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Jason Ekstrand
f6667cb0ce nir: Add a memcpy optimization pass
This pass attempts to optimize three broad categories of memcpy:

 1. Self-copies: These we can discard out-of-hand.

 2. Vector copies: It doesn't matter what the vector size is or if the
    source and destination have different vector types, it's still easy
    enough to emit a load/store pair.

 3. Tightly packed copies:  In the case where a type is tightly packed
    (no padding bits), we can replace the memcpy with a copy_deref
    instruction which the optimizer is far better at handling.

This has proven capable of getting rid of many of the memcpy instances
in some rather gnarly OpenCL C kernels I've been looking at, even after
coming out of LLVM's optimizer.

Reviewed-by: Jesse Natalie <jenatali@microsoft.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/6871>
2020-10-02 07:30:49 +00:00