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

Demikhovsky, Elena elena.demikhovsky at intel.com
Mon Oct 27 00:02:34 PDT 2014

we just follow a common recommendation to start with intrinsics: http://llvm.org/docs/ExtendingLLVM.html

From: Owen Anderson [mailto:resistor at mac.com] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 23:57 To: Demikhovsky, Elena Cc: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu; dag at cray.com Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Adding masked vector load and store intrinsics

What is the motivation for using intrinsics versus adding new instructions?

—Owen

On Oct 24, 2014, at 4:24 AM, Demikhovsky, Elena <elena.demikhovsky at intel.com<mailto:elena.demikhovsky at intel.com>> wrote:

Hi,

We would like to add support for masked vector loads and stores by introducing new target-independent intrinsics. The loop vectorizer will then be enhanced to optimize loops containing conditional memory accesses by generating these intrinsics for existing targets such as AVX2 and AVX-512. The vectorizer will first ask the target about availability of masked vector loads and stores. The SLP vectorizer can potentially be enhanced to use these intrinsics as well.

The intrinsics would be legal for all targets; targets that do not support masked vector loads or stores will scalarize them. The addressed memory will not be touched for masked-off lanes. In particular, if all lanes are masked off no address will be accessed.

call void @llvm.masked.store (i32* %addr, <16 x i32> %data, i32 4, <16 x i1> %mask)

%data = call <8 x i32> @llvm.masked.load (i32* %addr, <8 x i32> %passthru, i32 4, <8 x i1> %mask)

where %passthru is used to fill the elements of %data that are masked-off (if any; can be zeroinitializer or undef).

Comments so far, before we dive into more details?

Thank you.

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