[llvm-dev] Disable combining of loads and stores in instcombine

[JF Bastien via llvm-dev]

> On Apr 17, 2019, at 10:06 AM, Neil Ryan <neilryan at cs.washington.edu> wrote:
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>> Why do you want this?
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> The goal is to share arrays between multiple tiles on a manycore architecture by splitting arrays between tiles. With a DRF memory model, it makes sense to elide multiple loads to the same memory location between barriers.; IIRC the semantics for volatile don’t allow this eliding.

If there hasn’t been synchronization between to loads, then yes it makes sense to elide loads in a DRF memory model.
Indeed volatile loads cannot be elided.
But why is it desirable to avoid combining adjacent stores? If you’ve got DRF code then the combination can’t be observed.
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