This is an alternative of D120395 and D120411.
Previously we use `__bfloat16` as a typedef of `unsigned short`. The
name may give user an impression it is a brand new type to represent
BF16. So that they may use it in arithmetic operations and we don't have
a good way to block it.
To solve the problem, we introduced `__bf16` to X86 psABI and landed the
support in Clang by D130964. Now we can solve the problem by switching
intrinsics to the new type.
Reviewed By: LuoYuanke, RKSimon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D132329
This stops reporting CostPerUse 1 for `R8`-`R15` and `XMM8`-`XMM31`.
This was previously done because instruction encoding require a REX
prefix when using them resulting in longer instruction encodings. I
found that this regresses the quality of the register allocation as the
costs impose an ordering on eviction candidates. I also feel that there
is a bit of an impedance mismatch as the actual costs occure when
encoding instructions using those registers, but the order of VReg
assignments is not primarily ordered by number of Defs+Uses.
I did extensive measurements with the llvm-test-suite wiht SPEC2006 +
SPEC2017 included, internal services showed similar patterns. Generally
there are a log of improvements but also a lot of regression. But on
average the allocation quality seems to improve at a small code size
regression.
Results for measuring static and dynamic instruction counts:
Dynamic Counts (scaled by execution frequency) / Optimization Remarks:
Spills+FoldedSpills -5.6%
Reloads+FoldedReloads -4.2%
Copies -0.1%
Static / LLVM Statistics:
regalloc.NumSpills mean -1.6%, geomean -2.8%
regalloc.NumReloads mean -1.7%, geomean -3.1%
size..text mean +0.4%, geomean +0.4%
Static / LLVM Statistics:
mean -2.2%, geomean -3.1%) regalloc.NumSpills
mean -2.6%, geomean -3.9%) regalloc.NumReloads
mean +0.6%, geomean +0.6%) size..text
Static / LLVM Statistics:
regalloc.NumSpills mean -3.0%
regalloc.NumReloads mean -3.3%
size..text mean +0.3%, geomean +0.3%
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133902
The main difference is that this preserves intermediate rounding steps,
which the other route doesn't. This aligns bfloat16 more with half
floats, which use this path on most targets.
I didn't understand what the difference was between these softening
approaches when I first added bfloat lowerings, would be nice if we only
had one of them.
Based on @pengfei 's D131502
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133207
This is modeled after the half-precision fp support. Two new nodes are
introduced for casting from and to bf16. Since casting from bf16 is a
simple operation I opted to always directly lower it to integer
arithmetic. The other way round is more complicated if you want to
preserve IEEE semantics, so it's handled by a new __truncsfbf2
compiler-rt builtin.
This is of course very bare bones, but sufficient to get a semi-softened
fadd on x86.
Possible future improvements:
- Targets with bf16 conversion instructions can now make fp_to_bf16 legal
- The software conversion to bf16 can be replaced by a trivial
implementation under fast math.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126953
