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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you for information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’ll build clang without the hack and re-run the benchmark tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-Evgeny<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Sanjay Patel [mailto:spatel@rotateright.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 22, 2017 8:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Evgeny Astigeevich<br>
<b>Cc:</b> llvm-dev; nd<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [InstCombine] rL292492 affected LoopVectorizer and caused 17.30%/11.37% perf regressions on Cortex-A53/Cortex-A15 LNT machines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">> Do you mean to remove the hack in InstCombiner::visitICmpInst()?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yes. Although (this just came up in D28625 too) we might need to remove multiple versions of that
in order to unlock optimization:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCompares.cpp#L4338" target="_blank">https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCompares.cpp#L4338</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCasts.cpp#L470" target="_blank">https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCasts.cpp#L470</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineSimplifyDemanded.cpp#L409">https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineSimplifyDemanded.cpp#L409</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Similar for FP:<br>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCompares.cpp#L4780" target="_blank">https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCompares.cpp#L4780</a></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCasts.cpp#L1376" target="_blank">https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCasts.cpp#L1376</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Evgeny Astigeevich <<a href="mailto:Evgeny.Astigeevich@arm.com" target="_blank">Evgeny.Astigeevich@arm.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Sanjay,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The benchmark source file:
<a href="http://www.llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk/SingleSource/Benchmarks/Shootout/sieve.c?view=markup" target="_blank">
http://www.llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk/SingleSource/Benchmarks/Shootout/sieve.c?view=markup</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Clang options used to produce the initial IR: clang -DNDEBUG -O3 -DNDEBUG -mcpu=cortex-a53 -fomit-frame-pointer
-O3 -DNDEBUG -w -Werror=date-time -c sieve.c -S -emit-llvm -mllvm -disable-llvm-optzns --target=aarch64-arm-linux</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Opt options: opt -O3 -o /dev/null -print-before-all -print-after-all sieve.ll >& sieve.log</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I used the IR (in attached sieve.zip) created with the r292487 version.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The attached sieve contains the output of ‘-print-before-all -print-after-all’ for r292487 and rL292492.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>If it's possible, can you remove that check locally, rebuild,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">> and try the benchmark again on your system? I'd love to know<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">> if that change alone would solve the problem.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Do you mean to remove the hack in InstCombiner::visitICmpInst()?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Kind regards,<br>
Evgeny Astigeevich<br>
Senior Compiler Engineer<br>
Compilation Tools<br>
ARM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 20, 2017 6:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Evgeny Astigeevich<br>
<b>Cc:</b> llvm-dev; Renato Golin; <a href="mailto:t.p.northover@gmail.com" target="_blank">
t.p.northover@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:hfinkel@anl.gov" target="_blank">hfinkel@anl.gov</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [InstCombine] rL292492 affected LoopVectorizer and caused 17.30%/11.37% perf regressions on Cortex-A53/Cortex-A15 LNT machines</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks for letting me know about this problem!<br>
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There's no 'shl nsw' visible in the earlier (r292487) code, so it would be better to see exactly what the IR looks like before that added transform fires.<o:p></o:p></p>
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But I see a red flag:<br>
