Add support for ARM NEON targets.

Initial support for ARM NEON on Cortex-A9 and A15 CPUs.  All but ~10 tests
pass, and all examples compile and run correctly.  Most of the examples
show a ~2x speedup on a single A15 core versus scalar code.

Current open issues/TODOs
- Code quality looks decent, but hasn't been carefully examined.  Known
  issues/opportunities for improvement include:
  - fp32 vector divide is done as a series of scalar divides rather than
    a vector divide (which I believe exists, but I may be mistaken.)
    This is particularly harmful to examples/rt, which only runs ~1.5x
    faster with ispc, likely due to long chains of scalar divides.
  - The compiler isn't generating a vmin.f32 for e.g. the final scalar
    min in reduce_min(); instead it's generating a compare and then a
    select instruction (and similarly elsewhere).
  - There are some additional FIXMEs in builtins/target-neon.ll that
    include both a few pieces of missing functionality (e.g. rounding
    doubles) as well as places that deserve attention for possible
    code quality improvements.

- Currently only the "cortex-a9" and "cortex-15" CPU targets are
  supported; LLVM supports many other ARM CPUs and ispc should provide
  access to all of the ones that have NEON support (and aren't too
  obscure.)

- ~5 of the reduce-* tests hit an assertion inside LLVM (unfortunately
   only when the compiler runs on an ARM host, though).

- The Windows build hasn't been tested (though I've tried to update
  ispc.vcxproj appropriately).  It may just work, but will more likely
  have various small issues.)

- Anything related to 64-bit ARM has seen no attention.
This commit is contained in:
Matt Pharr
2013-07-19 11:06:11 -07:00
parent b007bba59f
commit d7b0c5794e
22 changed files with 914 additions and 67 deletions

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@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ LLVM_CXXFLAGS=$(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --cppflags)
LLVM_VERSION=LLVM_$(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --version | sed -e s/\\./_/ -e s/svn//)
LLVM_VERSION_DEF=-D$(LLVM_VERSION)
LLVM_COMPONENTS = engine ipo bitreader bitwriter instrumentation linker
LLVM_COMPONENTS = engine ipo bitreader bitwriter instrumentation linker arm
# Component "option" was introduced in 3.3 and starting with 3.4 it is required for the link step.
# We check if it's available before adding it (to not break 3.2 and earlier).
ifeq ($(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --components |grep -c option), 1)
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ CXX_SRC=ast.cpp builtins.cpp cbackend.cpp ctx.cpp decl.cpp expr.cpp func.cpp \
type.cpp util.cpp
HEADERS=ast.h builtins.h ctx.h decl.h expr.h func.h ispc.h llvmutil.h module.h \
opt.h stmt.h sym.h type.h util.h
TARGETS=avx1 avx1-x2 avx11 avx11-x2 avx2 avx2-x2 sse2 sse2-x2 sse4 sse4-x2 \
TARGETS=neon avx1 avx1-x2 avx11 avx11-x2 avx2 avx2-x2 sse2 sse2-x2 sse4 sse4-x2 \
generic-4 generic-8 generic-16 generic-32 generic-64 generic-1
# These files need to be compiled in two versions - 32 and 64 bits.
BUILTINS_SRC_TARGET=$(addprefix builtins/target-, $(addsuffix .ll, $(TARGETS)))