on 2021/7/15 下午4:23, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> 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!  It does have the effect to keep XFAILs.  ;)  I guess the case
doesn't care about the costing much just like most vectorization cases?
If so, do you want me to remove the xfails with one extra option 
"-fno-vect-cost-model" along with this patch?

BR,
Kewen

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