There are some VectorShuffle Nodes in SDAG which can be selected to XXSLDWI
instruction, this patch recognizes them and does the selection to improve the
PPC performance.
llvm-svn: 303822
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/D21358
Vector shifts that have the same semantics as a vector swap are cannonicalized
as such to provide additional opportunities for swap removal optimization to
remove unnecessary swaps.
llvm-svn: 275168
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
LowerVECTOR_SHUFFLE needs to decide whether to pass a vector shuffle off to the
TableGen-generated matching code, and it does this by testing the same
predicates used by the TableGen files. Unfortunately, when we added new
P8Altivec-only predicates, we started universally testing them in
LowerVECTOR_SHUFFLE, and if then matched when targeting a system prior to a P8,
we'd end up with a selection failure.
llvm-svn: 246675
Tony Jiang