Fixes a logic error in the MachineScheduler found by Steve Montgomery (and
confirmed by Andy). This has gone unfixed for months because the fix has been
found to introduce some small performance regressions. However, Andy has
recommended that, at this point, we fix this to avoid further dependence on the
incorrect behavior (and then follow-up separately on any regressions), and I
agree.
Fixes PR18883.
llvm-svn: 219512
This handles pathological cases in which we see 2x increase in spill
code for large blocks (~50k instructions). I don't have a unit test
for this behavior.
Fixes rdar://16072279.
llvm-svn: 202304
Fast register pressure tracking currently only takes effect during
bottom up scheduling. Forcing this is a bit faster and simpler for
targets that don't have many scheduling constraints and don't need
top-down scheduling.
llvm-svn: 190014
Created SUPressureDiffs array to hold the per node PDiff computed during DAG building.
Added a getUpwardPressureDelta API that will soon replace the old
one. Compute PressureDelta here from the precomputed PressureDiffs.
Updating for liveness will come next.
llvm-svn: 189640
The previous change to local live range allocation also suppressed
eviction of local ranges. In rare cases, this could result in more
expensive register choices. This commit actually revives a feature
that I added long ago: check if live ranges can be reassigned before
eviction. But now it only happens in rare cases of evicting a local
live range because another local live range wants a cheaper register.
The benefit is improved code size for some benchmarks on x86 and armv7.
I measured no significant compile time increase and performance
changes are noise.
llvm-svn: 187140
Also avoid locals evicting locals just because they want a cheaper register.
Problem: MI Sched knows exactly how many registers we have and assumes
they can be colored. In cases where we have large blocks, usually from
unrolled loops, greedy coloring fails. This is a source of
"regressions" from the MI Scheduler on x86. I noticed this issue on
x86 where we have long chains of two-address defs in the same live
range. It's easy to see this in matrix multiplication benchmarks like
IRSmk and even the unit test misched-matmul.ll.
A fundamental difference between the LLVM register allocator and
conventional graph coloring is that in our model a live range can't
discover its neighbors, it can only verify its neighbors. That's why
we initially went for greedy coloring and added eviction to deal with
the hard cases. However, for singly defined and two-address live
ranges, we can optimally color without visiting neighbors simply by
processing the live ranges in instruction order.
Other beneficial side effects:
It is much easier to understand and debug regalloc for large blocks
when the live ranges are allocated in order. Yes, global allocation is
still very confusing, but it's nice to be able to comprehend what
happened locally.
Heuristics could be added to bias register assignment based on
instruction locality (think late register pairing, banks...).
Intuituvely this will make some test cases that are on the threshold
of register pressure more stable.
llvm-svn: 187139
Replace the ill-defined MinLatency and ILPWindow properties with
with straightforward buffer sizes:
MCSchedMode::MicroOpBufferSize
MCProcResourceDesc::BufferSize
These can be used to more precisely model instruction execution if desired.
Disabled some misched tests temporarily. They'll be reenabled in a few commits.
llvm-svn: 184032
Hal Finkel