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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Philip Reames <</span><a href="mailto:listmail@philipreames.com" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">listmail@philipreames.com</a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>mardi 8 septembre 2015 12:50<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Benoit Belley <<a href="mailto:benoit.belley@autodesk.com">benoit.belley@autodesk.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [llvm-dev] LLVM struct, alloca, SROA and the entry basic block<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/08/2015 07:21 AM, Benoit Belley via llvm-dev wrote:<br>
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Hi everyone,</div>
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We have noticed that the SROA pass will only eliminate ‘alloca’ instructions if those are located in the entry basic block of a function.</div>
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<div><i><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>As a general recommendation, should the LLVM IR emitted by our compiler always place ‘alloca’ instructions in the entry basic block ? (I couldn’t find any recommendations concerning this matter.)</b></font></i></div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Yes. </font><br>
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<div>Thanks Phil. Should this be mentioned somewhere in the documentation ? As a footnote in the LLVM Language Reference manual maybe ?</div>
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<div>As a note, I have also find out that alloca instructions should be placed before any call instructions as these can get inlined and then, the original alloca can no longer by placed in the entry basic block!</div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">In addition, we have noticed that the MemCpy pass will attempt to copy LLVM struct using moves that are as large as possible. </font>For example, a struct of 3 floats is copied using a 64-bit and a 32-bit move. It is therefore
important that such a struct be aligned on 8-byte boundary, not just 4 bytes! Else, one runs the risk of triggering store-forwarding failure pipelining stalls (which we did encountered really badly with one of our internal performance benchmark).</div>
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This sounds like a bug to me. We shouldn't be using the large load/stores without knowing they're aligned or that unaligned access is fast on a particular target. Where this is best fixed (memcpy, store lowering?) I don't know.
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<div>I’ll send out a test case. Maybe, that will help.</div>
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<div><b><i>Is there any guidelines for specifying the alignment of LLVM structs allocated by alloca instructions ? Is rounding down to the structure size to the next power of 2 a good strategy ? Will the MemCpy pass issue moves of up to 64-bytes on AVX-512
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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