The benchmarking summarized in
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-May/113525.html showed
this is beneficial for a wide range of cores.
As is to be expected, quite a few small adaptations are needed to the
regressions tests, as the difference in scheduling results in:
- Quite a few small instruction schedule differences.
- A few changes in register allocation decisions caused by different
instruction schedules.
- A few changes in IfConversion decisions, due to a difference in
instruction schedule and/or the estimated cost of a branch mispredict.
llvm-svn: 306514
Currently, when edge weights are assigned to edges that are created when lowering switch statement, the weight on the edge to default statement (let's call it "default weight" here) is not considered. We need to distribute this weight properly. However, without value profiling, we have no idea how to distribute it. In this patch, I applied the heuristic that this weight is evenly distributed to successors.
For example, given a switch statement with cases 1,2,3,5,10,11,20, and every edge from switch to each successor has weight 10. If there is a binary search tree built to test if n < 10, then its two out-edges will have weight 4x10+10/2 = 45 and 3x10 + 10/2 = 35 respectively (currently they are 40 and 30 without considering the default weight). Each distribution (which is 5 here) will be stored in each SwitchWorkListItem for further distribution.
There are some exceptions:
For a jump table header which doesn't have any edge to default statement, we don't distribute the default weight to it.
For a bit test header which covers a contiguous range and hence has no edges to default statement, we don't distribute the default weight to it.
When the branch checks a single value or a contiguous range with no edge to default statement, we don't distribute the default weight to it.
In other cases, the default weight is evenly distributed to successors.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12418
llvm-svn: 246522
Currently, when lowering switch statement and a new basic block is built for jump table / bit test header, the edge to this new block is not assigned with a correct weight. This patch collects the edge weight from all its successors and assign this sum of weights to the edge (and also the other fall-through edge). Test cases are adjusted accordingly.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12166#fae6eca7
llvm-svn: 246104
The original version didn't properly account for the base register
being modified before the final jump, so caused miscompilations in
Chromium and LLVM. I've fixed this and tested with an LLVM self-host
(I don't have the means to build & test Chromium).
The general idea remains the same: in pathological cases jump tables
can be too far away from the instructions referencing them (like other
constants) so they need to be movable.
Should fix PR23627.
llvm-svn: 238680
Previously, they were forced to immediately follow the actual branch
instruction. This was usually OK (the LEAs actually accessing them got emitted
nearby, and weren't usually separated much afterwards). Unfortunately, a
sufficiently nasty phi elimination dumps many instructions right before the
basic block terminator, and this can increase the range too much.
This patch frees them up to be placed as usual by the constant islands pass,
and consequently has to slightly modify the form of TBB/TBH tables to refer to
a PC-relative label at the final jump. The other jump table formats were
already position-independent.
rdar://20813304
llvm-svn: 237590
Kristof Beyls