For tight loops like this:
float r = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
r += a[i];
}
it's better not to vectorise at -O3 using fixed-width ordered reductions
on AArch64 targets. Although the resulting number of instructions in the
generated code ends up being comparable to not vectorising at all, there
may be additional costs on some CPUs, for example perhaps the scheduling
is worse. It makes sense to deter vectorisation in tight loops.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D108292
I'm renaming the flag because a future patch will add a new
enableOrderedReductions() TTI interface and so the meaning of this
flag will change to be one of forcing the target to enable/disable
them. Also, since other places in LoopVectorize.cpp use the word
'Ordered' instead of 'strict' I changed the flag to match.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D107264
I have added a new FastMathFlags parameter to getArithmeticReductionCost
to indicate what type of reduction we are performing:
1. Tree-wise. This is the typical fast-math reduction that involves
continually splitting a vector up into halves and adding each
half together until we get a scalar result. This is the default
behaviour for integers, whereas for floating point we only do this
if reassociation is allowed.
2. Ordered. This now allows us to estimate the cost of performing
a strict vector reduction by treating it as a series of scalar
operations in lane order. This is the case when FP reassociation
is not permitted. For scalable vectors this is more difficult
because at compile time we do not know how many lanes there are,
and so we use the worst case maximum vscale value.
I have also fixed getTypeBasedIntrinsicInstrCost to pass in the
FastMathFlags, which meant fixing up some X86 tests where we always
assumed the vector.reduce.fadd/mul intrinsics were 'fast'.
New tests have been added here:
Analysis/CostModel/AArch64/reduce-fadd.ll
Analysis/CostModel/AArch64/sve-intrinsics.ll
Transforms/LoopVectorize/AArch64/strict-fadd-cost.ll
Transforms/LoopVectorize/AArch64/sve-strict-fadd-cost.ll
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105432
David Sherwood