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
After D98856 these tests will by default break (fatal_error) if any of
the wrong interfaces are used, so there's no longer a need to have a
RUN line that checks for a warning message emitted by the compiler.
There are certain loops like this below:
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
a[i] = b[i] + 1;
*inv = a[i];
}
that can only be vectorised if we are able to extract the last lane of the
vectorised form of 'a[i]'. For fixed width vectors this already works since
we know at compile time what the final lane is, however for scalable vectors
this is a different story. This patch adds support for extracting the last
lane from a scalable vector using a runtime determined lane value. I have
added support to VPIteration for runtime-determined lanes that still permit
the caching of values. I did this by introducing a new class called VPLane,
which describes the lane we're dealing with and provides interfaces to get
both the compile-time known lane and the runtime determined value. Whilst
doing this work I couldn't find any explicit tests for extracting the last
lane values of fixed width vectors so I added tests for both scalable and
fixed width vectors.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D95139
Sander de Smalen