Summary:
The Arm Neoverse N1 Software Optimization Guide [1], Section "4.8 Branch
instruction alignment" states:
"Consider aligning subroutine entry points and branch targets to 32B
boundaries, within the bounds of the code-density requirements of the
program."
This patch sets the preferred function alignment on Neoverse N1 to 2^4=16B.
This was already the case in some of the latest Cortex-A CPUs. Benchmarking
in previous Cortex-A CPUs suggested that 16B alignment is already better
than the default. See commit d04ee305.
The reason we don't set it to 32B right now (as the optimisation guide
suggests) is that this will impact code size and perhaps the instruction
cache performance. Therefore we need benchmark numbers first.
I have also added testing for A75 and A76 that we were missing.
[1] https://developer.arm.com/docs/swog309707/latest
Reviewers: fhahn, greened, samparker, dmgreen
Reviewed By: dmgreen
Subscribers: dmgreen, javed.absar, kristof.beyls, hiraditya, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65654
llvm-svn: 367894
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