This change enables tracking i1 values in the PowerPC backend using the
condition register bits. These bits can be treated on PowerPC as separate
registers; individual bit operations (and, or, xor, etc.) are supported.
Tracking booleans in CR bits has several advantages:
- Reduction in register pressure (because we no longer need GPRs to store
boolean values).
- Logical operations on booleans can be handled more efficiently; we used to
have to move all results from comparisons into GPRs, perform promoted
logical operations in GPRs, and then move the result back into condition
register bits to be used by conditional branches. This can be very
inefficient, because the throughput of these CR <-> GPR moves have high
latency and low throughput (especially when other associated instructions
are accounted for).
- On the POWER7 and similar cores, we can increase total throughput by using
the CR bits. CR bit operations have a dedicated functional unit.
Most of this is more-or-less mechanical: Adjustments were needed in the
calling-convention code, support was added for spilling/restoring individual
condition-register bits, and conditional branch instruction definitions taking
specific CR bits were added (plus patterns and code for generating bit-level
operations).
This is enabled by default when running at -O2 and higher. For -O0 and -O1,
where the ability to debug is more important, this feature is disabled by
default. Individual CR bits do not have assigned DWARF register numbers,
and storing values in CR bits makes them invisible to the debugger.
It is critical, however, that we don't move i1 values that have been promoted
to larger values (such as those passed as function arguments) into bit
registers only to quickly turn around and move the values back into GPRs (such
as happens when values are returned by functions). A pair of target-specific
DAG combines are added to remove the trunc/extends in:
trunc(binary-ops(binary-ops(zext(x), zext(y)), ...)
and:
zext(binary-ops(binary-ops(trunc(x), trunc(y)), ...)
In short, we only want to use CR bits where some of the i1 values come from
comparisons or are used by conditional branches or selects. To put it another
way, if we can do the entire i1 computation in GPRs, then we probably should
(on the POWER7, the GPR-operation throughput is higher, and for all cores, the
CR <-> GPR moves are expensive).
POWER7 test-suite performance results (from 10 runs in each configuration):
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Misc/mandel-2: 35% speedup
MultiSource/Benchmarks/Prolangs-C++/city/city: 21% speedup
MultiSource/Benchmarks/MiBench/automotive-susan: 23% speedup
SingleSource/Benchmarks/CoyoteBench/huffbench: 13% speedup
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Misc-C++/Large/sphereflake: 13% speedup
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Misc-C++/mandel-text: 10% speedup
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Misc-C++-EH/spirit: 10% slowdown
MultiSource/Applications/lemon/lemon: 8% slowdown
llvm-svn: 202451
The instruction definitions incorrectly specified that popcntd and popcntw have
record forms; they do not. This mistake was causing invalid code generation.
llvm-svn: 195272
The floating-point record forms on PPC don't set the condition register bits
based on a comparison with zero (like the integer record forms do), but rather
based on the exception status bits.
llvm-svn: 181423
When matching a compare with a subtract where the arguments of the compare are
swapped w.r.t. the arguments of the subtract, we need to negate the predicates
(or CR bit indices) of the users. This, however, is not the same as inverting
the predicate (negating LT -> GT, but inverting LT -> GE, for example). The ARM
backend seems to do this correctly, but when I adapted the code for the PPC
backend, I introduced an error in this logic.
Comparison optimization is now enabled again by default.
llvm-svn: 179899
Many PPC instructions have a so-called 'record form' which stores to a specific
condition register the result of comparing the result of the instruction with
zero (always as a signed comparison). For integer operations on PPC64, this is
always a 64-bit comparison.
This implementation is derived from the implementation in the ARM backend;
there are some differences because PPC condition registers are allocatable
virtual registers (although the record forms always use a specific one), and we
look for a matching subtraction instruction after the compare (but before the
first use) in addition to before it.
llvm-svn: 179802
Hal Finkel