Summary:
Specifically, when we perform runtime loop unrolling of a loop that
contains a convergent op, we can only unroll k times, where k divides
the loop trip multiple.
Without this change, we'll happily unroll e.g. the following loop
for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
if (i == 0) convergent_op();
foo();
}
into
int i = 0;
if (N % 2 == 1) {
convergent_op();
foo();
++i;
}
for (; i < N - 1; i += 2) {
if (i == 0) convergent_op();
foo();
foo();
}.
This is unsafe, because we've just added a control-flow dependency to
the convergent op in the prelude.
In general, runtime unrolling loops that contain convergent ops is safe
only if we don't have emit a prelude, which occurs when the unroll count
divides the trip multiple.
Reviewers: resistor
Subscribers: llvm-commits, mzolotukhin
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17526
llvm-svn: 263509
Justin Lebar