We are going to remove the old 'perfect shuffle' optimization since it
brings performance penalty in hot loop around vectors. For example, in
following loop sharing the same mask:
%v.1 = shufflevector ... <0,1,2,3,8,9,10,11,16,17,18,19,24,25,26,27>
%v.2 = shufflevector ... <0,1,2,3,8,9,10,11,16,17,18,19,24,25,26,27>
The generated instructions will be `vmrglw-vmrghw-vmrglw-vmrghw` instead
of `vperm-vperm`. In some large loop cases, this causes 20%+ performance
penalty.
The original attempt to resolve this is to pre-record masks of every
shufflevector operation in DAG, but that is somewhat complex and brings
unnecessary computation (to scan all nodes) in optimization. Here we
disable it by default. There're indeed some cases becoming worse after
this, which will be fixed in a more careful way in future patches.
Reviewed By: jsji
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121082
VSX introduced some permute instructions that are direct
replacements for Altivec ones except they can target all
the VSX registers. We have added code generation for most
of these but somehow missed the low/hi word merges (XXMRG[LH]W).
This caused some additional spills on some large
computationally intensive code.
This patch simply adds the missed patterns.
This patch removes the uneccessary mf/mtvsr generated in conjunction
with xscvdpsxws/xscvdpuxws.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109902
