>> That's odd, you only need to adjust the IV which is used in the exit test,
>> not all the others.
Sorry for my incorrect information. I checked the codegen of both single-rgroup and multi-rgroup.
Their codegen are same behavior, after this patch, there will be 1 more neg instruction in preheader
and 1 more mv instruction inside the loop.



juzhe.zhong@rivai.ai
 
From: Richard Biener
Date: 2023-05-30 20:33
To: juzhe.zhong
CC: Richard Sandiford; gcc-patches; linkw
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VECT: Change flow of decrement IV
On Tue, 30 May 2023, juzhe.zhong wrote:
 
> This patch will generate the number of rgroup ?mov? instructions inside the
> loop. This is unacceptable. For example?if number of rgroups=3? will be 3 more
> instruction in loop. If this patch is necessary? I think I should find a way
> to fix it.
 
That's odd, you only need to adjust the IV which is used in the exit test,
not all the others.
 
> ---- Replied Message ----
> From
> Richard Sandiford<richard.sandiford@arm.com>
> Date
> 05/30/2023 19:41
> To
> juzhe.zhong@rivai.ai<juzhe.zhong@rivai.ai>
> Cc
> gcc-patches<gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
> rguenther<rguenther@suse.de>,
> linkw<linkw@linux.ibm.com>
> Subject
> Re: [PATCH] VECT: Change flow of decrement IV
> "juzhe.zhong@rivai.ai" <juzhe.zhong@rivai.ai> writes:
> > Before this patch:
> > foo:
> > ble a2,zero,.L5
> > csrr a3,vlenb
> > srli a4,a3,2
> > .L3:
> > minu a5,a2,a4
> > vsetvli zero,a5,e32,m1,ta,ma
> > vle32.v v2,0(a1)
> > vle32.v v1,0(a0)
> > vsetvli t1,zero,e32,m1,ta,ma
> > vadd.vv v1,v1,v2
> > vsetvli zero,a5,e32,m1,ta,ma
> > vse32.v v1,0(a0)
> > add a1,a1,a3
> > add a0,a0,a3
> >       sub   a2,a2,a5
> > bne a2,zero,.L3
> > .L5:
> > ret
> >
> > After this patch:
> >
> > foo:
> > ble a2,zero,.L5
> > csrr a3,vlenb
> > srli a4,a3,2
> > neg a7,a4   -->>>additional instruction
> > .L3:
> > minu a5,a2,a4
> > vsetvli zero,a5,e32,m1,ta,ma
> > vle32.v v2,0(a1)
> > vle32.v v1,0(a0)
> > vsetvli t1,zero,e32,m1,ta,ma
> > mv a6,a2  -->>>additional instruction
> > vadd.vv v1,v1,v2
> > vsetvli zero,a5,e32,m1,ta,ma
> > vse32.v v1,0(a0)
> > add a1,a1,a3
> > add a0,a0,a3
> > add a2,a2,a7
> > bgtu a6,a4,.L3
> > .L5:
> > ret
> >
> > There is 1 more instruction in preheader and 1 more instruction in loop.
> > But I think it's OK for RVV since we will definitely be using SELECT_VL so
> this issue will gone.
> 
> But what about cases where you won't be using SELECT_VL, such as SLP?
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
 
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