[LLVMdev] Adding masked vector load and store intrinsics

[Demikhovsky, Elena]

we just follow  a common recommendation to start with intrinsics:
http://llvm.org/docs/ExtendingLLVM.html


-           Elena

From: Owen Anderson [mailto:resistor at mac.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 23:57
To: Demikhovsky, Elena
Cc: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu; dag at cray.com
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Adding masked vector load and store intrinsics

What is the motivation for using intrinsics versus adding new instructions?

—Owen

On Oct 24, 2014, at 4:24 AM, Demikhovsky, Elena <elena.demikhovsky at intel.com<mailto:elena.demikhovsky at intel.com>> wrote:

Hi,

We would like to add support for masked vector loads and stores by introducing new target-independent intrinsics. The loop vectorizer will then be enhanced to optimize loops containing conditional memory accesses by generating these intrinsics for existing targets such as AVX2 and AVX-512. The vectorizer will first ask the target about availability of masked vector loads and stores. The SLP vectorizer can potentially be enhanced to use these intrinsics as well.

The intrinsics would be legal for all targets; targets that do not support masked vector loads or stores will scalarize them.
The addressed memory will not be touched for masked-off lanes. In particular, if all lanes are masked off no address will be accessed.

  call void @llvm.masked.store (i32* %addr, <16 x i32> %data, i32 4, <16 x i1> %mask)

  %data = call <8 x i32> @llvm.masked.load (i32* %addr, <8 x i32> %passthru, i32 4, <8 x i1> %mask)

where %passthru is used to fill the elements of %data that are masked-off (if any; can be zeroinitializer or undef).

Comments so far, before we dive into more details?

Thank you.

- Elena and Ayal


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