[LLVMdev] Enabling MI Scheduler on x86 (was Experimental Evaluation of the Schedulers in LLVM 3.3)

[Andrew Trick]

On Oct 8, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Benjamin Kramer <benny.kra at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05.10.2013, at 08:01, Andrew Trick <atrick at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 25, 2013, at 11:24 PM, Andrew Trick <atrick at apple.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:36 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Andrew Trick <atrick at apple.com> wrote:
>>>> This week, I'll see if we can enable MI scheduling by default for x86. I'm not sure which flags you're using to test it now. But by making it default and enabling the corresponding coalescer changes, we can be confident that benchmarking efforts are improving on the same baseline.
>>>> 
>>>> While I'm generally really excited by this, I would ask for a bit more staging of this change.
>>>> 
>>>> Specifically, I would really like for a single, clear switch to enable exactly what you want benchmark data on *before* it becomes the default, and to give various folks time to run benchmarks and report serious regressions.
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>>>> I don't want our ability to ship LLVM from top-of-tree to be seriously impaired by this, and enabling a feature that can have dramatic performance impact without a giving folks a really simple way to try it out and a period of time to run benchmarks and collect data seems to do that. =/
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>>>> Once it is the default, it would be really good to leave in the single, simple switch for a period of time for folks to disable it if need be.
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>>> I just added a flag: -misched-bench. You can use it to flip back and forth between your target's default SD scheduler and the machine scheduler. It's doesn't affect whether the postRA scheduler is also run.
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>> If there are still no objections, I’ll plan to switch the x86 default to MI scheduler on Monday.
> 
> What happened to this plan?

Distractions. I need to clean up some unit tests first. Otherwise I could flip the switch now.
-Andy
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