[llvm] [LV] Don't trigger legacy/vplan assert when forcing costs (PR #156870)

David Sherwood via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Nov 17 00:51:21 PST 2025


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@@ -7047,7 +7047,13 @@ VectorizationFactor LoopVectorizationPlanner::computeBestVF() {
   // Verify that the VPlan-based and legacy cost models agree, except for VPlans
   // with early exits and plans with additional VPlan simplifications. The
   // legacy cost model doesn't properly model costs for such loops.
+  // NOTE: If the user has forced a target instruction cost this assert is very
+  // likely to trigger because the VPlan recipes don't map 1:1 with the scalar
+  // instructions that the legacy cost model is based on. One example of this is
+  // for interleave groups - VPlan will use the forced cost for the whole group,
+  // whereas the legacy cost model will use it for each load.
   assert((BestFactor.Width == LegacyVF.Width || BestPlan.hasEarlyExit() ||
+          ForceTargetInstructionCost.getNumOccurrences() > 0 ||
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david-arm wrote:

No sorry I didn't look into it, because honestly speaking I wasn't sure in the value of making the cost models match (and hence making the code more complex) when forcing the target instruction cost. It felt like a lot of effort for something that users/developers probably don't care about.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/156870


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