This change enables the use of RISCV's variable length vector registers for fixed length vectors in the IR, and implicitly enables various IR transforms which generate fixed length vectors if legal (e.g. LoopVectorize). Specifically, this enables fixed length vectors which are known to be inbounds of the underlying variable hardware size.
For context, remember that the +V extension provides a minimum VLEN of 128. The embedded variants provide lower minimums. The analogy here is essentially vectorizing for SSE on a machine which may or may not include AVX2/AVX512. We won't get full utilization by default, but we will get some benefit. And of course, with an explicit mcpu we can vectorize to the exact target hardware.
The LV impact is mostly related to vectorizer robustness. In cases we haven't yet fully implemented scalable vectorization support, we can fall back to fixed length vectorization.
SLP has been disabled for now, even when fixed vectors are enabled. See a310637 and associated review. There are a few addiitional code quality issues which need worked through before turning SLP on would be reasonable.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D131508
The vectoriser sometimes generates predicated vector loops using
the llvm.get.active.lane.mask intrinsic so it's important that we
are able to calculate a valid cost for the call instruction. When
SVE is enabled we are able to use a single whilelo instruction
for some vector types - in such cases I've marked the cost as 1.
For all other cases I've set the cost according to how the intrinsic
will be expanded.
Tests added here:
Analysis/CostModel/AArch64/sve-intrinsics.ll
Analysis/CostModel/ARM/active_lane_mask.ll
Analysis/CostModel/RISCV/active_lane_mask.ll
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121109
Philip Reames