[RISCV] Transform unaligned RVV vector loads/stores to aligned ones
This patch adds support for loading and storing unaligned vectors via an equivalently-sized i8 vector type, which has support in the RVV specification for byte-aligned access. This offers a more optimal path for handling of unaligned fixed-length vector accesses, which are currently scalarized. It also prevents crashing when `LegalizeDAG` sees an unaligned scalable-vector load/store operation. Future work could be to investigate loading/storing via the largest vector element type for the given alignment, in case that would be more optimal on hardware. For instance, a 4-byte-aligned nxv2i64 vector load could loaded as nxv4i32 instead of as nxv16i8. Reviewed By: craig.topper Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104032
Loading
Please sign in to comment