[PATCH] D61764: [LV] Suppress vectorization in some nontemporal cases

[Warren Ristow via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

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In D61764#1519660 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D61764#1519660>, @wristow wrote:

> In D61764#1517571 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D61764#1517571>, @RKSimon wrote:
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> > Would it be possible to add tests where non-temporal load/stores successfully vectorize?
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> Glad to see your comment about SSE4A supporting nt-stores at any alignment.  With that, I can make an X86 test-case that does vectorize.


Actually, if I understand your SSE4A point correctly, then that doesn't allow vector nt-stores at abrbitrary alignment.  So AFAIK, there aren't any vector nt mem-ops on X86, and so for X86, I cannot make a test that successfully vectorizes.



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Comment at: lib/Target/X86/X86TargetTransformInfo.cpp:3080
+  if (DataType->isFloatTy() || DataType->isDoubleTy())
+    return ST->hasSSE4A();
+
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wristow wrote:
> wristow wrote:
> > RKSimon wrote:
> > > SSE4A nt-stores can happen with any alignment, and AFAICT without any perf penalty.
> > I didn't realize that.  I'll update the patch, and include a test for it.
> Looking into this, I'm confused...  Are you saying (for example) that with SSE4A, `vmovntps` can do an nt-store with a misaligned address?  Looking through the docs, I'm seeing a requirement for the address to be aligned.
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> Or are you saying (for example) the SSE4A instruction `movntss` (which takes a vector-register operand containing the value to be stored) can take an arbitrary alignment for the memory address?  If that's what your point is, then yes I should change the above to allow misaligned `float` and `double` nt-stores.  But `movntss` is only storing one `float` element of the vector register (ignoring the other elems), and so it doesn't allow us to vectorize the case.  In short, yes I should change that for `float` and `double` nt-stores on SSE4A, but since it doesn't allow us to vectorize, I wonder if I'm misunderstanding your point.
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> Or are you saying something else?  (Like I said, I'm confused.)
I'm thinking your point must be my second guess above (that `movntss` and `movntsd` can store  `float`/`double` non-temporally at an arbitrary boundary).  So I've updated the patch to do that.


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