We would like to start pushing -mcpu=generic towards enabling the set of
features that improves performance for some CPUs, without hurting any
others. A blend of the performance options hopefully beneficial to all
CPUs. The largest part of that is enabling in-order scheduling using the
Cortex-A55 schedule model. This is similar to the Arm backend change
from eecb353d0e which made -mcpu=generic perform in-order scheduling
using the cortex-a8 schedule model.
The idea is that in-order cpu's require the most help in instruction
scheduling, whereas out-of-order cpus can for the most part out-of-order
schedule around different codegen. Our benchmarking suggests that
hypothesis holds. When running on an in-order core this improved
performance by 3.8% geomean on a set of DSP workloads, 2% geomean on
some other embedded benchmark and between 1% and 1.8% on a set of
singlecore and multicore workloads, all running on a Cortex-A55 cluster.
On an out-of-order cpu the results are a lot more noisy but show flat
performance or an improvement. On the set of DSP and embedded
benchmarks, run on a Cortex-A78 there was a very noisy 1% speed
improvement. Using the most detailed results I could find, SPEC2006 runs
on a Neoverse N1 show a small increase in instruction count (+0.127%),
but a decrease in cycle counts (-0.155%, on average). The instruction
count is very low noise, the cycle count is more noisy with a 0.15%
decrease not being significant. SPEC2k17 shows a small decrease (-0.2%)
in instruction count leading to a -0.296% decrease in cycle count. These
results are within noise margins but tend to show a small improvement in
general.
When specifying an Apple target, clang will set "-target-cpu apple-a7"
on the command line, so should not be affected by this change when
running from clang. This also doesn't enable more runtime unrolling like
-mcpu=cortex-a55 does, only changing the schedule used.
A lot of existing tests have updated. This is a summary of the important
differences:
- Most changes are the same instructions in a different order.
- Sometimes this leads to very minor inefficiencies, such as requiring
an extra mov to move variables into r0/v0 for the return value of a test
function.
- misched-fusion.ll was no longer fusing the pairs of instructions it
should, as per D110561. I've changed the schedule used in the test
for now.
- neon-mla-mls.ll now uses "mul; sub" as opposed to "neg; mla" due to
the different latencies. This seems fine to me.
- Some SVE tests do not always remove movprfx where they did before due
to different register allocation giving different destructive forms.
- The tests argument-blocks-array-of-struct.ll and arm64-windows-calls.ll
produce two LDR where they previously produced an LDP due to
store-pair-suppress kicking in.
- arm64-ldp.ll and arm64-neon-copy.ll are missing pre/postinc on LPD.
- Some tests such as arm64-neon-mul-div.ll and
ragreedy-local-interval-cost.ll have more, less or just different
spilling.
- In aarch64_generated_funcs.ll.generated.expected one part of the
function is no longer outlined. Interestingly if I switch this to use
any other scheduled even less is outlined.
Some of these are expected to happen, such as differences in outlining
or register spilling. There will be places where these result in worse
codegen, places where they are better, with the SPEC instruction counts
suggesting it is not a decrease overall, on average.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D110830
It is generally beneficial to prefer "movi d0, #0" over "fmov s0, wzr" as this
is most efficient across all cores; it is recognised as a zeroing idiom. For
newer cores, fmov instructions can also be eliminated early and there is no
difference with movi, but some implementations lack this so is not true for
other/older cores. Thus this standardises on using movi as this should always
gives the same or better performance than the fmov with wzr.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99586
This was using the .2d variant which zeros 128 bits, but using the .2s variant
that zeros 64 bits is faster on some cores.
This is a prep step for D99586 to always using movi for zeroing floats.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99710
tryLatency compares two sched candidates. For the top zone it prefers
the one with lesser depth, but only if that depth is greater than the
total latency of the instructions we've already scheduled -- otherwise
its latency would be hidden and there would be no stall.
Unfortunately it only tests the depth of one of the candidates. This can
lead to situations where the TopDepthReduce heuristic does not kick in,
but a lower priority heuristic chooses the other candidate, whose depth
*is* greater than the already scheduled latency, which causes a stall.
The fix is to apply the heuristic if the depth of *either* candidate is
greater than the already scheduled latency.
All this also applies to the BotHeightReduce heuristic in the bottom
zone.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72392
Apple's CPUs are called A7-A13 in official communication, occasionally with
weird suffixes which we probably don't need to care about. This adds each one
and describes its features. It also switches the default CPU to the canonical
name for Cyclone, but leaves legacy support in so that existing bitcode still
compiles.
Currently a vector move of 0 or -1 will use different instructions depending on
the size of the vector. Using a single instruction (the 128-bit one) for both
gives more opportunity for Machine CSE to eliminate instructions.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53579
llvm-svn: 345270
Split the `zcz` feature into specific ones got GP and FP registers, `zcz-gp`
and `zcz-fp`, respectively, while retaining the original feature option to
mean both.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52621
llvm-svn: 343354
We were generating "fmov h0, wzr" instructions when FullFP16 is not enabled.
I've not added any tests, because the problem was visible in:
test/CodeGen/AArch64/arm64-zero-cycle-zeroing.ll,
which I had to change: I don't think Cyclone has FullFP16 enabled
by default, so it shouldn't be using this v8.2a instruction.
I've also removed these rdar tags, please shout if there are any objections.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43020
llvm-svn: 324581
For Cylone, the instruction "movi.2d vD, #0" is executed incorrectly in some rare
circumstances. Work around the issue conservatively by avoiding the instruction entirely.
This patch changes CodeGen so that problematic instructions are never
generated, and the AsmParser so that an equivalent instruction is used (with a
warning).
llvm-svn: 320965
If a subtarget has both ZCZeroing and CustomCheapAsMoveHandling features (now
only Kryo has both), set FMOVS0 and FMOVD0 isAsCheapAsAMove.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D22256
llvm-svn: 275178
On CPUs with the zero cycle zeroing feature enabled "movi v.2d" should
be used to zero a vector register. This was previously done at
instruction selection time, however the register coalescer sometimes
widened multiple vregs to the Q width because of that leading to extra
spills. This patch leaves the decision on how to zero a register to the
AsmPrinter phase where it doesn't affect register allocation anymore.
This patch also sets isAsCheapAsAMove=1 on FMOVS0, FMOVD0.
This fixes http://llvm.org/PR27454, rdar://25866262
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21826
llvm-svn: 274686
The backend has been around for years, it's pretty ridiculous that we can't
even use the preferred form for printing "MOV" aliases. Unfortunately, TableGen
can't handle the complex predicates when printing so it's a bunch of nasty C++.
Oh well.
llvm-svn: 272865
This commit starts with a "git mv ARM64 AArch64" and continues out
from there, renaming the C++ classes, intrinsics, and other
target-local objects for consistency.
"ARM64" test directories are also moved, and tests that began their
life in ARM64 use an arm64 triple, those from AArch64 use an aarch64
triple. Both should be equivalent though.
This finishes the AArch64 merge, and everyone should feel free to
continue committing as normal now.
llvm-svn: 209577
David Green