In this patch we change test cases from using "CHECK" to using
"CHECK-NEXT", which is to ensure the order of loops output by
loop cache analysis is correct. After D124725 we fixed the
non-deterministic output order hence we did not use "CHECK-DAG"
anymore, and now we should really use "CHECK-NEXT" to make sure
the loops in the output loop vector follow the right order.
Reviewed By: bmahjour, #loopoptwg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D124984
The print output of loop cache analysis sometimes has a non-deterministic order
and therefore we have been using `CHECK-DAG` in its lit tests. This patch changes
the sorting of LoopCosts to llvm::stable_sort() where we compare loop cost numbers
and sort the loops. In case of the same loop cost numbers, llvm::stable_sort() now
would output a deterministic loop order.
Reviewed By: Meinersbur, fhahn, #loopoptwg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D124725
Summary: Implement a new analysis to estimate the number of cache lines
required by a loop nest.
The analysis is largely based on the following paper:
Compiler Optimizations for Improving Data Locality
By: Steve Carr, Katherine S. McKinley, Chau-Wen Tseng
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/papers/asplos-1994.pdf
The analysis considers temporal reuse (accesses to the same memory
location) and spatial reuse (accesses to memory locations within a cache
line). For simplicity the analysis considers memory accesses in the
innermost loop in a loop nest, and thus determines the number of cache
lines used when the loop L in loop nest LN is placed in the innermost
position.
The result of the analysis can be used to drive several transformations.
As an example, loop interchange could use it determine which loops in a
perfect loop nest should be interchanged to maximize cache reuse.
Similarly, loop distribution could be enhanced to take into
consideration cache reuse between arrays when distributing a loop to
eliminate vectorization inhibiting dependencies.
The general approach taken to estimate the number of cache lines used by
the memory references in the inner loop of a loop nest is:
Partition memory references that exhibit temporal or spatial reuse into
reference groups.
For each loop L in the a loop nest LN: a. Compute the cost of the
reference group b. Compute the 'cache cost' of the loop nest by summing
up the reference groups costs
For further details of the algorithm please refer to the paper.
Authored By: etiotto
Reviewers: hfinkel, Meinersbur, jdoerfert, kbarton, bmahjour, anemet,
fhahn
Reviewed By: Meinersbur
Subscribers: reames, nemanjai, MaskRay, wuzish, Hahnfeld, xusx595,
venkataramanan.kumar.llvm, greened, dmgreen, steleman, fhahn, xblvaOO,
Whitney, mgorny, hiraditya, mgrang, jsji, llvm-commits
Tag: LLVM
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63459
llvm-svn: 368439
Congzhe Cao