The motivation here is to a) bring us closer into alignment with AArch64 under the assumption that codepath is better tested, and b) simplify pattern matching in an upcoming change.
The immediate impact is a significant IR reduction but a fairly minimal change in the generated assembly. Due to a difference in expansion behavior we get a saturating add vs an unsaturating one for the old code, but that's about it. This difference comes down to different handling of overflow, which doesn't seem to be possible here anyways, so the assembly codegen is arguably a minor regression. I don't expect that to matter in practice.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129221
When the loop vectoriser encounters a known low trip count it tries
to create a single predicated loop in order to get the benefit of
vectorisation and eliminate the scalar tail. However, until now the
vectoriser prevented the use of scalable vectors in this case due
to concerns in the past about stability. I believe that tail-folded
loops using scalable vectors are now sufficiently well tested that
we can enable this. For the same reason I've also enabled it when
optimising for code size too.
Tests added here:
Transforms/LoopVectorize/AArch64/sve-low-trip-count.ll
Transforms/LoopVectorize/AArch64/sve-tail-folding-optsize.ll
Transforms/LoopVectorize/RISCV/low-trip-count.ll
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121595
