There's a potential motivating case to increase this limit in PR47191:
http://bugs.llvm.org/PR47191
But first we should make it less hacky. The limit in InstCombine is directly tied
to this value because an increase there can cause asserts in the underlying value
tracking calls if not changed together. The usage in VectorUtils is independent,
but the comment suggests that we should use the same value unless there's a known
reason to diverge. There are similar limits in codegen analysis, but I think we
should leave those independent in case we intentionally want the optimization
power/cost to be different there.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86113
6f3511a01a