[PATCH] D27586: AMDGPU/SI: Add llvm.amdgcn.s.buffer.load intrinsic

[Marek Olšák via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

mareko added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D27586#662432, @tstellarAMD wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D27586#662394, @mareko wrote:
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> > How is this different from using amdgcn.buffer.load if https://reviews.llvm.org/D28993 lands (which is not certain)?
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> I don't think it's legal to select amdgcn.buffer.load to SMRD unless you can prove that it is uniform.  llvm.amdgcn.s.buffer.load is known to always be uniform.


Well, I can't prove that it is uniform, but neither does Mesa for non-constant offsets. The idea of my patch is that SMRD is selected first and moveToVALU will lower it if necessary.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D27586