This patch adds the ability to describe properties of the hardware retire
control unit.
Tablegen class RetireControlUnit has been added for this purpose (see
TargetSchedule.td).
A RetireControlUnit specifies the size of the reorder buffer, as well as the
maximum number of opcodes that can be retired every cycle.
A zero (or negative) value for the reorder buffer size means: "the size is
unknown". If the size is unknown, then llvm-mca defaults it to the value of
field SchedMachineModel::MicroOpBufferSize. A zero or negative number of
opcodes retired per cycle means: "there is no restriction on the number of
instructions that can be retired every cycle".
Models can optionally specify an instance of RetireControlUnit. There can only
be up-to one RetireControlUnit definition per scheduling model.
Information related to the RCU (RetireControlUnit) is stored in (two new fields
of) MCExtraProcessorInfo. llvm-mca loads that information when it initializes
the DispatchUnit / RetireControlUnit (see Dispatch.h/Dispatch.cpp).
This patch fixes PR36661.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45259
llvm-svn: 329304
This is done in preparation for D45259.
With D45259, models can specify the size of the reorder buffer, and the retire
throughput directly via tablegen.
llvm-svn: 329274
This patch allows the description of register files in processor scheduling
models. This addresses PR36662.
A new tablegen class named 'RegisterFile' has been added to TargetSchedule.td.
Targets can optionally describe register files for their processors using that
class. In particular, class RegisterFile allows to specify:
- The total number of physical registers.
- Which target registers are accessible through the register file.
- The cost of allocating a register at register renaming stage.
Example (from this patch - see file X86/X86ScheduleBtVer2.td)
def FpuPRF : RegisterFile<72, [VR64, VR128, VR256], [1, 1, 2]>
Here, FpuPRF describes a register file for MMX/XMM/YMM registers. On Jaguar
(btver2), a YMM register definition consumes 2 physical registers, while MMX/XMM
register definitions only cost 1 physical register.
The syntax allows to specify an empty set of register classes. An empty set of
register classes means: this register file models all the registers specified by
the Target. For each register class, users can specify an optional register
cost. By default, register costs default to 1. A value of 0 for the number of
physical registers means: "this register file has an unbounded number of
physical registers".
This patch is structured in two parts.
* Part 1 - MC/Tablegen *
A first part adds the tablegen definition of RegisterFile, and teaches the
SubtargetEmitter how to emit information related to register files.
Information about register files is accessible through an instance of
MCExtraProcessorInfo.
The idea behind this design is to logically partition the processor description
which is only used by external tools (like llvm-mca) from the processor
information used by the llvm machine schedulers.
I think that this design would make easier for targets to get rid of the extra
processor information if they don't want it.
* Part 2 - llvm-mca related *
The second part of this patch is related to changes to llvm-mca.
The main differences are:
1) class RegisterFile now needs to take into account the "cost of a register"
when allocating physical registers at register renaming stage.
2) Point 1. triggered a minor refactoring which lef to the removal of the
"maximum 32 register files" restriction.
3) The BackendStatistics view has been updated so that we can print out extra
details related to each register file implemented by the processor.
The effect of point 3. is also visible in tests register-files-[1..5].s.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44980
llvm-svn: 329067
With this patch, the "instruction dispatched" event now provides information
related to the number of microarchitectural registers used in each register
file. Similarly, the "instruction retired" event is now able to tell how may
registers are freed in each register file.
Currently, the BackendStatistics view is the only consumer of register
usage/pressure information. BackendStatistics uses that info to print out a few
general statistics (i.e. max number of mappings used; total mapping created).
Before this patch, the BackendStatistics was forced to query the Backend to
obtain the register pressure information.
This helps removes that dependency. Now views are completely independent from
the Backend. As a consequence, it should be easier to address PR36663 and
further modularize the pipeline.
Added a couple of test cases in the BtVer2 specific directory.
llvm-svn: 328129
This patch introduces a new class named HWStallEvent (see HWEventListener.h),
and updates the event listener interface. A HWStallEvent represents a pipeline
stall caused by the lack of hardware resources. Similarly to HWInstructionEvent,
the event type is an unsigned, and the exact meaning depends on the subtarget.
At the moment, HWStallEvent supports a few generic dispatch events.
The main goals of this patch is to remove the logic that counts dispatch stalls
from the DispatchUnit to the BackendStatistics view.
Previously, DispatchUnit was responsible for counting and classifying dispatch
stall events. With this patch, we delegate the task of counting and classifying
stall events to the listeners (i.e. in our case, it is view
"BackendStatistics"). So, the DispatchUnit doesn't have to do extra
(unnecessary) bookkeeping.
This patch also helps futher simplifying the Backend interface. Now class
BackendStatistics no longer has to query the Backend interface to obtain the
number of dispatch stalls. As a consequence, we can get rid of all the
'getNumXXX()' methods from class Backend.
The long term goal is to remove all the remaining dependencies between the
Backend and the BackendStatistics interface.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44621
llvm-svn: 327837
This is a refactoring in preparation for other two changes that will allow
scheduling models to define multiple register files. This is the first step
towards fixing PR36662.
class RegisterFile (in Dispatch.h) now can emulate multiple register files.
Internally, it tracks the number of available physical registers in each
register file (described by class RegisterFileInfo).
Each register file is associated to a list of MCRegisterClass indices. Knowing
the register class indices allows to map physical registers to register files.
The long term goal is to allow processor models to optionally specify how many
register files are implemented via tablegen.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44488
llvm-svn: 327798
Now both method DispatchUnit::checkRAT() and DispatchUnit::canDispatch take as
input an Instruction refrence instead of an instruction descriptor.
This was requested by Simon in D44488 to simplify the diff.
llvm-svn: 327640
Before this patch, the register file was always updated at instruction creation
time. That means, new read-after-write dependencies, and new temporary registers
were allocated at instruction creation time.
This patch refactors the code in InstrBuilder, and move all the logic that
updates the register file into the dispatch unit. We only want to update the
register file when instructions are effectively dispatched (not before).
This refactoring also helps removing a bad dependency between the InstrBuilder
and the DispatchUnit.
No functional change intended.
llvm-svn: 327514
llvm-mca is an LLVM based performance analysis tool that can be used to
statically measure the performance of code, and to help triage potential
problems with target scheduling models.
llvm-mca uses information which is already available in LLVM (e.g. scheduling
models) to statically measure the performance of machine code in a specific cpu.
Performance is measured in terms of throughput as well as processor resource
consumption. The tool currently works for processors with an out-of-order
backend, for which there is a scheduling model available in LLVM.
The main goal of this tool is not just to predict the performance of the code
when run on the target, but also help with diagnosing potential performance
issues.
Given an assembly code sequence, llvm-mca estimates the IPC (instructions per
cycle), as well as hardware resources pressure. The analysis and reporting style
were mostly inspired by the IACA tool from Intel.
This patch is related to the RFC on llvm-dev visible at this link:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-March/121490.html
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43951
llvm-svn: 326998
Andrea Di Biagio