt c, a, b using the
m predicate. This in turn allows us to tail predicate the entire loop.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D84741
Nikita Popov