Current findBestLoopTop can find and move one kind of block to top, a latch block has one successor. Another common case is:
* a latch block
* it has two successors, one is loop header, another is exit
* it has more than one predecessors
If it is below one of its predecessors P, only P can fall through to it, all other predecessors need a jump to it, and another conditional jump to loop header. If it is moved before loop header, all its predecessors jump to it, then fall through to loop header. So all its predecessors except P can reduce one taken branch.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43256
llvm-svn: 363471
This patch adds assembler support for the remaining branch instructions:
the non-relative branch on count variants, and all variants of branch
on index.
The only one of those that can be readily exploited for code generation
is BRCTH (branch on count using a high 32-bit register as count). Do
use it, however, it is necessary to also introduce a hew CHIMux pseudo
to allow comparisons of a 32-bit value agains a short immediate to go
into a high register as well (implemented via CHI/CIH).
This causes a bit of codegen changes overall, but those have proven to
be neutral (or even beneficial) in performance measurements.
llvm-svn: 288029
Guozhi Wei