More specifically, make NVPTXISelDAGToDAG able to emit cached loads (LDG) for pointer induction variables.
Also fix latent bug where LDG was not restricted to kernel functions. I believe that this could not be triggered so far since we do not currently infer that a pointer is global outside a kernel function, and only loads of global pointers are considered for cached loads.
llvm-svn: 244166
Summary:
[NVPTX] make load on global readonly memory to use ldg
Summary:
As describe in [1], ld.global.nc may be used to load memory by nvcc when
__restrict__ is used and compiler can detect whether read-only data cache
is safe to use.
This patch will try to check whether ldg is safe to use and use them to
replace ld.global when possible. This change can improve the performance
by 18~29% on affected kernels (ratt*_kernel and rwdot*_kernel) in
S3D benchmark of shoc [2].
Patched by Xuetian Weng.
[1] http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/kepler-tuning-guide/#read-only-data-cache
[2] https://github.com/vetter/shoc
Test Plan: test/CodeGen/NVPTX/load-with-non-coherent-cache.ll
Reviewers: jholewinski, jingyue
Subscribers: jholewinski, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11314
llvm-svn: 242713
Bjarke Hammersholt Roune