[llvm-dev] Working on FP SCEV Analysis

[Adam Nemet via llvm-dev]

> On May 18, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Sanjoy Das via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Demikhovsky, Elena wrote:
>> > Even then, I'd personally want to see further evidence of why the
>> correct solution is to model the floating point IV in SCEV rather than
>> find a more powerful way of converting the IV to an integer that models
>> > the non-integer values taken on by the IV. As an example, if the use
>> case is the following code with appropriate flags to relax IEEE
>> semantics so this looks like normal algabra etc:
>> 
>> > for (float f = 0.01f; f < 1.0f; f += 0.01f) ç **A**
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> > I'd rather see us cleverly turn it into:
>> 
>> > float f = 0.01f;
>> 
>> > for (int i = 1; i < 100; i += 1, f += 0.01f) ç **B**
>> 
>> I can later try to enhance IndVarSimplify::handleFloatingPointIV() in
>> order to convert**A** to **B**.
>> 
>> But **B** is exactly the case I’m starting from. The main IV “i” is
>> integer. The variable “f” is also considered as IV in this loop.
>> 
>> And this loop is not vectorized because “f” is floating point.
>> 
>> I don’t think that the case **B** is uncommon.
> 
> If B is the case we actually care about, I'd say changing SCEV to work with floating points is an overkill.  How would you expect an SCEVFAddExpr to help vectorize B, other than tell you what the initial value and the increment is (and these can be found with a simple value analysis)?

One option would be to extend InductionDescriptor::isInductionPHI in the vectorizer to directly analyze the PHIs without SCEV support as Sanjoy suggested.  I *think* that that could be sufficient to handle case B.

Then if we find other pressing cases to handle we can rethink the strategy.

Also the current diagnostics is pretty bad for Hideki’s testcase with TTT as float.  This is what we currently report with -Rpass-analysis=loop-vectorize:

/tmp/sss.c:3:6: remark: loop not vectorized: value that could not be
      identified as reduction is used outside the loop
      [-Rpass-analysis=loop-vectorize]

I have no clue why we say that the value is used outside the loop.  I think this should just say that we have a loop-variant value that we couldn’t identify either as an induction or as a reduction.

Adam

> 
> If we're interested in handling complex variants of A directly: computing trip counts, proving away predicates etc. without translating the loops to use integer IVs (perhaps because we can't legally do so), then I can see FP-SCEV as a reasonable implementation strategy, but it looks like the general consensus is that such cases are rare and generally not worth optimizing?
> 
> -- Sanjoy
> 
>> 
>> -*/Elena/*
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