We currently miss a number of opportunities to emit single-instruction
VMRG[LH][BHW] instructions for shuffles on little endian subtargets. Although
this in itself is not a huge performance opportunity since loading the permute
vector for a VPERM can always be pulled out of loops, producing such merge
instructions is useful to downstream optimizations.
Since VPERM is essentially opaque to all subsequent optimizations, we want to
avoid it as much as possible. Other permute instructions have semantics that can
be reasoned about much more easily in later optimizations.
This patch does the following:
- Canonicalize shuffles so that the first element comes from the first vector
(since that's what most of the mask matching functions want)
- Switch the elements that come from splat vectors so that they match the
corresponding elements from the other vector (to allow for merges)
- Adds debugging messages for when a shuffle is matched to a VPERM so that
anyone interested in improving this further can get the info for their code
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77448
There are a few patterns where we use a superclass for inputs to this
instruction rather than the correct class. This can sometimes lead to
unncessary copies.
We currently produce a load, followed by (possibly a move for integers and) a
splat as separate instructions. VSX has always had a splatting load for
doublewords, but as of Power9, we have it for words as well. This patch just
exploits these instructions.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63624
llvm-svn: 372139
This patch aims to improve the codegen for vector loads involving the
scalar_to_vector (load X) sequence. Initially, ld->mv instructions were used
for scalar_to_vector (load X), so this patch allows scalar_to_vector (load X)
to utilize:
LXSD and LXSDX for i64 and f64
LXSIWAX for i32 (sign extension to i64)
LXSIWZX for i32 and f64
Committing on behalf of Amy Kwan.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48950
llvm-svn: 339260
Currently we have a number of tests that fail with -verify-machineinstrs.
To detect this cases earlier we add the option to the testcases with the
exception of tests that will currently fail with this option. PR 27456 keeps
track of this failures.
No code review, as discussed with Hal Finkel.
llvm-svn: 277624
Chapter 3 of the QPX manual states that, "Scalar floating-point load
instructions, defined in the Power ISA, cause a replication of the source data
across all elements of the target register." Thus, if we have a load followed
by a QPX splat (from the first lane), the splat is redundant. This adds a late
MI-level pass to remove the redundant splats in some of these cases
(specifically when both occur in the same basic block).
This optimization is scheduled just prior to post-RA scheduling. It can't happen
before anything that might replace the load with some already-computed quantity
(i.e. store-to-load forwarding).
llvm-svn: 265047
Nemanja Ivanovic