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[LoopVectorizer] Take into account call register pressure when selecting interleave count
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Authored by rob.lougher on Aug 15 2018, 12:41 PM.

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Summary

This is a follow up patch to D48193. In the previous review an example of poor code generation was given, where the interleave count caused a loop containing a veclib call to generate excessive spills/reloads. The suggested fix was to simply use an IC of 1 when a veclib call is present.

Rather than use an IC of 1 for all platforms, this patch:

  1. Adds a call register pressure calculation.
  2. Adds calls to TargetTransformInfo to obtain information about the number of preserved registers.

At present only a basic implementation of the TTI calls is provided for x86. However, the default implementation means that this change will have no affect on other platforms.

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rob.lougher created this revision.Aug 15 2018, 12:41 PM
grandinj added inline comments.
lib/Target/X86/X86TargetTransformInfo.cpp
191

perhaps an

assert(hasNumberOfCallPreservedRegisters() && "you need to call hasNumberOfCallPreservedRegisters before calling this")

would be a good idea here, to catch incorrect usage?

rob.lougher added inline comments.Aug 16 2018, 10:42 AM
lib/Target/X86/X86TargetTransformInfo.cpp
191

Yes, excellent idea. I'll add an assert to the function in TargetTransformInfo.cpp, before calling the TTIImpl.

rob.lougher marked 2 inline comments as done.

Added asserts to TTI functions to catch misuse.

dcaballe resigned from this revision.Oct 8 2021, 2:32 PM