rampitec wrote:

> I've taken another look at this. The patch does not show any benefit from 
> running another `SIFoldOperands` pass _after_ `SIShrinkInstructions` per se; 
> you get exactly the same results (modulo a couple of add instructions that 
> have their operands commuted differently) if you put the second 
> `SIFoldOperands` run _before_ `SIShrinkInstructions` instead.
> 
> In other words `SIFoldOperands` is not idempotent, and the reason for the 
> that seems to be:
> 
> > And the reason it only happens for some SUBREV instructions is even more 
> > convoluted. It's because SIFoldOperands will sometimes shrink 
> > V_SUB_CO_U32_e64 to V_SUBREV_CO_U32_e32 even it does not manage to fold 
> > anything into it. This does seem wrong and is probably worth a closer look.
> 
> This goes back to https://reviews.llvm.org/D51345. Notice how the code that 
> was added to `updateOperand` does the shrinking but does not actually do any 
> folding; it returns before we get to 
> `Old.ChangeToImmediate`/`Old.substVirtReg`. A second run of `SIFoldOperands` 
> will see the shrunk instruction and fold into it.

Yes, this is mostly old targets without no-carry add/sub and the impact is on 
these 2 instructions which needs to be shrunk before folding. Although fold 
operands' shrinking capabilities are really limited compared to the shrink pass.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/67878
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