[PATCH] D127392: [AggressiveInstCombine] Combine consecutive loads which are being merged to form a wider load.

[Biplob Mishra via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

bipmis added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/lib/Transforms/AggressiveInstCombine/AggressiveInstCombine.cpp:694-697
+  // Swap loads if LI1 comes later as we handle only forward loads.
+  // This is done as InstCombine folds lowest node forward loads to reverse.
+  // The implementation will be subsequently extended to handle all reverse
+  // loads.
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spatel wrote:
> I didn't notice this limitation before. "Forward" and "reverse" are referring to the order that the `or` instructions use the loaded values?
> 
> I agree that we don't want to complicate the initial implementation any more than necessary, but it might help to see how the backend handles that in DAGCombiner::MatchLoadCombine() (see D133584 for a proposed enhancement to that code).
Right it is the order
Forward - or(or(or(or(0,1),2),3)
Reverse - or(or(or(or(3,2),1),0)
Considering 0,1...as zext and shl of loads with index 0,1 etc.

For simplicity we wanted to implement the forward first and if this looks good we can do the reverse+mixed size loads. There should be minimal changes on top of this.  So that is in plan next.


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