Currently it's very difficult to improve the cost model for tail-folded
loops because as soon as you add a VPInstruction::computeCost function
that adds the costs of instructions such as
VPInstruction::ActiveLaneMask
and VPInstruction::ExplicitVectorLength the assert in
LoopVectorizationPlanner::computeBestVF fails for some tests. This is
because the VF chosen by the legacy cost model doesn't match the vplan
cost model. See PR #90191. This assert is currently making it difficult
to improve the cost model.
Hopefully we will be in a position to remove the assert soon, however
in order to do that we have to fix up a whole bunch of tests that rely
upon the legacy cost model output. I've tried my best to update
these tests to use vplan output instead.
There is still work needed for the VF=1 case because the vplan cost
model is not printed out in this case. I've not attempted to fix those
in this patch.
This patch implements getCFInstrCost TTI hook that mostly affects
LoopVectorizer decisions. It sets zero cost for PHI nodes and zero
throughput cost for branches (assuming that branches are likely to
be predicted). The implementation is similar to X86/AArch64/PowerPC
targets and reduces loop cost by excluding induction PHIs/loop latch
branches, which in turn leads to selecting smaller vectorization
factor.
This patch implements getArithmeticInstrCost for RISCV, supports cost
model for integer and float vector arithmetic instructions.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133552 (Original patch by jacquesguan. Subset by me with todos added.)
