re-combining shuffles because nothing was available in the wider vector
type.
The key observation (which I've put in the comments for future
maintainers) is that at this point, no further combining is really
possible. And so even though these shuffles trivially could be combined,
we need to actually do that as we produce them when producing them this
late in the lowering.
This fixes another (huge) part of the Halide vector shuffle regressions.
As it happens, this was already well covered by the tests, but I hadn't
noticed how bad some of these got. The specific patterns that turn
directly into unpckl/h patterns were occurring *many* times in common
vector processing code.
There are still more problems here sadly, but trying to incrementally
tease them apart and it looks like this is the core of the problem in
the splitting logic.
There is some chance of regression here, you can see it in the test
changes. Specifically, where we stop forming pshufb in some cases, it is
possible that pshufb was in fact faster. Intel "says" that pshufb is
slower than the instruction sequences replacing it.
llvm-svn: 221852
VPBROADCAST.
This has the somewhat expected pervasive impact. I don't know why
I forgot about this. Everything seems good with lots of significant
improvements in the tests.
llvm-svn: 218724
shuffle tests to match that used in the script I posted and now used
consistently in 128-bit tests.
Nothing interesting changing here, just using the label name as the
FileCheck label and a slightly more general comment marker consumption
strategy.
llvm-svn: 218709
a flawed direction and causing miscompiles. Read on for details.
Fundamentally, the premise of this patch series was to map
VECTOR_SHUFFLE DAG nodes into VSELECT DAG nodes for all blends because
we are going to *have* to lower to VSELECT nodes for some blends to
trigger the instruction selection patterns of variable blend
instructions. This doesn't actually work out so well.
In order to match performance with the existing VECTOR_SHUFFLE
lowering code, we would need to re-slice the blend in order to fit it
into either the integer or floating point blends available on the ISA.
When coming from VECTOR_SHUFFLE (or other vNi1 style VSELECT sources)
this works well because the X86 backend ensures that these types of
operands to VSELECT get sign extended into '-1' and '0' for true and
false, allowing us to re-slice the bits in whatever granularity without
changing semantics.
However, if the VSELECT condition comes from some other source, for
example code lowering vector comparisons, it will likely only have the
required bit set -- the high bit. We can't blindly slice up this style
of VSELECT. Reid found some code using Halide that triggers this and I'm
hopeful to eventually get a test case, but I don't need it to understand
why this is A Bad Idea.
There is another aspect that makes this approach flawed. When in
VECTOR_SHUFFLE form, we have very distilled information that represents
the *constant* blend mask. Converting back to a VSELECT form actually
can lose this information, and so I think now that it is better to treat
this as VECTOR_SHUFFLE until the very last moment and only use VSELECT
nodes for instruction selection purposes.
My plan is to:
1) Clean up and formalize the target pre-legalization DAG combine that
converts a VSELECT with a constant condition operand into
a VECTOR_SHUFFLE.
2) Remove any fancy lowering from VSELECT during *legalization* relying
entirely on the DAG combine to catch cases where we can match to an
immediate-controlled blend instruction.
One additional step that I'm not planning on but would be interested in
others' opinions on: we could add an X86ISD::VSELECT or X86ISD::BLENDV
which encodes a fully legalized VSELECT node. Then it would be easy to
write isel patterns only in terms of this to ensure VECTOR_SHUFFLE
legalization only ever forms the fully legalized construct and we can't
cycle between it and VSELECT combining.
llvm-svn: 218658
nodes, and rely exclusively on its logic. This removes a ton of
duplication from the blend lowering and centralizes it in one place.
One downside is that it requires a bunch of hacks to make this work with
the current legalization framework. We have to manually speculate one
aspect of legalizing VSELECT nodes to get everything to work nicely
because the existing legalization framework isn't *actually* bottom-up.
The other grossness is that we somewhat duplicate the analysis of
constant blends. I'm on the fence here. If reviewers thing this would
look better with VSELECT when it has constant operands dumping over tho
VECTOR_SHUFFLE, we could go that way. But it would be a substantial
change because currently all of the actual blend instructions are
matched via patterns in the TD files based around VSELECT nodes (despite
them not being perfect fits for that). Suggestions welcome, but at least
this removes the rampant duplication in the backend.
llvm-svn: 218600
lowerings.
