After some discussion and experimentation, we have seen that changing the default number of vector register bits to LMUL=2 strikes a sweet spot.
Whilst we could be clever here and make the vectorizer smarter about dynamically selecting an LMUL that
a) Doesn't affect register pressure
b) Suitable for the microarchitecture
we would need to teach its heuristics about RISC-V register grouping specifics.
Instead this just does the easy, pragmatic thing by changing the default to a safe value that doesn't affect register pressure signifcantly[1], but should increase throughput and unlock more interleaving.
[1] Register spilling when compiling sqlite at various levels of `-riscv-v-register-bit-width-lmul`:
LMUL=1 2573 spills
LMUL=2 2583 spills
LMUL=4 2819 spills
LMUL=8 3256 spills
Reviewed By: craig.topper
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D143723
It's less clear with scalable vectors than fixed length vectors that
interleaving exposes more ILP, as scalable vectors can be thought of a
sort of hardware form of interleaving, especially with larger LMULs.
This also addresses the unexpected additional unrolling that occurs when
using larger LMULs in the loop vectorizer.
Reviewed By: craig.topper
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D144485
This is a test for an upcoming patch that proposes to change the default LMUL used by the loop vectorizer from 1 to 2
Reviewed By: reames
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D143722
