Avoid unnecessary spills of byval arguments of device functions to
local space on SASS level and subsequent pointer conversion to generic
address space that follows. Instead, make a local copy in IR, provide
a way to access arguments directly, and let LLVM optimize the copy away
when possible.
Differential Review: https://reviews.llvm.org/D21421
llvm-svn: 276153
Avoid unnecessary spills of such vars to local space on SASS level and
pointer space conversion.
Instead, make a local copy with appropriate addrspacecasts and let
LLVM optimize them away when possible.
This allows loading value of the argument using [symbol+offset]
instead of converting argument to general space pointer and using it
for indexing (which also implicitly converts param space pointer to
local space one on SASS level and triggers copying of argument into
local space in the process).
This reduces call overhead, uses less registers and reduces overall
SASS size by 2-4%.
Differential Review: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21421
llvm-svn: 273313
Summary:
For example, in
struct S {
int *x;
int *y;
};
__global__ void foo(S s) {
int *b = s.y;
// use b
}
"b" is guaranteed to point to global. NVPTX should emit ld.global/st.global for
accessing "b".
Reviewers: jholewinski
Subscribers: llvm-commits, jholewinski
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11505
llvm-svn: 243790
Summary:
Some front ends make kernel pointers global already. In that case,
handlePointerParams does nothing.
Test Plan: more tests in lower-kernel-ptr-arg.ll
Reviewers: grosser
Subscribers: jholewinski, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10779
llvm-svn: 240849
Summary:
With this patch, NVPTXLowerKernelArgs converts a kernel pointer argument to a
pointer in the global address space. This change, along with
NVPTXFavorNonGenericAddrSpaces, allows the NVPTX backend to emit ld.global.*
and st.global.* for accessing kernel pointer arguments.
Minor changes:
1. refactor: extract function convertToPointerInAddrSpace
2. fix a bug in the test case in bug21465.ll
Test Plan: lower-kernel-ptr-arg.ll
Reviewers: eliben, meheff, jholewinski
Reviewed By: jholewinski
Subscribers: wengxt, jholewinski, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10154
llvm-svn: 239082
Artem Belevich