Summary:
pickNodeBidirectional tried to compare the best top candidate and the
best bottom candidate by examining TopCand.Reason and BotCand.Reason.
This is unsound because, after calling pickNodeFromQueue, Cand.Reason
does not reflect the most important reason why Cand was chosen. Rather
it reflects the most recent reason why it beat some other potential
candidate, which could have been for some low priority tie breaker
reason.
I have seen this cause problems where TopCand is a good candidate, but
because TopCand.Reason is ORDER (which is very low priority) it is
repeatedly ignored in favour of a mediocre BotCand. This is not how
bidirectional scheduling is supposed to work.
To fix this I changed the code to always compare TopCand and BotCand
directly, like the generic implementation of pickNodeBidirectional does.
This removes some uncommented AMDGPU-specific logic; if this logic turns
out to be important then perhaps it could be moved into an override of
tryCandidate instead.
Graphics shader benchmarking on gfx10 shows a lot more positive than
negative effects from this change.
Reviewers: arsenm, tstellar, rampitec, kzhuravl, vpykhtin, dstuttard, tpr, atrick, MatzeB
Subscribers: jvesely, wdng, nhaehnle, yaxunl, t-tye, hiraditya, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68338
This was creating a select on true/false values, and then comparing
that later. This produced more work for later combines, which can be
avoided by just using the boolean values. This was copied from the
original DAG expansion, which also has the same problem. This doesn't
have a observable change using SelectionDAG, but since GlobalISel is
missing these optimizations, the final code was noticeably longer.
Since natural fdiv lowering is now more conservative even with
denormals disabled, we get a slower expansion from just a plain
1.0/fdiv. Directly emit the rcp intrinsic when using it to implement
integer division to avoid a pointlessly complex sequence.
DAGCombiner does this, but divisions expanded here miss this
optimization. Since 67aa18f165,
divisions have been expanded here and missed out on this
optimization. Avoids test regressions in a future patch.
Jay Foad