[llvm] [LoopVectorizer] Add support for partial reductions (PR #92418)

[Sam Tebbs via llvm-commits]

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@@ -2067,6 +2085,19 @@ class TargetTransformInfo::Concept {
   /// \return if target want to issue a prefetch in address space \p AS.
   virtual bool shouldPrefetchAddressSpace(unsigned AS) const = 0;
 
+  /// \return The cost of a partial reduction, which is a reduction from a
+  /// vector to another vector with fewer elements of larger size. They are
+  /// represented by the llvm.experimental.partial.reduce.add intrinsic, which
+  /// takes an accumulator and a binary operation operand that itself is fed by
+  /// two extends. An example of an operation that uses a partial reduction is a
+  /// dot product, which reduces a vector to another of 4 times larger but fewer
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SamTebbs33 wrote:

Not necessarily, a dot product is a general operation that goes 4 -> 1.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/92418