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Andrea Di Biagio d1569290ef [llvm-mca] Add flag -instruction-tables to print the theoretical resource pressure distribution for instructions (PR36874)
The goal of this patch is to address most of PR36874.  To fully fix PR36874 we
need to split the "InstructionInfo" view from the "SummaryView". That would make
easy to check the latency and rthroughput as well.

The patch reuses all the logic from ResourcePressureView to print out the
"instruction tables".

We have an entry for every instruction in the input sequence. Each entry reports
the theoretical resource pressure distribution. Resource pressure is uniformly
distributed across all the processor resource units of a group.

At the moment, the backend pipeline is not configurable, so the only way to fix
this is by creating a different driver that simply sends instruction events to
the resource pressure view.  That means, we don't use the Backend interface.
Instead, it is simpler to just have a different code-path for when flag
-instruction-tables is specified.

Once Clement addresses bug 36663, then we can port the "instruction tables"
logic into a stage of our configurable pipeline.

Updated the BtVer2 test cases (thanks Simon for the help). Now we pass flag
-instruction-tables to each modified test.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44839

llvm-svn: 328487
2018-03-26 12:04:53 +00:00
Andrea Di Biagio 225d0db4e2 [llvm-mca] Remove unused field in InstrBuilder. NFC
llvm-svn: 328427
2018-03-24 15:48:25 +00:00
Andrea Di Biagio 7b3d162fba [llvm-mca] Use llvm::make_unique in a few places. NFC
Also, clang-format a couple of DEBUG functions.

llvm-svn: 327978
2018-03-20 12:58:34 +00:00
Andrea Di Biagio 4704f0386b [llvm-mca] Move the routine that computes processor resource masks to its own file.
Function computeProcResourceMasks is used by the ResourceManager (owned by the
Scheduler) to compute resource masks for processor resources.  Before this
refactoring, there was an implicit dependency between the Scheduler and the
InstrBuilder. That is because InstrBuilder has to know about resource masks when
computing the set of processor resources consumed by a new instruction.

With this patch, the functionality that computes resource masks has been
extracted from the ResourceManager, and moved to a separate file (Support.h). 
This helps removing the dependency between the Scheduler and the InstrBuilder.

No functional change intended.

llvm-svn: 327973
2018-03-20 12:25:54 +00:00
Andrea Di Biagio 4732d43cae [llvm-mca] Move the logic that updates the register files from InstrBuilder to DispatchUnit. NFCI
Before this patch, the register file was always updated at instruction creation
time. That means, new read-after-write dependencies, and new temporary registers
were allocated at instruction creation time.

This patch refactors the code in InstrBuilder, and move all the logic that
updates the register file into the dispatch unit. We only want to update the
register file when instructions are effectively dispatched (not before).

This refactoring also helps removing a bad dependency between the InstrBuilder
and the DispatchUnit.

No functional change intended.

llvm-svn: 327514
2018-03-14 14:57:23 +00:00
Andrea Di Biagio 3a6b092017 [llvm-mca] LLVM Machine Code Analyzer.
llvm-mca is an LLVM based performance analysis tool that can be used to
statically measure the performance of code, and to help triage potential
problems with target scheduling models.

llvm-mca uses information which is already available in LLVM (e.g. scheduling
models) to statically measure the performance of machine code in a specific cpu.
Performance is measured in terms of throughput as well as processor resource
consumption. The tool currently works for processors with an out-of-order
backend, for which there is a scheduling model available in LLVM.

The main goal of this tool is not just to predict the performance of the code
when run on the target, but also help with diagnosing potential performance
issues.

Given an assembly code sequence, llvm-mca estimates the IPC (instructions per
cycle), as well as hardware resources pressure. The analysis and reporting style
were mostly inspired by the IACA tool from Intel.

This patch is related to the RFC on llvm-dev visible at this link:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-March/121490.html

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43951

llvm-svn: 326998
2018-03-08 13:05:02 +00:00