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
Define an option -riscv-vector-bits-max to specify the maximum vector
bits for vectorizer. Loop vectorizer will use the value to check if it
is safe to use the whole vector registers to vectorize the loop.
It is not the optimum solution for loop vectorizing for scalable vector.
It assumed the whole vector registers will be used to vectorize the code.
If it is possible, we should configure vl to do vectorize instead of
using whole vector registers.
We only consider LMUL = 1 in this patch.
This patch just an initial work for loop vectorizer for RISC-V Vector.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D95659
Sander de Smalen