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
Sjoerd Meijer