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[AArch64][SVE] Fold vector ZExt/SExt into gather loads where possible
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Authored by joechrisellis on Mar 3 2021, 7:10 AM.

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Summary

This commit folds sign- or zero-extended offsets into gather loads where
possible with a DAGCombine optimization.

As an example, the following code:

1	#include <arm_sve.h>
2
3	svuint64_t func(svbool_t pred, const int32_t *base, svint64_t offsets) {
4	  return svld1sw_gather_s64offset_u64(
5	    pred, base, svextw_s64_x(pred, offsets)
6	  );
7	}

would previously lower to the following assembly:

sxtw	z0.d, p0/m, z0.d
ld1sw	{ z0.d }, p0/z, [x0, z0.d]
ret

but now lowers to:

ld1sw   { z0.d }, p0/z, [x0, z0.d, sxtw]
ret

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joechrisellis created this revision.Mar 3 2021, 7:10 AM
joechrisellis requested review of this revision.Mar 3 2021, 7:10 AM
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david-arm added a subscriber: kmclaughlin.

Adding @kmclaughlin as reviewer since she did a lot of the gather/scatter lowering work.

david-arm added inline comments.Mar 4 2021, 12:40 AM
llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64ISelLowering.cpp
14452

Do we not need to check the type we're extending from here? For example, what if we're extending from a vector of i8s, which isn't tested below?

peterwaller-arm added inline comments.Mar 4 2021, 1:58 AM
llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64ISelLowering.cpp
14421

This comment (and below) is merely a re-expression of the code on the next line, where a message indicating the intent may be more useful -- something like "Fold sign/zero extensions of vector offsets into GLD1 nodes where possible".

joechrisellis marked 2 inline comments as done.

Address comments.

  • @david-arm: make sure that we only fold in {u,s}xtws, not just any sign-/zero-extension.
  • @peterwaller-arm: comment clarifications.
joechrisellis added inline comments.Mar 4 2021, 7:00 AM
llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64ISelLowering.cpp
14452

Great spot -- thank you. Turns out we can only fold in {u,s}xtws (w being the key part). :)

kmclaughlin added inline comments.Mar 4 2021, 11:16 AM
llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64ISelLowering.cpp
14407–14411

nit: I think it might make the code below a bit clearer if these variables were named similarly to the comments accompanying them, i.e. Chain, Pred, Base, etc

14422

Can we remove some of the indentation below by returning SDValue() here if the offset isn't extended instead?

14450

There were some helper functions added for LowerMGATHER which I think you might be able to use here to get the right gather opcode (getGatherVecOpcode & getSignExtendedGatherOpcode).
As an example:

...
case GLD1_MERGE_ZERO:
case GLD1S_MERGE_ZERO:
  getGatherVecOpcode(false /*Scaled*/, OffsetIsSext, true /*NeedsExtend*/);
case GLD1_SCALED_MERGE_ZERO:
case GLD1_SCALED_MERGE_ZERO:
  getGatherVecOpcode(true /*Scaled*/, OffsetIsSext, true /*NeedsExtend*/);
...
if (Opc == GLD1S_MERGE_ZERO || Opc == GLD1S_SCALED_MERGE_ZERO)
  NewOpc = getSignExtendedGatherOpcode(NewOp);
joechrisellis marked 3 inline comments as done.

Address review comments.

  • @kmclaughlin:
    • better variable names.
    • use helper functions to determine new opcode for gather load.

I've also made the function a little more general, since we might want to extend this function to capture other optimisation patterns in the future.

joechrisellis added inline comments.Mar 5 2021, 6:14 AM
llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64ISelLowering.cpp
14422

I would prefer to leave this as-is, because this was an intentional decision. It's possible that we might want to extend this function with a new optimisation pattern. It'd be easier to extend the function in its current state than it would be with the early return. 🙂

14450

Thanks, that's cleaned things up a lot. 🙂

david-arm added inline comments.Mar 8 2021, 1:26 AM
llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64ISelLowering.cpp
14419

Are these opcodes in a range, i.e. could you assert something like:

assert((Opc >= Op1 && Opc <= Op2) || (Opc >= Op3 && Opc <= Op4))

It might make the assert look a bit nicer perhaps?

14430

In fact, you could move the above assert here instead and have something like:

assert(Scaled || Signed || SExt || ZExt)

maybe?

15850

I wonder if you maybe want to make the combine function simpler for now in terms of asserts and checking by only passing in the opcodes that you actually intend to combine? If later on you want to add more then it's easy enough to update. This is just a suggestion though.

joechrisellis marked an inline comment as done.

Address comments.

  • @david-arm: clean up assertion by using ranges instead of explicitly listing all allowed opcodes.
llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64ISelLowering.cpp
14419

Much nicer -- thank you!

I've split it into two ranges -- one for unsigned gather loads, and one for signed gather loads.

assert(((Opc >= AArch64ISD::GLD1_MERGE_ZERO && // unsigned gather loads
         Opc <= AArch64ISD::GLD1_IMM_MERGE_ZERO) ||
        (Opc >= AArch64ISD::GLD1S_MERGE_ZERO && // signed gather loads
         Opc <= AArch64ISD::GLD1S_IMM_MERGE_ZERO)) &&
       "Invalid opcode.");

These ranges are actually adjacent in the enum at the moment but I guess that isn't always guaranteed to be the case.

14430

I am not sure that this will work because it is possible to have an unscaled, unsigned, and unextended opcode -- e.g. AArch64ISD::GLD1_MERGE_ZERO. Although this point is definitely valid if we only consider the optimisation patterns that we're performing at the moment.

15850

I am happy to leave it as-is for now, as long as this isn't a blocker? I think it's nice to be able to add new patterns in for the different ISD nodes without too much wrangling. Just my opinion though --override if you want! 😄

Politely pinging this. 🙂

kmclaughlin accepted this revision.Mar 16 2021, 5:11 AM

LGTM! I think it's probably worth checking if we can do this for scatter stores at some point as well.

llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64ISelLowering.cpp
14420

nit: if SExt & ZExt aren't used anywhere else, could you remove them and just set Extended based on the opcode? i.e.

const bool Extended = Opc == AArch64ISD::GLD1_SXTW_MERGE_ZERO ||
                      Opc == AArch64ISD::GLD1_SXTW_SCALED_MERGE_ZERO ||
                      Opc == AArch64ISD::GLD1_UXTW_MERGE_ZERO ||
                      Opc == AArch64ISD::GLD1_UXTW_SCALED_MERGE_ZERO;
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 16 2021, 5:11 AM

Address code review comments.

This revision was landed with ongoing or failed builds.Mar 16 2021, 8:10 AM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.