[gcc(refs/users/meissner/heads/work235-sha)] PR target/117251: Improve vector nor to vector nand fusion
Michael Meissner
meissner@gcc.gnu.org
Fri Jan 30 22:14:08 GMT 2026
https://gcc.gnu.org/g:3d4e0ea21badae4c3088cb5eb32f5dcfaaa3fc08
commit 3d4e0ea21badae4c3088cb5eb32f5dcfaaa3fc08
Author: Michael Meissner <meissner@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Fri Jan 30 17:06:23 2026 -0500
PR target/117251: Improve vector nor to vector nand fusion
See the following post for a complete explanation of what the patches
for PR target/117251:
* https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2025-June/686474.html
This is patch #40 of 45 to generate the 'XXEVAL' instruction on power10
and power11 instead of using the Altivec 'VNOR' instruction feeding
into 'VNAND'. The 'XXEVAL' instruction can use all 64 vector
registers, instead of the 32 registers that traditional Altivec vector
instructions use. By allowing all of the vector registers to be used,
it reduces the amount of spilling that a large benchmark generated.
Currently the following code:
vector int a, b, c, d;
a = ~ ((~ (c | d)) & b);
Generates:
vnor t,c,d
vnand a,t,b
Now in addition with this patch, if the arguments or result is
allocated to a traditional FPR register, the GCC compiler will now
generate the following code instead of adding vector move instructions:
xxeval a,b,c,247
Since fusion using 2 Altivec instructions is slightly faster than using
the 'XXEVAL' instruction we prefer to generate the Altivec instructions
if we can. In addition, because 'XXEVAL' is a prefixed instruction, it
possibly might generate an extra NOP instruction to align the 'XXEVAL'
instruction.
I have tested these patches on both big endian and little endian
PowerPC servers, with no regressions. Can I check these patchs into
the trunk?
2026-01-30 Michael Meissner <meissner@linux.ibm.com>
gcc/
PR target/117251
* config/rs6000/fusion.md: Regenerate.
* config/rs6000/genfusion.pl (gen_logical_addsubf): Add support
to generate vector nor => nand fusion if XXEVAL is supported.
Diff:
---
gcc/config/rs6000/fusion.md | 15 +++++++++------
gcc/config/rs6000/genfusion.pl | 1 +
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gcc/config/rs6000/fusion.md b/gcc/config/rs6000/fusion.md
index 2d355c435b29..11c1d95dc110 100644
--- a/gcc/config/rs6000/fusion.md
+++ b/gcc/config/rs6000/fusion.md
@@ -2414,20 +2414,23 @@
;; logical-logical fusion pattern generated by gen_logical_addsubf
;; vector vnor -> vnand
(define_insn "*fuse_vnor_vnand"
- [(set (match_operand:VM 3 "altivec_register_operand" "=&0,&1,&v,v")
- (ior:VM (not:VM (and:VM (not:VM (match_operand:VM 0 "altivec_register_operand" "v,v,v,v"))
- (not:VM (match_operand:VM 1 "altivec_register_operand" "v,v,v,v"))))
- (not:VM (match_operand:VM 2 "altivec_register_operand" "v,v,v,v"))))
- (clobber (match_scratch:VM 4 "=X,X,X,&v"))]
+ [(set (match_operand:VM 3 "vector_fusion_operand" "=&0,&1,&v,wa,v")
+ (ior:VM (not:VM (and:VM (not:VM (match_operand:VM 0 "vector_fusion_operand" "v,v,v,wa,v"))
+ (not:VM (match_operand:VM 1 "vector_fusion_operand" "v,v,v,wa,v"))))
+ (not:VM (match_operand:VM 2 "vector_fusion_operand" "v,v,v,wa,v"))))
+ (clobber (match_scratch:VM 4 "=X,X,X,X,&v"))]
"(TARGET_P10_FUSION)"
"@
vnor %3,%1,%0\;vnand %3,%3,%2
vnor %3,%1,%0\;vnand %3,%3,%2
vnor %3,%1,%0\;vnand %3,%3,%2
+ xxeval %x3,%x2,%x1,%x0,247
vnor %4,%1,%0\;vnand %3,%4,%2"
[(set_attr "type" "fused_vector")
(set_attr "cost" "6")
- (set_attr "length" "8")])
+ (set_attr "length" "8")
+ (set_attr "prefixed" "*,*,*,yes,*")
+ (set_attr "isa" "*,*,*,xxeval,*")])
;; logical-logical fusion pattern generated by gen_logical_addsubf
;; vector vor -> vnand
diff --git a/gcc/config/rs6000/genfusion.pl b/gcc/config/rs6000/genfusion.pl
index 9ba1ed618dee..73111836a319 100755
--- a/gcc/config/rs6000/genfusion.pl
+++ b/gcc/config/rs6000/genfusion.pl
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ sub gen_logical_addsubf
"vnand_vnand" => 241,
"vorc_vnand" => 244,
"veqv_vnand" => 246,
+ "vnor_vnand" => 247,
);
KIND: foreach $kind ('scalar','vector') {
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