of normally binary shuffle instructions like PUNPCKL and MOVLHPS.
This detects cases where a single register is used for both operands
making the shuffle behave in a unary way. We detect this and adjust the
mask to use the unary form which allows the existing DAG combine for
shuffle instructions to actually work at all.
As a consequence, this uncovered a number of obvious bugs in the
existing DAG combine which are fixed. It also now canonicalizes several
shuffles even with the existing lowering. These typically are trying to
match the shuffle to the domain of the input where before we only really
modeled them with the floating point variants. All of the cases which
change to an integer shuffle here have something in the integer domain, so
there are no more or fewer domain crosses here AFAICT. Technically, it
might be better to go from a GPR directly to the floating point domain,
but detecting floating point *outputs* despite integer inputs is a lot
more code and seems unlikely to be worthwhile in practice. If folks are
seeing domain-crossing regressions here though, let me know and I can
hack something up to fix it.
Also as a consequence, a bunch of missed opportunities to form pshufb
now can be formed. Notably, splats of i8s now form pshufb.
Interestingly, this improves the existing splat lowering too. We go from
3 instructions to 1. Yes, we may tie up a register, but it seems very
likely to be worth it, especially if splatting the 0th byte (the
common case) as then we can use a zeroed register as the mask.
llvm-svn: 214625
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
has settled without incident, removing the x86-specific and overly
strict 'isVectorSplat' routine in favor of generic and more powerful
splat detection.
The primary motivation and result of this is that the x86 backend can
now see through splats which contain undef elements. This is essential
if we are using a widening form of legalization and I've updated a test
case to also run in that mode as before this change the generated code
for the test case was completely scalarized.
This version of the patch much more carefully handles the undef lanes.
- We aren't overly conservative about them in the shift lowering
(where we will never use the splat itself).
- One place where the splat would have been re-used by the existing code
now explicitly constructs a new constant splat that will be safe.
- The broadcast lowering is much more reasonable with undefs by doing
a correct check of whether the splat is the only user of a loaded
value, checking that the splat actually crosses multiple lanes before
using a broadcast, and handling broadcasts of non-constant splats.
As a consequence of the last bullet, the weird usage of vpshufd instead
of vbroadcast is gone, and we actually can lower an AVX splat with
vbroadcastss where before we emitted a really strange pattern of
a vector load and a manual splat across the vector.
llvm-svn: 212602
This catches many cases where we can emit a more efficient shuffle for a
specific mask or when the mask contains undefs. Once the splat is lowered to
unpacks we can't do that anymore.
There is a possibility of moving the promotion after pshufb matching, but I'm
not sure if pshufb with a mask loaded from memory is faster than 3 shuffles, so
I avoided that for now.
llvm-svn: 173569
This also enables domain swizzling for AVX code which required a few
trivial test changes.
The pass will be moved to lib/CodeGen shortly.
llvm-svn: 140659
vinsertf128 $1 + vpermilps $0, remove the old code that used to first
do the splat in a 128-bit vector and then insert it into a larger one.
This is better because the handling code gets simpler and also makes a
better room for the upcoming vbroadcast!
llvm-svn: 137807
Chandler Carruth