[llvm] [RISCV][VLOPT] Add support for checkUsers when UserMI is a Single-Width Integer Reduction (PR #120345)

[Luke Lau via llvm-commits]

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@@ -1028,79 +1055,106 @@ bool RISCVVLOptimizer::isCandidate(const MachineInstr &MI) const {
   return true;
 }
 
-bool RISCVVLOptimizer::checkUsers(const MachineOperand *&CommonVL,
-                                  MachineInstr &MI) {
+std::optional<MachineOperand>
+RISCVVLOptimizer::getMinimumVLForUser(MachineOperand &UserOp) {
+  const MachineInstr &UserMI = *UserOp.getParent();
+  const MCInstrDesc &Desc = UserMI.getDesc();
+
+  if (!RISCVII::hasVLOp(Desc.TSFlags) || !RISCVII::hasSEWOp(Desc.TSFlags)) {
+    LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "    Abort due to lack of VL, assume that"
+                         " use VLMAX\n");
+    return std::nullopt;
+  }
+
+  // Instructions like reductions may use a vector register as a scalar
+  // register. In this case, we should treat it like a scalar register which
+  // does not impact the decision on whether to optimize VL. But if there is
+  // another user of MI and it may have VL=0, we need to be sure not to reduce
+  // the VL of MI to zero when the VLOp of UserOp may be non-zero. The most
+  // we can reduce it to is one.
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lukel97 wrote:

Does this need reworded now that we're no longer checking VLOp?

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/120345