%smax = select i1 %11, i64 %10, i64 8193<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt">The new icmp transform allowed us to create an smax, but we have this hack in InstCombiner::visitICmpInst():<br>
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// Test if the ICmpInst instruction is used exclusively by a select as<br>
// part of a minimum or maximum operation. If so, refrain from doing<br>
// any other folding. This helps out other analyses which understand<br>
// non-obfuscated minimum and maximum idioms, such as ScalarEvolution<br>
// and CodeGen. And in this case, at least one of the comparison<br>
// operands has at least one user besides the compare (the select),<br>
// which would often largely negate the benefit of folding anyway.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt">...so that prevented folding the icmp into the earlier math.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I am actively working on trying to get rid of that bail-out by improving min/max value tracking and icmp/select folding. In fact, we might be able to remove it right now, but I
don't know the history of that code or what cases it was supposed to help.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Evgeny Astigeevich <<a href="mailto:Evgeny.Astigeevich@arm.com" target="_blank">Evgeny.Astigeevich@arm.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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We found that today's 17.30%/11.37% performance regressions in LNT SingleSource/Benchmarks/Shootout/sieve on LNT-AArch64-A53-O3__clang_DEV__aarch64 and LNT-Thumb2v7-A15-O3__clang_DEV__thumbv7 (<a href="http://llvm.org/perf/db_default/v4/nts/daily_report/2017/1/20?filter-machine-regex=aarch64%7Carm%7Cthumb%7Cgreen" target="_blank">http://llvm.org/perf/db_default/v4/nts/daily_report/2017/1/20?filter-machine-regex=aarch64%7Carm%7Cthumb%7Cgreen</a>)
are caused by changes [rL292492] in InstCombine:<br>
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<a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D28406" target="_blank">https://reviews.llvm.org/D28406</a> "[InstCombine] icmp sgt (shl nsw X, C1), C0 --> icmp sgt X, C0 >> C1"<br>
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The Loop Vectorizer generates code with more instructions:<br>
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==== Loop Vectorizer from rL292492 ====<br>
for.body5: ; preds = %for.inc16.for.body5_crit_edge, %for.cond.preheader<br>
%indvar = phi i64 [ %indvar.next, %for.inc16.for.body5_crit_edge ], [ 0, %for.cond.preheader ]<br>
%1 = phi i8 [ %.pre, %for.inc16.for.body5_crit_edge ], [ 1, %for.cond.preheader ]<br>
%count.122 = phi i32 [ %count.2, %for.inc16.for.body5_crit_edge ], [ 0, %for.cond.preheader ]<br>
%i.119 = phi i64 [ %inc17, %for.inc16.for.body5_crit_edge ], [ 2, %for.cond.preheader ]<br>
%2 = add i64 %indvar, 2<br>
%3 = shl i64 %indvar, 1<br>
%4 = add i64 %3, 4<br>
%5 = add i64 %indvar, 2<br>
%6 = shl i64 %indvar, 1<br>
%7 = add i64 %6, 4<br>
%8 = add i64 %indvar, 2<br>
%9 = mul i64 %indvar, 3<br>
%10 = add i64 %9, 6<br>
%11 = icmp sgt i64 %10, 8193<br>
%smax = select i1 %11, i64 %10, i64 8193<br>
%12 = mul i64 %indvar, -2<br>
%13 = add i64 %12, -5<br>
%14 = add i64 %smax, %13<br>
%15 = add i64 %indvar, 2<br>
%16 = udiv i64 %14, %15<br>
%17 = add i64 %16, 1<br>
%tobool7 = icmp eq i8 %1, 0<br>
br i1 %tobool7, label %for.inc16, label %if.then<br>
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The code generated by the Loop Vectorizer before the changes:<br>
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==== Loop Vectorizer from rL292487 ====<br>
for.body5: ; preds = %for.inc16.for.body5_crit_edge, %for.cond.preheader<br>
%indvar = phi i64 [ %indvar.next, %for.inc16.for.body5_crit_edge ], [ 0, %for.cond.preheader ]<br>
%1 = phi i8 [ %.pre, %for.inc16.for.body5_crit_edge ], [ 1, %for.cond.preheader ]<br>
%count.122 = phi i32 [ %count.2, %for.inc16.for.body5_crit_edge ], [ 0, %for.cond.preheader ]<br>
%i.119 = phi i64 [ %inc17, %for.inc16.for.body5_crit_edge ], [ 2, %for.cond.preheader ]<br>
%2 = add i64 %indvar, 2<br>
%3 = shl i64 %indvar, 1<br>
%4 = add i64 %3, 4<br>
%5 = add i64 %indvar, 2<br>
%6 = shl i64 %indvar, 1<br>
%7 = add i64 %6, 4<br>
%8 = add i64 %indvar, 2<br>
%9 = mul i64 %indvar, -2<br>
%10 = add i64 %9, 8188<br>
%11 = add i64 %indvar, 2<br>
%12 = udiv i64 %10, %11<br>
%13 = add i64 %12, 1<br>
%tobool7 = icmp eq i8 %1, 0<br>
br i1 %tobool7, label %for.inc16, label %if.then<br>
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I have not investigated yet why the behaviour of the Vectorizer is changed.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
Evgeny Astigeevich<br>
Senior Compiler Engineer<br>
Compilation Tools<br>
ARM<o:p></o:p></p>
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