Compare the critical paths of the two traces through an if-conversion
candidate. If the difference is larger than the branch brediction
penalty, reject the if-conversion. If would never pay.
llvm-svn: 161433
This is still a work in progress.
Out-of-order CPUs usually execute instructions from multiple basic
blocks simultaneously, so it is necessary to look at longer traces when
estimating the performance effects of code transformations.
The MachineTraceMetrics analysis will pick a typical trace through a
given basic block and provide performance metrics for the trace. Metrics
will include:
- Instruction count through the trace.
- Issue count per functional unit.
- Critical path length, and per-instruction 'slack'.
These metrics can be used to determine the performance limiting factor
when executing the trace, and how it will be affected by a code
transformation.
Initially, this will be used by the early if-conversion pass.
llvm-svn: 160796
This ordering allows nested if-conversion without using a work list, and
it makes it possible to update the dominator tree on the fly as well.
Any erased basic blocks will always be dominated by the current
post-order position, so the domtree can be pruned without invalidating
the iterator.
llvm-svn: 160025
This pass performs if-conversion on SSA form machine code by
speculatively executing both sides of the branch and using a cmov
instruction to select the result. This can help lower the number of
branch mispredictions on architectures like x86 that don't have
predicable instructions.
The current implementation is very aggressive, and causes regressions on
mosts tests. It needs good heuristics that have yet to be implemented.
llvm-svn: 159694
Jakob Stoklund Olesen