[LLVMdev] [LLVM Dev] [Discussion] Function-based parallel LLVM backend code generation

[Xinliang David Li]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Xinliang David Li <xinliangli at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Ignoring FE time which can be fully parallelized and assuming 10%
>> compile time is spent in serial module passes, 25% time is spent in
>> CGSCC pass, the maximum speed up that can be gained by using function
>> level parallelism is less than 3x.  Even adding support for parallel
>> compilation for leaves of CG in CGSCC pass won't help too much -- the
>> percentage of leaf functions is < 30% in large apps I have seen.
>
>
> Can you clarify what you're basing these assumption on or how you derived
> your data?
>

Those numbers are purely speculative -- does Clang has an option to
dump the time breakout of each passes such as -ftime-report in GCC?

thanks,

David

>>
>> Module based parallelism proposed by Shuxin has max speed up of 10x,
>> assuming body cloning does not add a lot overhead and build farm with
>> hundred/thousands of nodes is used.
>
>
> Body cloning does add some overhead, so that actually needs to be measured.
> Also, many don't have such a build farm.