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Commit dde2a7fb authored by Philip Reames's avatar Philip Reames Committed by Philip Reames
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[RISCV] Exploit fact that vscale is always power of two to replace urem sequence

When doing scalable vectorization, the loop vectorizer uses a urem in the computation of the vector trip count. The RHS of that urem is a (possibly shifted) call to @llvm.vscale.

vscale is effectively the number of "blocks" in the vector register. (That is, types such as <vscale x 8 x i8> and <vscale x 1 x i8> both fill one 64 bit block, and vscale is essentially how many of those blocks there are in a single vector register at runtime.)

We know from the RISCV V extension specification that VLEN must be a power of two between ELEN and 2^16. Since our block size is 64 bits, the must be a power of two numbers of blocks. (For everything other than VLEN<=32, but that's already broken.)

It is worth noting that AArch64 SVE specification explicitly allows non-power-of-two sizes for the vector registers and thus can't claim that vscale is a power of two by this logic.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129609
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