This patch adds metadata to disable runtime unrolling to the vectorized
loop. If runtime unrolling/interleaving is considered profitable, LV
will interleave the loop directly. There should be no need to perform
runtime unrolling at a later stage.
Note that we already add metadata to disable runtime unrolling to the
scalar loop after vectorization.
The additional unrolling unnecessarily increases code size and compile
time. In addition to that we have several bug reports of unncessary
runtime unrolling for vectorized loops, e.g. PR40961
Compile-time improvements:
NewPM-O3: -1.04%
NewPM-ReleaseThinLTO: -0.59%
NewPM-ReleaseLTO-g: -0.97%
https://llvm-compile-time-tracker.com/compare.php?from=ce1be13a868d0f8afa367975558c1a6175cce33a&to=78bc2e67f22e9e10e61cdb6cdac4bb857d95eb1b&stat=instructions:uFixes#40306.
Reviewed By: lebedev.ri, nikic
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D115261
This reverts commit 77a0da926c9ea86afa9baf28158d79c7678fc6b9 as we've
received multiple reports of this significantly impacting performance,
in ways that don't seem to just be target specific cost models going
wrong. I would offer some reproducers, but the test changes here seem to
be full of them!
Reverting for now and hopefully we can remove the "hack" more carefully
as we go.
D43208 extracted `useEmulatedMaskMemRefHack()` from legality into cost model.
What it essentially does is prevents scalarized vectorization of masked memory operations:
```
// TODO: Cost model for emulated masked load/store is completely
// broken. This hack guides the cost model to use an artificially
// high enough value to practically disable vectorization with such
// operations, except where previously deployed legality hack allowed
// using very low cost values. This is to avoid regressions coming simply
// from moving "masked load/store" check from legality to cost model.
// Masked Load/Gather emulation was previously never allowed.
// Limited number of Masked Store/Scatter emulation was allowed.
```
While i don't really understand about what specifically `is completely broken`
was talking about, i believe that at least on X86 with AVX2-or-later,
this is no longer true. (or at least, i would like to know what is still broken).
So i would like to follow suit after D111460, and like wise disable that hack for AVX2+.
But since this was added for X86 specifically, let's just instead completely remove this hack.
Reviewed By: RKSimon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D114779
This implements 2 different vectorisation fallback strategies if tail-folding
fails: 1) don't vectorise at all, or 2) vectorise using a scalar epilogue. This
can be controlled with option -prefer-predicate-over-epilogue, that has been
changed to take a numeric value corresponding to the tail-folding preference
and preferred fallback.
Patch by: Pierre van Houtryve, Sjoerd Meijer.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79783
If a loop has a constant trip count known to be a multiple of MaxVF (times user
UF), LV infers that no tail will be generated for any chosen VF. This relies on
the chosen VF's being powers of 2 bound by MaxVF, and assumes MaxVF is a power
of 2. Make sure the latter holds, in particular when MaxVF is set by a memory
dependence distance which may not be a power of 2.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D80491
