Summary:
Some optimizations such as jump threading and loop unswitching can negatively
affect performance when applied to divergent branches. The divergence analysis
added in this patch conservatively estimates which branches in a GPU program
can diverge. This information can then help LLVM to run certain optimizations
selectively.
Test Plan: test/Analysis/DivergenceAnalysis/NVPTX/diverge.ll
Reviewers: resistor, hfinkel, eliben, meheff, jholewinski
Subscribers: broune, bjarke.roune, madhur13490, tstellarAMD, dberlin, echristo, jholewinski, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8576
llvm-svn: 234567
Jingyue Wu