[PATCH] D33341: Enable vectorizer-maximize-bandwidth by default.

[Dehao Chen via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

danielcdh created this revision.
Herald added a subscriber: mzolotukhin.

vectorizer-maximize-bandwidth is generally useful in terms of performance. I've tested the impact of changing this to default on speccpu benchmarks on sandybridge machines. The result shows non-negative impact:

spec/2006/fp/C++/444.namd                 26.84  -0.31%
spec/2006/fp/C++/447.dealII               46.19  +0.89%
spec/2006/fp/C++/450.soplex               42.92  -0.44%
spec/2006/fp/C++/453.povray               38.57  -2.25%
spec/2006/fp/C/433.milc                   24.54  -0.76%
spec/2006/fp/C/470.lbm                    41.08  +0.26%
spec/2006/fp/C/482.sphinx3                47.58  -0.99%
spec/2006/int/C++/471.omnetpp             22.06  +1.87%
spec/2006/int/C++/473.astar               22.65  -0.12%
spec/2006/int/C++/483.xalancbmk           33.69  +4.97%
spec/2006/int/C/400.perlbench             33.43  +1.70%
spec/2006/int/C/401.bzip2                 23.02  -0.19%
spec/2006/int/C/403.gcc                   32.57  -0.43%
spec/2006/int/C/429.mcf                   40.35  +0.27%
spec/2006/int/C/445.gobmk                 26.96  +0.06%
spec/2006/int/C/456.hmmer                  24.4  +0.19%
spec/2006/int/C/458.sjeng                 27.91  -0.08%
spec/2006/int/C/462.libquantum            57.47  -0.20%
spec/2006/int/C/464.h264ref               46.52  +1.35%

geometric mean                                   +0.29%

The regression on 453.povray seems real, but is due to secondary effects as all hot functions are bit-identical with and without the flag.

I started this patch to consult upstream opinions on this. It will be greatly appreciated if the community can help test the performance impact of this change on other architectures so that we can decided if this should be target-dependent.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D33341

Files:
  lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp


Index: lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp
===================================================================
--- lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp
+++ lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
              "value."));
 
 static cl::opt<bool> MaximizeBandwidth(
-    "vectorizer-maximize-bandwidth", cl::init(false), cl::Hidden,
+    "vectorizer-maximize-bandwidth", cl::init(true), cl::Hidden,
     cl::desc("Maximize bandwidth when selecting vectorization factor which "
              "will be determined by the smallest type in loop."));
 


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