[llvm-dev] X86 TRUNCATE cost for AVX & AVX2 mode

[Nema, Ashutosh via llvm-dev]

Hi,

I was going through the X86TTIImpl::getCastInstrCost, and got a doubt on cost
calculation for TRUNCATE instruction in AVX mode.

In AVX2ConversionTbl & AVXConversionTbl table there is no cost defined for
TRUNCATE v16i32 to v16i8, as a fallback it goes to SSE41ConversionTbl table and there
it finds cost as 30 for this operation. 30 cost for this operation looks very high.

Wondering why such a high cost kept for this, any pointers to understand this will be helpful.
In few cases this restricts better vectorization opportunities.

Other observations:
Cost for TRUNCATE v16i32 to v16i8 in SSE2ConversionTbl as 7.
Cost for TRUNCATE v8i32 to v8i8 is 2 in AVX2 and 4 in AVX mode.

Thanks,
Ashutosh


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