Currently in LoopVectorize we avoid tail-folding if we can
prove the trip count is always a multiple of the maximum
fixed-width VF. This works because we know the vectoriser
only ever chooses a VF that is a power of 2. However, if
we are also considering scalable VFs then we conservatively
bail out of the optimisation because we don't know the value
of vscale, which could be an odd or prime number, etc.
This patch tries to enable the same optimisation for scalable
VFs by asking if vscale is known to be a power of 2. If so,
we can then query the maximum value of vscale and use the same
logic as we do for fixed-width VFs. I've also added a new TTI
hook called isVScaleKnownToBeAPowerOfTwo that does the same
thing as the existing TargetLowering hook.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D146199
The availability of SVE should be sufficient to enable scalable
auto-vectorization.
This patch adds a new TTI interface to query the target what style of
vectorization it wants when scalable vectors are available. For other
targets than AArch64, this currently defaults to 'FixedWidthOnly'.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D115651
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
This patch introduces a new class, MaxVFCandidates, that holds the
maximum vectorization factors that have been computed for both scalable
and fixed-width vectors.
This patch is intended to be NFC for fixed-width vectors, although
considering a scalable max VF (which is disabled by default) pessimises
tail-loop elimination, since it can no longer determine if any chosen VF
(less than fixed/scalable MaxVFs) is guaranteed to handle all vector
iterations if the trip-count is known. This issue will be addressed in
a future patch.
Reviewed By: fhahn, david-arm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98721
