Instead, represent the mask as out-of-line data in the instruction. This
should be more efficient in the places that currently use
getShuffleVector(), and paves the way for further changes to add new
shuffles for scalable vectors.
This doesn't change the syntax in textual IR. And I don't currently plan
to change the bitcode encoding in this patch, although we'll probably
need to do something once we extend shufflevector for scalable types.
I expect that once this is finished, we can then replace the raw "mask"
with something more appropriate for scalable vectors. Not sure exactly
what this looks like at the moment, but there are a few different ways
we could handle it. Maybe we could try to describe specific shuffles.
Or maybe we could define it in terms of a function to convert a fixed-length
array into an appropriate scalable vector, using a "step", or something
like that.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72467
These transforms rely on a vector reduction flag on the SDNode
set by SelectionDAGBuilder. This flag exists because SelectionDAG
can't see across basic blocks so SelectionDAGBuilder is looking
across and saving the info. X86 is the only target that uses this
flag currently. By removing the X86 code we can remove the flag
and the SelectionDAGBuilder code.
This pass adds a dedicated IR pass for X86 that looks across the
blocks and transforms the IR into a form that the X86 SelectionDAG
can finish.
An advantage of this new approach is that we can enhance it to
shrink the phi nodes and final reduction tree based on the zeroes
that we need to concatenate to bring the partially reduced
reduction back up to the original width.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76649
Eli Friedman