similar to: SVE/SVE2 LLVM sync-up calls

Thanks to all who attended last week's SVE/SVE2 sync-up meeting! The next meeting will be on Thursday, January 9th, at 5pm GMT / 9am PST. I've created the agenda for the next meeting here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17GqhBZaADtnDlDL3L4wWqcMd0qvfzB-VEe_ntodgYjA (If you want to attend, please add your name, email and organisation to the list referenced in the document above so I

Hello, Just bringing to people's attention that we organise a bi-weekly sync-up call to discuss and collaborate on upstream support for scalable vectors and SVE/SVE2 CodeGen support in LLVM. The meetings are held every other Thursday, with the next meeting tomorrow (April 2nd) at 3pm GMT / 7am PST. The invite and agenda for tomorrow's meeting (including links to minutes from previous

Hi all, It's been a while since we've given an update on scalable vector support in LLVM. Over the last 12 months a lot of work has been done to make LLVM cope with scalable vectors. This effort is now starting to bear fruit with LLVM gaining more capabilities, including an intrinsics interface for AArch64 SVE/SVE2, LLVM IR Codegen for scalable vectors, and several loop-vectorization

Hello, I am following up on the issue discussed at the SVE meeting, Sander mentioned that there were some patterns missing from SVE CodeGen for floating point operations, but I was unable to identify them. He mentioned something about looking at the ISelLowering for AArch64 to identify them, so if there is any information of that regard it would be greatly appreciated so we can contribute with

Hi Graham, Thanks for your kind explanation. There was internal discussion about it. If possible, can you let me know the Clang/LLVM CodeGen patches for the vector type on phabricator please? I would like to check what kinds of the restrictions the type causes on Clang/LLVM. Thanks, JinGu Kang ________________________________ From: Graham Hunter <Graham.Hunter at arm.com> Sent: 28 May

Hi, Probably a lot of you are attending interesting talks at LLVM Dev meeting this week, so I hope this message isn't completely lost in all the excitement. In the past month we have carved off our changes to LLVM's assembler/disassembler that implement the AArch64 SVE instruction set [1]. These changes are split these up into individual patches that purely focus on the assembler and

Hi All, I have read the links from Joel. It seems one of its main focus is vectorization of loop with vector predicate register. I am not sure we need the scalable vector type for it. Let's see a simple example from the white paper. 1 void example01(int *restrict a, const int *b, const int *c, long N) 2 { 3 long i; 4 for (i = 0; i < N; ++i) 5 a[i] = b[i] + c[i]; 6 }

I've posted two patches on Phabricator to add support for VScale in LLVM. A brief recap on `vscale`: The scalable vector type in LLVM IR is defined as `<vscale x n x m>`, to create types such as `<vscale x 16 x i8>` for a scalable vector with at least 16 bytes. In the definition of the scalable type, `vscale` is specified as a positive constant of type integer that will only be

Invitation accepted, I am happy to help out with reviews, like I did with the previous VP patches. And of course agreed that things should be well defined, and that we shouldn't paint ourselves in a corner, but I don't think that this is the case. And it's not that I am in a rush, but I don't think this change needs to be predicated on a big change landing first like the LV

JinGu: I’m not Graham, but you might find the following link a good starting point. https://community.arm.com/developer/tools-software/hpc/b/hpc-blog/posts/technology-update-the-scalable-vector-extension-sve-for-the-armv8-a-architecture The question you ask doesn’t have a short answer. The compiler and the instruction set design work together to allow programs to be compiled without knowing

Hi Luke, > was it intentional to leave out both jacob and myself? > [...] > if that was a misunderstanding or an oversight i apologise for raising it. It was definitely not my intention to be non-inclusive, my apologies if that seemed the case! > can i therefore recommend a change, here: > [...] > "This patch adds vscale as a symbolic constant to the IR, similar to >

Thanks Alex! We thought it would be good to start sharing the more mechanical parts of our SVE work, separate from more involved topics like IR and Codegen. Hopefully the assembler/disassembler patches will give some visibility into the available instructions (other than just pointing to specification/documentation). Most of these assembler/disassembler patches are functionally quite simple, the

When I pass an empty string for cpu and features to createTargetMachine, and then use LLVMGetTargetMachineCPU() and LLVMGetTargetMachineFeatureString() to get the strings back, they are still empty. Is there a way to have llvm compute the effective cpu/features string, and provide it so that I can inspect it? I'm trying to figure out how the cpu/features string that I am explicitly passing,

Hi Simon, Thanks for reposting the example, and looking at it more carefully, I think it is very similar to my first proposal. This was met with some resistance here because it dumps loop information in the vector preheader. Doing it this early, we want to emit this in the vectoriser, puts a restriction on (future) optimisations that transform vector loops to honour/update/support this intrinsic

> You have similar problems with https://reviews.llvm.org/D79100 The new revision D79100<https://reviews.llvm.org/D79100> solves your comment 1), and I don't think your comments2) and 3) apply as there are no vendor specific intrinsics involved at all here. Just to quickly discuss the optimisation pipeline, D79100<https://reviews.llvm.org/D79100> is a small extension for the

Thanks @Robin and @Graham for giving some background on scalable vectors and clarifying some of the details! Apologies if I'm repeating things here, but it is probably good to emphasize the conceptually different, but complementary models for scalable vectors: 1. Vectors of unknown, but constant size throughout the program. 2. Vectors of changing size throughout the program. Where (2)

Hello again, I've been meaning to follow up on this thread for the last couple of weeks, my apologies for the delay. To summarise the feedback on the proposal for vector.reduce.fadd/fmul: There seems to be consensus to keep the explicit start value to better accommodate chained reductions (as opposed to generating IR that performs the reduction of the first element using extract/fadd/insert

Hi, I abandoned that approach and followed Eli's suggestion, see somewhere earlier in this thread, and emit an intrinsic that represents/calculates the active mask. I've just uploaded a new revision for D79100 that implements this. Cheers. ________________________________ From: Simon Moll <Simon.Moll at EMEA.NEC.COM> Sent: 18 May 2020 13:32 To: Sjoerd Meijer <Sjoerd.Meijer at

Hi all, At the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, we have been working on an end-to-end vectorizer using scalable vectors for RISC-V Vector extension in context of the EPI Project <https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/accelerator/>. We earlier shared a demo of our prototype implementation  (https://repo.hca.bsc.es/epic/z/9eYRIF, see below) with the folks involved with LLVM

In the RISC-V V extension, there is no upper limit to the size vector registers can be in a future CPU. (Formally, the upper limit is at least 2^31 bytes) Generic code can enquire the size, dynamically allocate space, and transparently save and restore the contents of a vector register or registers. On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 11:28 AM JinGu Kang via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>