[llvm-dev] RFC: [LV] any objections in moving isLegalMasked* check from Legal to CostModel? (Cleaning up LoopVectorizationLegality)

[Hal Finkel via llvm-dev]

On 01/05/2018 06:28 PM, Saito, Hideki wrote:
> Amara,
>
>> I support this direction
> Thanks for the support.
>
>> but are there actually any real world workloads where gather/scatter scalarisation would be worth it, on any micro-architecture? If we don’t have examples and the compile time cost is non-negligible then I think we’d still like to keep the early >bailouts in some form.’
> It's not like I have specific application code in mind. This all depends on what your code has and how often the emulated code has to
> kick-in. I'm more than happy to implement HWLegal class, and have early bailout available under the switch. I'm also fine having early
> bail out as the default if that helps sweeten the deal. :)
>
> My intention is to make LV components more modular, reusable, and easier to maintain. Moving things where they actually belong
> is part of that picture. That makes it a lot easier for us to place those things within VPlan infrastructure and explain why that's
> the best place.

I think that we should proceed on this basis. It is not clear to me that 
the extra compile time will be significant, and we shouldn't prematurely 
optimize (although we should check for any significant impact).

The intrinsics should be scalarized on all targets without support (by 
lib/CodeGen/ScalarizeMaskedMemIntrin.cpp which is scheduled by default 
in TargetPassConfig::addIRPasses).

  -Hal

>
> Thanks,
> Hideki
>
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> Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] RFC: [LV] any objections in moving isLegalMasked* check from Legal to CostModel? (Cleaning up LoopVectorizationLegality)
>
>> On 5 Jan 2018, at 21:01, Saito, Hideki via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I'm trying to refactor LoopVectorize such that it has better
>> conformance to VPlan vision going forward
>> (http://www.llvm.org/docs/Proposals/VectorizationPlan.html). All
>> VP*Recipe class definitions are now moved to VPlan.h, and I have a patch under review to move LoopVectorizationPlanner class out of LoopVectorize.cpp (https://reviews.llvm.org/D41420).
>>
>> Next thing I'm working on is LoopVectorizationLegality, and I noticed
>> that it has a component of CostModel and optimization, which doesn't seem right from vectorizer's architectural perspective.
>> It appears that we are currently abusing Legal as the attic to throw a
>> lot of things in order to avoid passing many pointers around. From
>> vectorizer's architectural point of view, we should distinguish Legal
>> from "Vectorization Context Information" (I'd call it
>> LoopVectorizationAnalysisInfo), some of which (such as induction, reduction, etc.) are populated during the Legal step. InterleaveInfo shouldn't even be a member of Legal. Nothing to do with Legality. It would be a good member of LoopVectorizationAnalysisInfo.
>> Eventually, I'd like to see these under Analysis subtree (instead of Transform), since they are indeed Analysis.
>>
>> As a first step of this LoopVectorizationLegality cleanup, I propose
>> to move the following checks (and member functions) to LoopVectorizationCostModel.
>> 	isLegalMaskedStore
>> 	isLegalMaskedLoad
>> 	isLegalMaskedScatter
>> 	isLegalMaskedGather
>> My assumption is that all SIMD architectures should support
>> serialization of those operations at some cost  (e.g., lowering in CG
>> prepare) and thus failing to vectorize due to "false" return values of
>> those calls is incorrect behavior. I'll make sure to use a very high initial cost such that this cleanup is NFC for all practical purposes ---- and leave the tuning work as TODO.
>>
>> The down side I can think of is that this will end up running more
>> parts of vectorizer for those kind of loops ---- can expose
>> pre-existing bugs and compile time would be a bit longer since we are
>> bailing out later. Upside is that we can tune the cost model ---- if
>> other parts of the loop has enough speedup, we don't have to give up entire vectorization simply because masked load/store/gather/scatter aren't supported on the target.
>>
>> If anyone still thinks "early bailout" is valuable, splitting into a
>> separate HWLegal class would be a cleaner approach than what we have today. We should be able to disable/enable it under an option.
>>
>> Let me know what you think.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hideki Saito
>>
>>
> I support this direction, and agree in principal that these are strictly cost model queries, but are there actually any real world workloads where gather/scatter scalarisation would be worth it, on any micro-architecture? If we don’t have examples and the compile time cost is non-negligible then I think we’d still like to keep the early bailouts in some form.’
>
> Amara
>
>

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Hal Finkel
Lead, Compiler Technology and Programming Languages
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory