<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 30, 2017, at 4:56 PM, Dehao Chen <<a href="mailto:dehao@google.com" class="">dehao@google.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Chandler Carruth<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:chandlerc@google.com" target="_blank" class="">chandlerc@google.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 3:51 PM Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><blockquote type="cite" class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">On Jan 30, 2017, at 10:49 AM, Dehao Chen via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-4486181801685859403m_3793832598303836648Apple-interchange-newline m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">Currently, loop fully unroller shares the same default threshold as loop dynamic unroller and partial unroller. This seems conservative because unlike dynamic/partial unrolling, fully unrolling will not affect LSD/ICache performance. In <a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D28368" class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://reviews.llvm.org/<wbr class="">D28368</a>, I proposed to double the threshold for loop fully unroller. This will change the codegen of several SPECCPU benchmarks:<div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><p class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'segoe ui web regular', 'segoe ui symbol', lato, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Code size:<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="margin-top: 0px;">447.dealII 0.50%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">453.povray 0.42%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">433.milc 0.20%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">445.gobmk 0.32%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">403.gcc 0.05%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">464.h264ref 3.62%</p><p class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'segoe ui web regular', 'segoe ui symbol', lato, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Compile Time:<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="margin-top: 0px;">447.dealII 0.22%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">453.povray -0.16%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">433.milc 0.09%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">445.gobmk -2.43%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">403.gcc 0.06%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">464.h264ref 3.21%</p><p class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'segoe ui web regular', 'segoe ui symbol', lato, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Performance (on intel sandybridge):<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="margin-top: 0px;">447.dealII +0.07%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">453.povray +1.79%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">433.milc +1.02%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">445.gobmk +0.56%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">403.gcc -0.16%<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">464.h264ref -0.41%</p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><blockquote type="cite" class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"></blockquote><br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">Can you clarify how to read these numbers? (I’m using +xx% to indicates a slowdown usually, it seems you’re doing the opposite?).</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As this is comparing spec scores instead of run time, +xx% here means speedup, -xx% means slowdown.</div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">So considering 464.h264ref, does it mean it is 3.6% slower to compile, gets 3.2% larger, and 0.4% slower?</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That is correct. The 0.4% slowdown is in the run-to-run noise range.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Ok, thanks for the clarifications.</div><div>What about the noise on the improvements? How reliable are you other numbers on this aspect?</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">Another question is about PGO integration: is it already hooked there? Should we have a more aggressive threshold in a hot function? (Assuming we’re willing to spend some binary size there but not on the cold path).</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class="">I would even wire the *unrolling* the other way: just suppress unrolling in cold paths to save binary size. rolled loops seem like a generally good thing in cold code unless they are having some larger impact (IE, the loop itself is more expensive than the unrolled form).</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Agree that we could suppress unrolling in cold path to save code size. But that's orthogonal with the propose here. This proposal focuses on O2 performance: shall we have different (higher) fully unroll threshold than dynamic/partial unroll.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I agree that this is (to some extent) orthogonal, and it makes sense to me to differentiate the threshold for full unroll and the dynamic/partial case.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>— </div><div>Mehdi</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="">We can have a separate patch to further boost threshold for hot loops and suppress unrolling for cold loops. One concern is that in order to check if a loop is hot/cold, we will need BFI for the loop pass. In the legacy loop pass manager, this will insert a function pass in the middle of a series of loop passes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dehao</div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">Thanks,</div><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">— </div></div></div><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">Mehdi</div></div></div><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"></div><br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><blockquote type="cite" class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><p class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'segoe ui web regular', 'segoe ui symbol', lato, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Looks like the change has overall positive performance impact with very small code size/compile time overhead. Now the question is shall we make this change default in O2, or shall we leave it in O3. We would like to have more input from the community to make the decision.</p><p class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'segoe ui web regular', 'segoe ui symbol', lato, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Thanks,</p><p class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'segoe ui', 'segoe ui web regular', 'segoe ui symbol', lato, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dehao</p></div></div>______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">LLVM Developers mailing list<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a><br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><a href="http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev" class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/<wbr class="">mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev</a><br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"></div></blockquote></div></div>______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg">LLVM Developers mailing list<br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a><br class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg"><a href="http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev" rel="noreferrer" class="m_-4486181801685859403gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/<wbr class="">mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev</a></blockquote></span></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>