[PATCH] D11089: [NVPTX] declare no vector registers

Jingyue Wu jingyue at google.com
Thu Jul 9 17:22:04 PDT 2015


Makes sense. Thank you.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Justin Holewinski <jholewinski at nvidia.com>
wrote:

> jholewinski added a comment.
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> The short answer is that ptxas doesn't handle vector registers very well.
> It may be good to revisit this, but ptxas currently prefers scalar ops.
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> Last time I looked into this, the implementation cost greatly outweighed
> any potential benefits. At the SASS level, we don't have vector fp ops
> anyway.
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> http://reviews.llvm.org/D11089
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