[LLVMdev] Adding masked vector load and store intrinsics

[Das, Dibyendu]

Is there an example of such a workload ( lets say from the spec cpu 2006 harness or similar ) that you have in mind and the amount of gain expected ?
- dibyendu

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From: dag at cray.com [mailto:dag at cray.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 10:52 PM
To: Das, Dibyendu
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Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Adding masked vector load and store intrinsics

"Das, Dibyendu" <Dibyendu.Das at amd.com> writes:

> This looks to be a reasonable proposal. However native instructions 
> that support such masked ld/st may have a high latency ? Also, it 
> would be good to state some workloads where this will have a positive 
> impact.

Any significant vector workload will see a giant gain from this.

The masked operations really shouldn't have any more latency.  The time of the memory operation itself dominates.

                            -David