Sequence is an important transform combination primitive that just indicates
transform ops being applied in a row. The simplest version requires fails
immediately if any transformation in the sequence fails. Introducing this
operation allows one to start placing transform IR within other IR.
Depends On D123135
Reviewed By: Mogball, rriddle
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123664
This dialect provides operations that can be used to control transformation of
the IR using a different portion of the IR. It refers to the IR being
transformed as payload IR, and to the IR guiding the transformation as
transform IR.
The main use case for this dialect is orchestrating fine-grain transformations
on individual operations or sets thereof. For example, it may involve finding
loop-like operations with specific properties (e.g., large size) in the payload
IR, applying loop tiling to those and only those operations, and then applying
loop unrolling to the inner loops produced by the previous transformations. As
such, it is not intended as a replacement for the pass infrastructure, nor for
the pattern rewriting infrastructure. In the most common case, the transform IR
will be processed and applied to payload IR by a pass. Transformations
expressed by the transform dialect may be implemented using the pattern
infrastructure or any other relevant MLIR component.
This dialect is designed to be extensible, that is, clients of this dialect are
allowed to inject additional operations into this dialect using the newly
introduced in this patch `TransformDialectExtension` mechanism. This allows the
dialect to avoid a dependency on the implementation of the transformation as
well as to avoid introducing dialect-specific transform dialects.
See https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-interfaces-and-dialects-for-precise-ir-transformation-control/60927.
Reviewed By: nicolasvasilache, Mogball, rriddle
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123135
