lowering with a small addition to it and adding PSHUFB combining.
There is one obvious place in the new vector shuffle lowering where we
should form PSHUFBs directly: when without them we will unpack a vector
of i8s across two different registers and do a potentially 4-way blend
as i16s only to re-pack them into i8s afterward. This is the crazy
expensive fallback path for i8 shuffles and we can just directly use
pshufb here as it will always be cheaper (the unpack and pack are
two instructions so even a single shuffle between them hits our
three instruction limit for forming PSHUFB).
However, this doesn't generate very good code in many cases, and it
leaves a bunch of common patterns not using PSHUFB. So this patch also
adds support for extracting a shuffle mask from PSHUFB in the X86
lowering code, and uses it to handle PSHUFBs in the recursive shuffle
combining. This allows us to combine through them, combine multiple ones
together, and generally produce sufficiently high quality code.
Extracting the PSHUFB mask is annoyingly complex because it could be
either pre-legalization or post-legalization. At least this doesn't have
to deal with re-materialized constants. =] I've added decode routines to
handle the different patterns that show up at this level and we dispatch
through them as appropriate.
The two primary test cases are updated. For the v16 test case there is
still a lot of room for improvement. Since I was going through it
systematically I left behind a bunch of FIXME lines that I'm hoping to
turn into ALL lines by the end of this.
llvm-svn: 214628
instructions in the legalized DAG, and leverage it to combine long
sequences of instructions to PSHUFB.
Eventually, the other x86-instruction-specific shuffle combines will
probably all be driven out of this routine. But the real motivation is
to detect after we have fully legalized and optimized a shuffle to the
minimal number of x86 instructions whether it is profitable to replace
the chain with a fully generic PSHUFB instruction even though doing so
requires either a load from a constant pool or tying up a register with
the mask.
While the Intel manuals claim it should be used when it replaces 5 or
more instructions (!!!!) my experience is that it is actually very fast
on modern chips, and so I've gon with a much more aggressive model of
replacing any sequence of 3 or more instructions.
I've also taught it to do some basic canonicalization to special-purpose
instructions which have smaller encodings than their generic
counterparts.
There are still quite a few FIXMEs here, and I've not yet implemented
support for lowering blends with PSHUFB (where its power really shines
due to being able to zero out lanes), but this starts implementing real
PSHUFB support even when using the new, fancy shuffle lowering. =]
llvm-svn: 214042
Summary:
This allows it to fold pshufd instructions across intervening
half-shuffles and other noise. This pattern actually shows up in the
generic lowering tests, but I've also added direct tests using
intrinsics to make sure that the specific desired functionality is
working even if the lowering stuff changes in the future.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4292
llvm-svn: 211892
trivially redundant.
This fixes several cases in the new vector shuffle lowering algorithm
which would generate redundant shuffle instructions for the sake of
simplicity.
I'm also deleting a testcase which was somewhat ridiculous. It was
checking for a bug in 2007 about incorrectly transforming shuffles by
looking for the string "-86" in the output of a pretty substantial
function. This test case doesn't seem to have any value at this point.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4240
llvm-svn: 211889
x86 backend.
This sketches out a new code path for vector lowering, hidden behind an
off-by-default flag while it is under development. The fundamental idea
behind the new code path is to aggressively break down the problem space
in ways that ease selecting the odd set of instructions available on
x86, and carefully avoid scalarizing code even when forced to use older
ISAs. Notably, this starts off restricting itself to SSE2 and implements
the complete vector shuffle and blend space for 128-bit vectors in SSE2
without scalarizing. The plan is to layer on top of this ISA extensions
where we can bail out of the complex SSE2 lowering and opt for
a cheaper, specialized instruction (or set of instructions). It also
needs to be generalized to AVX and AVX512 vector widths.
Currently, this does a decent but not perfect job for SSE2. There are
some specific shortcomings that I plan to address:
- We need a peephole combine to fold together shuffles where possible.
There are cases where a previous shuffle could be modified slightly to
arrange for elements to be in the correct position and a later shuffle
eliminated. Doing this eagerly added quite a bit of complexity, and
so my plan is to combine away these redundancies afterward.
- There are a lot more clever ways to use unpck and pack that need to be
added. This is essential for real world shuffles as it turns out...
Once SSE2 is polished a bit I should be able to get interesting numbers
on performance improvements on benchmarks conducive to vectorization.
All of this will be off by default until it is functionally equivalent
of course.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4225
llvm-svn: 211888
Chandler Carruth