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Commit 3013dadb authored by Nicolas Vasilache's avatar Nicolas Vasilache Committed by jpienaar
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[MLIR] Basic infrastructure for vectorization test

This CL implements a very simple loop vectorization **test** and the basic
infrastructure to support it.

The test simply consists in:
1. matching the loops in the MLFunction and all the Load/Store operations
nested under the loop;
2. testing whether all the Load/Store are contiguous along the innermost
memory dimension along that particular loop. If any reference is
non-contiguous (i.e. the ForStmt SSAValue appears in the expression), then
the loop is not-vectorizable.

The simple test above can gradually be extended with more interesting
behaviors to account for the fact that a layout permutation may exist that
enables contiguity etc. All these will come in due time but it is worthwhile
noting that the test already supports detection of outer-vetorizable loops.

In implementing this test, I also added a recursive MLFunctionMatcher and some
sugar that can capture patterns
such as `auto gemmLike = Doall(Doall(Red(LoadStore())))` and allows iterating
on the matched IR structures. For now it just uses in order traversal but
post-order DFS will be useful in the future once IR rewrites start occuring.

One may note that the memory management design decision follows a different
pattern from MLIR. After evaluating different designs and how they quickly
increase cognitive overhead, I decided to opt for the simplest solution in my
view: a class-wide (threadsafe) RAII context.

This way, a pass that needs MLFunctionMatcher can just have its own locally
scoped BumpPtrAllocator and everything is cleaned up when the pass is destroyed.
If passes are expected to have a longer lifetime, then the contexts can easily
be scoped inside the runOnMLFunction call and storage lifetime reduced.
Lastly, whatever the scope of threading (module, function, pass), this is
expected to also be future-proof wrt concurrency (but this is a detail atm).

PiperOrigin-RevId: 217622889
parent 47e7cd33
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