llvm-6502/lib/Transforms/Scalar
Benjamin Kramer 59957500f9 CodeGenPrepare: Add a transform to turn selects into branches in some cases.
This came up when a change in block placement formed a cmov and slowed down a
hot loop by 50%:

	ucomisd	(%rdi), %xmm0
	cmovbel	%edx, %esi

cmov is a really bad choice in this context because it doesn't get branch
prediction. If we emit it as a branch, an out-of-order CPU can do a better job
(if the branch is predicted right) and avoid waiting for the slow load+compare
instruction to finish. Of course it won't help if the branch is unpredictable,
but those are really rare in practice.

This patch uses a dumb conservative heuristic, it turns all cmovs that have one
use and a direct memory operand into branches. cmovs usually save some code
size, so we disable the transform in -Os mode. In-Order architectures are
unlikely to benefit as well, those are included in the
"predictableSelectIsExpensive" flag.

It would be better to reuse branch probability info here, but BPI doesn't
support select instructions currently. It would make sense to use the same
heuristics as the if-converter pass, which does the opposite direction of this
transform.


Test suite shows a small improvement here and there on corei7-level machines,
but the actual results depend a lot on the used microarchitecture. The
transformation is currently disabled by default and available by passing the
-enable-cgp-select2branch flag to the code generator.

Thanks to Chandler for the initial test case to him and Evan Cheng for providing
me with comments and test-suite numbers that were more stable than mine :)

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@156234 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2012-05-05 12:49:22 +00:00
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ADCE.cpp The landingpad instruction isn't dead simply because it's value isn't used. 2011-08-19 21:52:06 +00:00
BasicBlockPlacement.cpp Get rid of static constructors for pass registration. Instead, every pass exposes an initializeMyPassFunction(), which 2010-10-19 17:21:58 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt build/CMake: Finish removal of add_llvm_library_dependencies. 2011-11-29 19:25:30 +00:00
CodeGenPrepare.cpp CodeGenPrepare: Add a transform to turn selects into branches in some cases. 2012-05-05 12:49:22 +00:00
ConstantProp.cpp Last bit of TargetLibraryInfo propagation. Also fixed a case for TargetData 2011-12-01 21:29:16 +00:00
CorrelatedValuePropagation.cpp llvm::SwitchInst 2012-03-11 06:09:17 +00:00
DCE.cpp Remove unused STL header includes. 2011-04-23 19:53:52 +00:00
DeadStoreElimination.cpp Reverted r152620 - DSE: Shorten memset when a later store overwrites the start of it. There were all sorts of buildbot issues 2012-02-28 05:06:24 +00:00
EarlyCSE.cpp bz11794 : EarlyCSE stack overflow on long functions. 2012-01-31 23:14:41 +00:00
GlobalMerge.cpp Fix various issues (or do cleanups) found by enabling certain MSVC warnings. 2012-02-13 06:30:56 +00:00
GVN.cpp Change recurse depth limit to uint32 to fix warning. 2012-04-27 19:30:32 +00:00
IndVarSimplify.cpp More IndVarSimplify cleanup. 2012-03-24 00:51:17 +00:00
JumpThreading.cpp enhance jump threading to preserve TBAA information when PRE'ing loads, 2012-03-13 18:07:41 +00:00
LICM.cpp An instruction in a loop is not guaranteed to be executed just because the loop 2012-05-01 04:03:01 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt LLVMBuild: Remove trailing newline, which irked me. 2011-12-12 19:48:00 +00:00
LoopDeletion.cpp Don't use PN->replaceUsesOfWith() to change a PHINode's incoming blocks, 2011-06-21 10:02:43 +00:00
LoopIdiomRecognize.cpp Correct grammar. 2011-09-13 00:44:16 +00:00
LoopInstSimplify.cpp Propagate TargetLibraryInfo throughout ConstantFolding.cpp and 2011-12-01 03:08:23 +00:00
LoopRotation.cpp loop-rotate shouldn't hoist alloca instructions out of a loop. Patch by Patrik Hägglund, with slightly modified test. Issue reported by Patrik Hägglund on llvmdev. 2012-02-16 00:41:10 +00:00
LoopStrengthReduce.cpp Make sure HoistInsertPosition finds a position that is dominated by all 2012-04-30 03:53:06 +00:00
LoopUnrollPass.cpp LoopUnrollPass: Use variable "Threshold" instead of "CurrentThreshold" when 2012-04-04 11:44:08 +00:00
LoopUnswitch.cpp Second attempt at PR12573: 2012-04-30 10:44:54 +00:00
LowerAtomic.cpp Remove the old atomic instrinsics. autoupgrade functionality is included with this patch. 2011-10-06 23:20:49 +00:00
Makefile
MemCpyOptimizer.cpp Fix various issues (or do cleanups) found by enabling certain MSVC warnings. 2012-02-13 06:30:56 +00:00
ObjCARC.cpp Miscellaneous accumulated cleanups. 2012-04-27 18:56:31 +00:00
Reassociate.cpp Add 'landingpad' instructions to the list of instructions to ignore. 2012-05-04 04:22:32 +00:00
Reg2Mem.cpp Fix a ton of comment typos found by codespell. Patch by 2011-04-15 05:18:47 +00:00
Scalar.cpp Add a new ObjC ARC optimization pass to eliminate unneeded 2012-01-17 20:52:24 +00:00
ScalarReplAggregates.cpp Typo. 2012-04-11 19:21:58 +00:00
SCCP.cpp Fix 80-column violation. 2012-03-28 00:35:33 +00:00
SimplifyCFGPass.cpp Convert CallInst and InvokeInst APIs to use ArrayRef. 2011-07-15 08:37:34 +00:00
SimplifyLibCalls.cpp fix pr12559: mark unavailable win32 math libcalls 2012-04-17 23:05:54 +00:00
Sink.cpp Move Instruction::isSafeToSpeculativelyExecute out of VMCore and 2011-12-14 23:49:11 +00:00
TailRecursionElimination.cpp A pile of long over-due refactorings here. There are some very, *very* 2012-05-04 00:58:03 +00:00