Improve instruction scheduling for the PPC POWER7
authorHal Finkel <hfinkel@anl.gov>
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:19:11 +0000 (00:19 +0000)
committerHal Finkel <hfinkel@anl.gov>
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:19:11 +0000 (00:19 +0000)
commitf0c1388dd1b5cd6c297a9555aab7d0ade0f33827
treed899364ac151a9ae9e1d3876be100be929661863
parentf15758b1d3b81f90a8c2b18c0487056d049d9bd9
Improve instruction scheduling for the PPC POWER7

Aside from a few minor latency corrections, the major change here is a new
hazard recognizer which focuses on better dispatch-group formation on the
POWER7. As with the PPC970's hazard recognizer, the most important thing it
does is avoid load-after-store hazards within the same dispatch group. It uses
the POWER7's special dispatch-group-terminating nop instruction (instead of
inserting multiple regular nop instructions). This new hazard recognizer makes
use of the scheduling dependency graph itself, built using AA information, to
robustly detect the possibility of load-after-store hazards.

significant test-suite performance changes (the error bars are 99.5% confidence
intervals based on 5 test-suite runs both with and without the change --
speedups are negative):

speedups:

MultiSource/Benchmarks/FreeBench/pcompress2/pcompress2
-0.55171% +/- 0.333168%

MultiSource/Benchmarks/TSVC/CrossingThresholds-dbl/CrossingThresholds-dbl
-17.5576% +/- 14.598%

MultiSource/Benchmarks/TSVC/Reductions-dbl/Reductions-dbl
-29.5708% +/- 7.09058%

MultiSource/Benchmarks/TSVC/Reductions-flt/Reductions-flt
-34.9471% +/- 11.4391%

SingleSource/Benchmarks/BenchmarkGame/puzzle
-25.1347% +/- 11.0104%

SingleSource/Benchmarks/Misc/flops-8
-17.7297% +/- 9.79061%

SingleSource/Benchmarks/Shootout-C++/ary3
-35.5018% +/- 23.9458%

SingleSource/Regression/C/uint64_to_float
-56.3165% +/- 25.4234%

SingleSource/UnitTests/Vectorizer/gcc-loops
-18.5309% +/- 6.8496%

regressions:

MultiSource/Benchmarks/ASCI_Purple/SMG2000/smg2000
18.351% +/- 12.156%

SingleSource/Benchmarks/Shootout-C++/methcall
27.3086% +/- 14.4733%

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@197099 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCHazardRecognizers.cpp
lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCHazardRecognizers.h
lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCInstrFormats.td
lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCInstrInfo.cpp
lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCInstrInfo.h
lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCInstrInfo.td
lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCScheduleP7.td
test/CodeGen/PowerPC/pwr7-gt-nop.ll [new file with mode: 0644]