X86 ISel: Basic support for variable-index vector permutations
Summary:
Try to lower a BUILD_VECTOR composed of extract-extract chains that can be
reasoned to be a permutation of a vector by indices in a non-constant vector.
We saw this pattern created by ISPC, which resolts to creating it due to the
requirement that shufflevector's mask operand be a *constant* vector.
I didn't check this but we could possibly use this pattern for lowering the X86 permute
C-instrinsics instead of llvm.x86 instrinsics.
This change can be followed by more improvements:
1. Handle vectors with undef elements.
2. Utilize pshufb and zero-mask-blending to support more effiecient
construction of vectors with constant-0 elements.
3. Use smaller-element vectors of same width, and "interpolate" the indices,
when no native operation available.
Reviewers: RKSimon, craig.topper
Reviewed By: RKSimon
Subscribers: chandlerc, DavidKreitzer
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39126
llvm-svn: 317463