This is purely so that we can expose and work through downstream codegen issues. My intention is to see if we can get this disabled by default, but that requires fixing a bunch of downstream issues first.
(JFYI - This has been heavily reframed since original attempt at landing.)
This change updates the InductionDescriptor logic to allow matching a pointer IV with a non-constant stride, but also updates the LoopVectorizer to bailout on such descriptors by default. This preserves the default vectorizer behavior.
In review, it was pointed out that there's multiple unfortunate performance implications which need to be addressed before this can be enabled. Having a flag allows us to exercise the behavior, and write test cases for logic which is otherwise unreachable (or hard to reach).
This will also enable non-constant stride pointer recurrences for other consumers. I've audited said code, and don't see any obvious issues.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D147336
Generally, the cost of a memory op will scale with the number of vector registers accessed. Machines might exist which have a narrow memory access than vector register width, but machines with a wider memory access width than vector register width seem unlikely.
I noticed this because we were preferring wide loads + deinterleaves on examples where the cost of a short gather (actually a strided load) would be better. Touching 8 vector registers instead of doing a 4 element gather is not a good tradeoff.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D147470
Multiple errors have being reported on
https://reviews.llvm.org/rG498aa534f472d28db893aa9a8627d0b46e17f312
Reverting until the correctness issues can be resolved.
We are also seeing a lot of performance differences from the patch. Some are
looking good, but some are looking pretty bad.
This matches the handling for integer IVs. I left the non-opaque cases alone, mostly because they're largely irrelevant today.
This doesn't actually make much difference in vectorization right now as we immediately fail on aliasing checks (which also bail on non-constant strides). Slightly suprisingly, it's the case which *do* need runtime checks which work after this patch as they don't use the same dependency analysis path.
This will also enable non-constant stride pointer recurrences for other consumers. I've auditted said code, and don't see any obvious issues.
