On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 10:04 AM Kewen.Lin <li...@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Uros,
>
> on 2021/7/15 下午3:17, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 9:07 AM Kewen.Lin <li...@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> on 2021/7/14 下午3:45, Kewen.Lin via Gcc-patches wrote:
> >>> on 2021/7/14 下午2:38, Richard Biener wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 4:59 PM Kewen.Lin <li...@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> on 2021/7/13 下午8:42, Richard Biener wrote:
> >>>>>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 12:25 PM Kewen.Lin <li...@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I guess the proposed IFN would be directly mapped for [us]mul_highpart?
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for confirming!  The related patch v2 is attached and the testing
> >>> is ongoing.
> >>>
> >>
> >> It's bootstrapped & regtested on powerpc64le-linux-gnu P9 and
> >> aarch64-linux-gnu.  But on x86_64-redhat-linux there are XPASSes as below:
> >>
> >> XFAIL->XPASS: gcc.target/i386/pr100637-3w.c scan-assembler pmulhuw
> >> XFAIL->XPASS: gcc.target/i386/pr100637-3w.c scan-assembler pmulhuw
> >> XFAIL->XPASS: gcc.target/i386/pr100637-3w.c scan-assembler pmulhw
> >> XFAIL->XPASS: gcc.target/i386/pr100637-3w.c scan-assembler pmulhw
> >
> > These XFAILs should be removed after your patch.
> >
> I'm curious whether it's intentional not to specify -fno-vect-cost-model
> for this test case.  As noted above, this case is sensitive on how we
> cost mult_highpart.  Without cost modeling, the XFAILs can be removed
> only with this mul_highpart pattern support, no matter how we model it
> (x86 part of this patch exists or not).
>
> > This is PR100696 [1], we want PMULH.W here, so x86 part of the patch
> > is actually not needed.
> >
>
> Thanks for the information!  The justification for the x86 part is that:
> the IFN_MULH essentially covers MULT_HIGHPART_EXPR with mul_highpart
> optab support, i386 port has already customized costing for
> MULT_HIGHPART_EXPR (should mean/involve the case with mul_highpart optab
> support), if we don't follow the same way for IFN_MULH, I'm worried that
> we may cost the IFN_MULH wrongly.  If taking IFN_MULH as normal stmt is
> a right thing (we shouldn't cost it specially), it at least means we
> have to adjust ix86_multiplication_cost for MULT_HIGHPART_EXPR when it
> has direct mul_highpart optab support, I think they should be costed
> consistently.  Does it sound reasonable?

Ah, I was under impression that i386 part was introduced to avoid
generation of PMULHW instructions in the testcases above (to keep
XFAILs). Based on your explanation - yes, the costing function should
be the same. So, the x86 part is OK.

Thanks,
Uros.

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