This was hopelessly broken. First, the x86 backend wants '-1' to be the
element value representing true in a boolean vector, and second the
operand order for VSELECT is backwards from the actual x86 instructions.
To make matters worse, the backend is just using '-1' as the true value
to get the high bit to be set. It doesn't actually symbolically map the
'-1' to anything. But on x86 this isn't quite how it works: there *only*
the high bit is relevant. As a consequence weird non-'-1' values like
0x80 actually "work" once you flip the operands to be backwards.
Anyways, thanks to Hal for helping me sort out what these *should* be.
llvm-svn: 218582
256-bit vectors with lane-crossing.
Rather than immediately decomposing to 128-bit vectors, try flipping the
256-bit vector lanes, shuffling them and blending them together. This
reduces our worst case shuffle by a pretty significant margin across the
board.
llvm-svn: 218446
missing test cases for it.
Unsurprisingly, without test cases, there were bugs here. Surprisingly,
this bug wasn't caught at compile time. Yep, there is an X86ISD::BLENDV.
It isn't wired to anything. Oops. I'll fix than next.
llvm-svn: 218434
lowering.
This also implements the fancy blend lowering for v16i16 using AVX2 and
teaches the X86 backend to print shuffle masks for 256-bit PSHUFB
and PBLENDW instructions. It also makes the mask decoding correct for
PBLENDW instructions. The yaks, they are legion.
Tests are updated accordingly. There are some missing tests for the
VBLENDVB lowering, but I'll add those in a follow-up as this commit has
accumulated enough cruft already.
llvm-svn: 218430
pool data being loaded into a vector register.
The comments take the form of:
# ymm0 = [a,b,c,d,...]
# xmm1 = <x,y,z...>
The []s are used for generic sequential data and the <>s are used for
specifically ConstantVector loads. Undef elements are printed as the
letter 'u', integers in decimal, and floating point values as floating
point values. Suggestions on improving the formatting or other aspects
of the display are very welcome.
My primary use case for this is to be able to FileCheck test masks
passed to vector shuffle instructions in-register. It isn't fantastic
for that (no decoding special zeroing semantics or other tricks), but it
at least puts the mask onto an instruction line that could reasonably be
checked. I've updated many of the new vector shuffle lowering tests to
leverage this in their test cases so that we're actually checking the
shuffle masks remain as expected.
Before implementing this, I tried a *bunch* of different approaches.
I looked into teaching the MCInstLower code to scan up the basic block
and find a definition of a register used in a shuffle instruction and
then decode that, but this seems incredibly brittle and complex.
I talked to Hal a lot about the "right" way to do this: attach the raw
shuffle mask to the instruction itself in some form of unencoded
operands, and then use that to emit the comments. I still think that's
the optimal solution here, but it proved to be beyond what I'm up for
here. In particular, it seems likely best done by completing the
plumbing of metadata through these layers and attaching the shuffle mask
in metadata which could have fully automatic dropping when encoding an
actual instruction.
llvm-svn: 218377
add VPBLENDD to the InstPrinter's comment generation so we get nice
comments everywhere.
Now that we have the nice comments, I can see the bug introduced by
a silly typo in the commit that enabled VPBLENDD, and have fixed it. Yay
tests that are easy to inspect.
llvm-svn: 218335
VPBLENDD where appropriate even on 128-bit vectors.
According to Agner's tables, this instruction is significantly higher
throughput (can execute on any port) on Haswell chips so we should
aggressively try to form it when available.
Sadly, this loses our delightful shuffle comments. I'll add those back
for VPBLENDD next.
llvm-svn: 218322
These are just test cases, no actual code yet. This establishes the
baseline fallback strategy we're starting from on AVX2 and the expected
lowering we use on AVX1.
Also, these test cases are very much generated. I've manually crafted
the specific pattern set that I'm hoping will be useful at exercising
the lowering code, but I've not (and could not) manually verify *all* of
these. I've spot checked and they seem legit to me.
As with the rest of vector shuffling, at a certain point the only really
useful way to check the correctness of this stuff is through fuzz
testing.
llvm-svn: 218267
Chandler Carruth