On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 9:42 AM Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 9:40 AM Richard Biener
> <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 3:13 AM liuhongt <hongtao....@intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Currently we have 3 different independent tunes for gather
> > > "use_gather,use_gather_2parts,use_gather_4parts",
> > > similar for scatter, there're
> > > "use_scatter,use_scatter_2parts,use_scatter_4parts"
> > >
> > > The patch support 2 standardizing options to enable/disable
> > > vectorization for all gather/scatter instructions. The options is
> > > interpreted by driver to 3 tunes.
> > >
> > > bootstrapped and regtested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.
> > > Ok for trunk?
> >
> > I think -mgather/-mscatter are too close to -mfma suggesting they
> > enable part of an ISA but they won't disable the use of intrinsics
> > or enable gather/scatter on CPUs where the ISA doesn't have them.
> >
> > May I suggest to invent a more generic "short-cut" to
> > -mtune-ctrl=^X, maybe -mdisable=X?  And for gather/scatter
> > tunables add ^use_gather_any to cover all cases?  (or
> > change what use_gather controls - it seems we changed its
> > meaning before, and instead add use_gather_8parts and
> > use_gather_16parts)
> >
> > That is, what's the point of this?
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/review/downfall
>
> that caused:
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-downfall-benchmarks

Yes, I know.  But there's -mtune-ctl=<very long line> doing the trick.
GCC 11 had only 'use_gather', covering all number of lanes.  I suggest
to resurrect that behavior and add use_gather_8+parts (or two, IIRC
gather works only on SI/SFmode or larger).

Then -mtune-ctl=^use_gather works which I think is nice enough?

Richard.

> Uros.

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