Hoisting and sinking instructions out of conditional blocks enables
additional vectorization by:
- Executing memory accesses unconditionally.
- Reducing the number of instructions that need predication.
After disabling early hoisting / sinking, we miss out on a few
vectorization opportunities. One of those is causing a ~10% performance
regression in one of the Geekbench benchmarks on AArch64.
This patch tires to recover the regression by running hoisting/sinking
as part of a SimplifyCFG run after LoopRotate and before LoopVectorize.
Note that in the legacy pass-manager, we run LoopRotate just before
vectorization again and there's no SimplifyCFG run in between, so the
sinking/hoisting may impact the later run on LoopRotate. But the impact
should be limited and the benefit of hosting/sinking at this stage
should outweigh the risk of not rotating.
Compile-time impact looks slightly positive for most cases.
http://llvm-compile-time-tracker.com/compare.php?from=2ea7fb7b1c045a7d60fcccf3df3ebb26aa3699e5&to=e58b4a763c691da651f25996aad619cb3d946faf&stat=instructions
NewPM-O3: geomean -0.19%
NewPM-ReleaseThinLTO: geoman -0.54%
NewPM-ReleaseLTO-g: geomean -0.03%
With a few benchmarks seeing a notable increase, but also some
improvements.
Alternative to D101290.
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