Hi,

Gentle ping this series:

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-November/607146.html

BR,
Kewen

> 
>>>>>> on 2022/11/24 17:15, Kewen Lin wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Following Segher's suggestion, this patch series is to rework
>>>>>>> function rs6000_emit_vector_compare for vector float and int
>>>>>>> in multiple steps, it's based on the previous attempts [1][2].
>>>>>>> As mentioned in [1], the need to rework this for float is to
>>>>>>> make a centralized place for vector float comparison handlings
>>>>>>> instead of supporting with swapping ops and reversing code etc.
>>>>>>> dispersedly.  It's also for a subsequent patch to handle
>>>>>>> comparison operators with or without trapping math (PR105480).
>>>>>>> With the handling on vector float reworked, we can further make
>>>>>>> the handling on vector int simplified as shown.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For Segher's concern about whether this rework causes any
>>>>>>> assembly change, I constructed two testcases for vector float[3]
>>>>>>> and int[4] respectively before, it showed the most are fine
>>>>>>> excepting for the difference on LE and UNGT, it's demonstrated
>>>>>>> as improvement since it uses GE instead of GT ior EQ.  The
>>>>>>> associated test case in patch 3/9 is a good example.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Besides, w/ and w/o the whole patch series, I built the whole
>>>>>>> SPEC2017 at options -O3 and -Ofast separately, checked the
>>>>>>> differences on object assembly.  The result showed that the
>>>>>>> most are unchanged, except for:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   * at -O3, 521.wrf_r has 9 object files and 526.blender_r has
>>>>>>>     9 object files with differences.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   * at -Ofast, 521.wrf_r has 12 object files, 526.blender_r has
>>>>>>>     one and 527.cam4_r has 4 object files with differences.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> By looking into these differences, all significant differences
>>>>>>> are caused by the known improvement mentined above transforming
>>>>>>> GT ior EQ to GE, which can also affect unrolling decision due
>>>>>>> to insn count.  Some other trivial differences are branch
>>>>>>> target offset difference, nop difference for alignment, vsx
>>>>>>> register number differences etc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I also evaluated the runtime performance for these changed
>>>>>>> benchmarks, the result is neutral.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> These patches are bootstrapped and regress-tested
>>>>>>> incrementally on powerpc64-linux-gnu P7 & P8, and
>>>>>>> powerpc64le-linux-gnu P9 & P10.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is it ok for trunk?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BR,
>>>>>>> Kewen
>>>>>>> -----
>>>>>>> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-November/606375.html
>>>>>>> [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-November/606376.html
>>>>>>> [3] https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-November/606504.html
>>>>>>> [4] https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-November/606506.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kewen Lin (9):
>>>>>>>   rs6000: Rework vector float comparison in rs6000_emit_vector_compare 
>>>>>>> - p1
>>>>>>>   rs6000: Rework vector float comparison in rs6000_emit_vector_compare 
>>>>>>> - p2
>>>>>>>   rs6000: Rework vector float comparison in rs6000_emit_vector_compare 
>>>>>>> - p3
>>>>>>>   rs6000: Rework vector float comparison in rs6000_emit_vector_compare 
>>>>>>> - p4
>>>>>>>   rs6000: Rework vector integer comparison in 
>>>>>>> rs6000_emit_vector_compare - p1
>>>>>>>   rs6000: Rework vector integer comparison in 
>>>>>>> rs6000_emit_vector_compare - p2
>>>>>>>   rs6000: Rework vector integer comparison in 
>>>>>>> rs6000_emit_vector_compare - p3
>>>>>>>   rs6000: Rework vector integer comparison in 
>>>>>>> rs6000_emit_vector_compare - p4
>>>>>>>   rs6000: Rework vector integer comparison in 
>>>>>>> rs6000_emit_vector_compare - p5
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.cc                 | 180 ++++++--------------
>>>>>>>  gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/powerpc/vcond-fp.c |  25 +++
>>>>>>>  2 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>  create mode 100644 gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/powerpc/vcond-fp.c
>>>>>>>
>>

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