This put the onus on the caller to ensure the result type is big enough.
In the unlikely event a cropped result is required then explicitly
truncate a safe value.

After unrolling, there may be additional simplifications that can be
applied. One example is removing SCALAR-STEPS for the first part where
only the first lane is demanded.

This removes redundant adds of 0 from a large number of tests (~200),
many which I am still working on updating.

In preparation for removing redundant WideIV steps added in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/119284.

PR: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/123655

This patch moves branch condition creation to enter the scalar epilogue
loop to VPlan. Modeling the branch in the middle block also requires
modeling the successor blocks. This is done using the recently
introduced VPIRBasicBlock.

Note that the middle.block is still created as part of the skeleton and
then patched in during VPlan execution. Unfortunately the skeleton needs
to create the middle.block early on, as it is also used for induction
resume value creation and is also needed to properly update the
dominator tree during skeleton creation.

After this patch lands, I plan to move induction resume value and phi
node creation in the scalar preheader to VPlan. Once that is done, we
should be able to create the middle.block in VPlan directly.

This is a re-worked version based on the earlier
https://reviews.llvm.org/D150398 and the main change is the use of
VPIRBasicBlock.

Depends on https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/92525

PR: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/92651

Use VPIRBasicBlock to wrap the middle block and implement patching up
branches in predecessors in VPIRBasicBlock::execute. The IR middle block
is only created after skeleton creation. Initially a regular
VPBasicBlock is created, which will later be replaced by a
VPIRBasicBlock once the middle IR basic block has been created.

Note that this slightly changes the order of instructions created in the
middle block; code generated by recipe execution in the middle block
will now be inserted before the terminator (and in between the compare
to used by the terminator). The original order will be restored in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/92651.


PR: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/95816

This patch starts initial modeling of VF * UF in VPlan.
Initially, introduce a dedicated VFxUF VPValue, which is then
populated during VPlan::prepareToExecute. Initially, the VF * UF
applies only to the main vector loop region. Once we extend the
scope of VPlan in the future, we may want to associate different VFxUFs
with different vector loop regions (e.g. the epilogue vector loop)

This allows explicitly parameterizing recipes that rely on the
VF * UF, like the canonical induction increment. At the moment, this
mainly helps to avoid generating some duplicated calls to vscale with
scalable vectors. It should also allow using EVL as induction increments
explicitly in D99750. Referring to VF * UF is also needed in other
places that we plan to migrate to VPlan, like the minimum trip count
check during skeleton creation.

The first version creates the value for VF * UF directly in
prepareToExecute to limit the scope of the patch. A follow-on patch will
model VF * UF computation explicitly in VPlan using recipes.

Moved from Phabricator (https://reviews.llvm.org/D157322)

UF * VF is loop invariant and can be computed directly in the preheader.
This prepares the code for #74761 and reduces the test changes.

After some discussion and experimentation, we have seen that changing the default number of vector register bits to LMUL=2 strikes a sweet spot.
Whilst we could be clever here and make the vectorizer smarter about dynamically selecting an LMUL that
a) Doesn't affect register pressure
b) Suitable for the microarchitecture
we would need to teach its heuristics about RISC-V register grouping specifics.
Instead this just does the easy, pragmatic thing by changing the default to a safe value that doesn't affect register pressure signifcantly[1], but should increase throughput and unlock more interleaving.

[1] Register spilling when compiling sqlite at various levels of `-riscv-v-register-bit-width-lmul`:

LMUL=1    2573 spills
LMUL=2    2583 spills
LMUL=4    2819 spills
LMUL=8    3256 spills

Reviewed By: craig.topper

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D143723

Instcombine prefers this canonical form (see getPreferredVectorIndex),
as does IRBuilder when passing the index as an integer so we may as
well use the prefered form from creation.

NOTE: All test changes are mechanical with nothing else expected
beyond a change of index type from i32 to i64.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D140983