This implements 2 different vectorisation fallback strategies if tail-folding
fails: 1) don't vectorise at all, or 2) vectorise using a scalar epilogue. This
can be controlled with option -prefer-predicate-over-epilogue, that has been
changed to take a numeric value corresponding to the tail-folding preference
and preferred fallback.
Patch by: Pierre van Houtryve, Sjoerd Meijer.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79783
When folding tail, branch taken count is computed during initial VPlan execution
and recorded to be used by the compare computing the loop's mask. This recording
should directly set the State, instead of reusing Value2VPValue mapping which
serves original Values present prior to vectorization.
The branch taken count may be a constant Value, which may be used elsewhere in
the loop; trying to employ Value2VPValue for both leads to the issue reported in
https://reviews.llvm.org/D76992#inline-721028
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78847
Introduce a new VPWidenCanonicalIVRecipe to generate a canonical vector
induction for use in fold-tail-with-masking, if a primary induction is absent.
The canonical scalar IV having start = 0 and step = VF*UF, created during code
-gen to control the vector loop, is widened into a canonical vector IV having
start = {<Part*VF, Part*VF+1, ..., Part*VF+VF-1> for 0 <= Part < UF} and
step = <VF*UF, VF*UF, ..., VF*UF>.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77635
This addresses a vectorisation regression for tail-folded loops that are
counting down, e.g. loops as simple as this:
void foo(char *A, char *B, char *C, uint32_t N) {
while (N > 0) {
*C++ = *A++ + *B++;
N--;
}
}
These are loops that can be vectorised, but when tail-folding is requested, it
can't find a primary induction variable which we do need for predicating the
loop. As a result, the loop isn't vectorised at all, which it is able to do
when tail-folding is not attempted. So, this adds a check for the primary
induction variable where we decide how to lower the scalar epilogue. I.e., when
there isn't a primary induction variable, a scalar epilogue loop is allowed
(i.e. don't request tail-folding) so that vectorisation could still be
triggered.
Having this check for the primary induction variable make sense anyway, and in
addition, in a follow-up of this I will look into discovering earlier the
primary induction variable for counting down loops, so that this can also be
tail-folded.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72324
Sjoerd Meijer