llvm-6502/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/loop-data-prefetch.ll
Hal Finkel 2c5f9584ba [PowerPC] Loop Data Prefetching for the BG/Q
The IBM BG/Q supercomputer's A2 cores have a hardware prefetching unit, the
L1P, but it does not prefetch directly into the A2's L1 cache. Instead, it
prefetches into its own L1P buffer, and the latency to access that buffer is
significantly higher than that to the L1 cache (although smaller than the
latency to the L2 cache). As a result, especially when multiple hardware
threads are not actively busy, explicitly prefetching data into the L1 cache is
advantageous.

I've been using this pass out-of-tree for data prefetching on the BG/Q for well
over a year, and it has worked quite well. It is enabled by default only for
the BG/Q, but can be enabled for other cores as well via a command-line option.

Eventually, we might want to add some TTI interfaces and move this into
Transforms/Scalar (there is nothing particularly target dependent about it,
although only machines like the BG/Q will benefit from its simplistic
strategy).

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@229966 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2015-02-20 05:08:21 +00:00

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; RUN: llc -mcpu=a2 < %s | FileCheck %s
target datalayout = "E-m:e-i64:64-n32:64"
target triple = "powerpc64-bgq-linux"
; Function Attrs: nounwind
define void @foo(double* nocapture %a, double* nocapture readonly %b) #0 {
entry:
br label %for.body
for.body: ; preds = %for.body, %entry
%indvars.iv = phi i64 [ 0, %entry ], [ %indvars.iv.next, %for.body ]
%arrayidx = getelementptr inbounds double* %b, i64 %indvars.iv
%0 = load double* %arrayidx, align 8
%add = fadd double %0, 1.000000e+00
%arrayidx2 = getelementptr inbounds double* %a, i64 %indvars.iv
store double %add, double* %arrayidx2, align 8
%indvars.iv.next = add nuw nsw i64 %indvars.iv, 1
%exitcond = icmp eq i64 %indvars.iv.next, 1600
br i1 %exitcond, label %for.end, label %for.body
for.end: ; preds = %for.body
ret void
; CHECK-LABEL: @foo
; CHECK: dcbt
}
attributes #0 = { nounwind }