With commit https://reviews.llvm.org/D152366 I introduced functionality
that permitted the hoisting of runtime memory checks from a vectorised
inner loop to the preheader of the next outer-most loop. This is useful
for benchmarks like SPEC2017's x264 where the inner loop is vectorised
and only has a small trip count. In such cases the runtime memory checks
become expensive and since the checks never fail in the case of x264 it
makes sense to do this. However, this behaviour was controlled by the
flag -hoist-runtime-checks which was off by default.
This patch enables this flag by default for all targets, since I believe
this is a generally beneficial thing to do. I have tested this with
SPEC2017 and I see 2.3% and 2.6% improvements with x264 on neoverse-v1
and neoverse-n1, respectively. Similarly, I saw slight improvements in
the overall geomean on both machines. The only other notable changes
were a 1% drop in the roms benchmark, which was compensated for by a 1%
improvement in fotonik3d.
Instead of expanding the src/sink SCEV expressions and emitting an IR
sub to compute the difference, the subtraction can be directly be
performed by ScalarEvolution. This allows the subtraction to be
simplified by SCEV, which in turn can reduced the number of redundant
runtime check instructions generated.
It also allows to generate checks that are invariant w.r.t. an outer
loop, if he inner loop AddRecs have the same outer loop AddRec as start.
Add a test case where the AddRec for the pointers in the inner loop
have the AddRec of the outer loop as start value.
It is sufficient to subtract the start values (%dst, %src) of the outer
AddRecs. This simplification will be done in a follow-up commit.
The simpler diff-checks require pointers with add-recs from the same
innermost loop, but this property wasn't check completely. Add the
missing check to ensure both addrecs are in the innermost loop.
Fixes#57315.
Add a variation of @nested_loop_outer_iv_addrec_invariant_in_inner with
the dependence sink and source swapped to extend test coverage.
Also simplifies the test by removing an unneeded reduction.
This patch adds initial support for a pointer diff based runtime check
scheme for vectorization. This scheme requires fewer computations and
checks than the existing full overlap checking, if it is applicable.
The main idea is to only check if source and sink of a dependency are
far enough apart so the accesses won't overlap in the vector loop. To do
so, it is sufficient to compute the difference and compare it to the
`VF * UF * AccessSize`. It is sufficient to check
`(Sink - Src) <u VF * UF * AccessSize` to rule out a backwards
dependence in the vector loop with the given VF and UF. If Src >=u Sink,
there is not dependence preventing vectorization, hence the overflow
should not matter and using the ULT should be sufficient.
Note that the initial version is restricted in multiple ways:
1. Pointers must only either be read or written, by a single
instruction (this allows re-constructing source/sink for
dependences with the available information)
2. Source and sink pointers must be add-recs, with matching steps
3. The step must be a constant.
3. abs(step) == AccessSize.
Most of those restrictions can be relaxed in the future.
See https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/53590.
Reviewed By: dmgreen
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D119078
