[PATCH] Added more insertps optimizations

[Andrea Di Biagio]

> Hi Andrea,
> 
> Wouldn't the tablegen patterns be problematic when we use the load result
> several times?
> If we use it several times, then we shouldn't generate additional loads. Or
> do you think it doesn't matter since they should be close together, since
> we're generating for one BB only?

The ISel pattern matcher will only reduce a dag sequence if the chain is "profitable to fold". A chain is never profitable, for example, if it contains nodes with more than one use.

In the case of your new test function 'insertps_from_vector_load', if I add another use for variable %1, then the following rule will no longer trigger.

  def : Pat<(v4f32 (X86insertps (v4f32 VR128:$src1), (loadv4f32 addr:$src2),
                  imm:$src3)),
              (INSERTPSrm VR128:$src1, addr:$src2, imm:$src3)>;

That is because eventually, method 'X86DAGtoDAGISel::IsProfitableToFold' will return false if the 'loadv4f32' has more than one use (see X86ISelDAGToDAG.cpp - around line 303). Basically, the matcher will try to verify that all the intermediate nodes between the X86Insertps (excluded) and the loadv4f32 (included), only have a single use.

Given how the ISel Matcher works, in case of a load result used several times, we will not generate additional loads.

> That was the reasoning behind doing it with code and guarding them with
> MayFoldLoad, which includes hasOneUse().

That reasoning is correct. However, the pattern Matcher will do the same and will never try to fold the loadv4f32 if it has more than one use. (P.s.: you can see it by yourself if you some experiments adding more uses for the load instruction and then you debug ISel passing flag -debug to llc).

I hope this helps.

http://reviews.llvm.org/D3581