This patch corresponds to review:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D23155
This patch removes the VSHRC register class (based on D20310) and adds
exploitation of the Power9 sub-word integer loads into VSX registers as well
as vector sign extensions.
The new instructions are useful for a few purposes:
Int to Fp conversions of 1 or 2-byte values loaded from memory
Building vectors of 1 or 2-byte integers with values loaded from memory
Storing individual 1 or 2-byte elements from integer vectors
This patch implements all of those uses.
llvm-svn: 283190
Currently we have a number of tests that fail with -verify-machineinstrs.
To detect this cases earlier we add the option to the testcases with the
exception of tests that will currently fail with this option. PR 27456 keeps
track of this failures.
No code review, as discussed with Hal Finkel.
llvm-svn: 277624
This patch corresponds to review:
http://reviews.llvm.org/D20443
It changes the legalization strategy for illegal vector types from integer
promotion to widening. This only applies for vectors with elements of width
that is a multiple of a byte since we have hardware support for vectors with
1, 2, 3, 8 and 16 byte elements.
Integer promotion for vectors is quite expensive on PPC due to the sequence
of breaking apart the vector, extending the elements and reconstituting the
vector. Two of these operations are expensive.
This patch causes between minor and major improvements in performance on most
benchmarks. There are very few benchmarks whose performance regresses. These
regressions can be handled in a subsequent patch with a DAG combine (similar
to how this patch handles int -> fp conversions of illegal vector types).
llvm-svn: 274535
Nemanja Ivanovic