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Commit 145d2a50 authored by yijiagu's avatar yijiagu Committed by Eugene Zhulenev
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Add Async Function to the Async Dialect

Add Async Function to the Async Dialect

Today `async.execute` operation semantics requires attached region to be executed in a thread managed by the runtime, and always returns an `!async.token` result. We need to model async functions that are not necessarily executed in a runtime-managed threads, but eventually lowered to llvm coroutines.

Example:

```
async.func @foo(%arg0: !async.value<f32>) -> !async.token {
  %0 = async.await %arg0: !async.value<f32>
  "do_something_with_f32"(%0)
  return
}
```

If `arg0` is available this function will be executed in the caller thread. If it's not available it will be suspended and resumed later later on a thread managed by the async runtime. Currently this is not representable with `async.execute` operations.

The longer term goal is to make async dialect more like https://github.com/lewissbaker/cppcoro to be able to represent structured host concurrency in MLIR.

(1) Add async.func, async.call, and async.return operations in Async Dialect

Reviewed By: ezhulenev, rriddle

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D137189
parent 65b130e3
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