Summary:
We don't seem to have great rules on what a valid VBROADCAST node looks like. And as a consequence we end up with a lot of patterns to try to catch everything. We have patterns with scalar inputs, 128-bit vector inputs, 256-bit vector inputs, and 512-bit vector inputs.
As you can see from the things improved here we are currently missing patterns for 128-bit loads being extended to 256-bit before the vbroadcast.
I'd like to propose that VBROADCAST should always take a 128-bit vector type as input. As a first step towards that this patch adds an EXTRACT_SUBVECTOR in front of VBROADCAST when the input is 256 or 512-bits. In the future I would like to add scalar_to_vector around all the scalar operations. And maybe we should consider adding a VBROADCAST+load node to avoid separating loads from the broadcasting operation when the load itself isn't foldable.
This requires an additional change in target shuffle combining to look for the extract subvector and look through it to find the original operand. I'm sure this change isn't perfect but was enough to fix a few test failures that were being caused.
Another interesting thing I noticed is that the changes in masked_gather_scatter.ll show cases were we don't remove a useless insert into element 1 before broadcasting element 0.
Reviewers: delena, RKSimon, zvi
Reviewed By: zvi
Subscribers: igorb, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28747
llvm-svn: 295155
Some shuffles can be lowered to blend mask instruction (VPBLENDMB/VPBLENDMW/VPBLENDMD/VPBLENDMQ) .
In this patch, I added new pattern match for this case.
Reviewers:
1. craig.topper
2. guyblank
3. RKSimon
4. igorb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28483
llvm-svn: 291888
This patch fix PR31351: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=31351
1. This patch adds new type of shuffle lowering
2. We can use the expand instruction, When the shuffle pattern is as following:
{ 0*a[0]0*a[1]...0*a[n] , n >=0 where a[] elements in a ascending order}.
Reviewers: 1. igorb
2. guyblank
3. craig.topper
4. RKSimon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28352
llvm-svn: 291584
Craig Topper