[Mlir-commits] [mlir] [mlir][vector] Update docs for scalable vectors (PR #101842)

[Cullen Rhodes]

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@@ -73,12 +73,30 @@ following top-down rewrites and conversions:
 
 ### LLVM level
 
-On CPU, the `n-D` `vector` type currently lowers to `!llvm<array<vector>>`. More
-concretely, `vector<4x8x128xf32>` lowers to `!llvm<[4 x [ 8 x [ 128 x float
-]]]>`. There are tradeoffs involved related to how one can access subvectors and
-how one uses `llvm.extractelement`, `llvm.insertelement` and
-`llvm.shufflevector`. A [deeper dive section](#DeeperDive) discusses the current
-lowering choices and tradeoffs.
+On CPU, the `n-D` `vector` type currently lowers to `!llvm<array<vector>>`.
+More concretely,
+* `vector<4x8x128xf32>` lowers to `!llvm<[4 x [ 8 x < 128
+x float >]]>` (fixed-width vector), and
+* `vector<4x8x[128]xf32>` lowers to `!llvm<[4 x [ 8 x < vscale x 128
+x float >]]>` (scalable vector).
+
+There are tradeoffs involved related to how one can access subvectors and how
+one uses `llvm.extractelement`, `llvm.insertelement` and `llvm.shufflevector`.
+The section on [LLVM Lowering Tradeoffs](#llvm-lowering-tradeoffs) offers a
+deeper dive into the current design choices and tradeoffs.
+
+Note, while LLVM supports vectors of scalable vectors, these are required to be
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c-rhodes wrote:

LLVM doesn't support vectors of vectors, do you mean arrays?

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/101842