This patch adds a new option to the LoopVectorizer to control how
scalable vectors can be used.
Initially, this suggests three levels to control scalable
vectorization, although other more aggressive options can be added in
the future.
The possible options are:
- Disabled: Disables vectorization with scalable vectors.
- Enabled: Vectorize loops using scalable vectors or fixed-width
vectors, but favors fixed-width vectors when the cost
is a tie.
- Preferred: Like 'Enabled', but favoring scalable vectors when the
cost-model is inconclusive.
Reviewed By: paulwalker-arm, vkmr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101945
This patch introduces a new class, MaxVFCandidates, that holds the
maximum vectorization factors that have been computed for both scalable
and fixed-width vectors.
This patch is intended to be NFC for fixed-width vectors, although
considering a scalable max VF (which is disabled by default) pessimises
tail-loop elimination, since it can no longer determine if any chosen VF
(less than fixed/scalable MaxVFs) is guaranteed to handle all vector
iterations if the trip-count is known. This issue will be addressed in
a future patch.
Reviewed By: fhahn, david-arm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98721
Sander de Smalen