[LLVMdev] Adding masked vector load and store intrinsics (original) (raw)

Pete Cooper peter_cooper at apple.com
Fri Oct 24 13:51:02 PDT 2014

On Oct 24, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Cooper" <petercooper at apple.com> To: "Nadav Rotem" <nrotem at apple.com> Cc: dag at cray.com, llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 3:40:10 PM Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Adding masked vector load and store intrinsics

On Oct 24, 2014, at 11:38 AM, Nadav Rotem < nrotem at apple.com > wrote: I agree with the approach of adding target-independent masked memory intrinsics. One reason is that I would like to keep the vectorizers target independent (and use the target transform info to query the backends). I oppose adding new first-level instructions because we would need to teach all of the existing optimizations about the new instructions, and considering the limited usefulness of masked operations it is not worth the effort. I agree with this. They should be target independent.

However, what types should be supported here? I haven’t looked in detail, but from memory I believe AVX-512 masks 32-bit values, and not bytes. Are we going to have an intrinsic which can handle any vector type, or just <n x 32-bit> vectors, even at first? I think you're confusing the IR types with the backend types. At the IR level, the masks are (one boolean per vector lane), the backend may represent this with a different type, but that's true of comparison results generally (they're often represented with different types in the backend), we already deal with that. Regarding the pointer type, it is irrelevant, we'll just cast to it from whatever the deal pointer type is. Sorry, I should have been clearer. I mean what types can the lanes be? And assuming its not all types down to i8, how should we handle the illegal cases, or avoid creating them in the first place?

Thanks, Pete

-Hal

Also, given that the types of the vectors matter, it seems like we’re going to need TTI anyway whenever we want to generate one of these, or else we’ll end up generating an illegal version which has to be scalarised in the backend. Thanks, Pete

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