<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Adam Nemet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anemet@apple.com" target="_blank">anemet@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 18, 2017, at 3:30 PM, Dehao Chen via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-8954505038834062460Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I'm proposing to make vectorizer-maximize-<wbr>bandwidth on by default for loop vectorizer because it should generally help performance.</div><div><br></div><div>I've tested the performance impact on Intel sandybridge machine with speccpu benchmarks:</div><div><br></div><div><div> Benchmark Base:Reference (1) </div><div>------------------------------<wbr>-------------------------</div><div>spec/2006/fp/C++/444.namd 26.84 -0.31%</div><div>spec/2006/fp/C++/447.dealII 46.19 +0.89%</div><div>spec/2006/fp/C++/450.soplex 42.92 -0.44%</div><div>spec/2006/fp/C++/453.povray 38.57 -2.25%</div><div>spec/2006/fp/C/433.milc 24.54 -0.76%</div><div>spec/2006/fp/C/470.lbm 41.08 +0.26%</div><div>spec/2006/fp/C/482.sphinx3 47.58 -0.99%</div><div>spec/2006/int/C++/471.omnetpp 22.06 +1.87%</div><div>spec/2006/int/C++/473.astar 22.65 -0.12%</div><div>spec/2006/int/C++/483.<wbr>xalancbmk 33.69 +4.97%</div><div>spec/2006/int/C/400.perlbench 33.43 +1.70%</div><div>spec/2006/int/C/401.bzip2 23.02 -0.19%</div><div>spec/2006/int/C/403.gcc 32.57 -0.43%</div><div>spec/2006/int/C/429.mcf 40.35 +0.27%</div><div>spec/2006/int/C/445.gobmk 26.96 +0.06%</div><div>spec/2006/int/C/456.hmmer 24.4 +0.19%</div><div>spec/2006/int/C/458.sjeng 27.91 -0.08%</div><div>spec/2006/int/C/462.libquantum 57.47 -0.20%</div><div>spec/2006/int/C/464.h264ref 46.52 +1.35%</div><div><br></div><div>geometric mean +0.29%</div><div><br></div><div> Scores are benchmark specific.</div></div><div><br></div><div>We do have regression on 453.povray, but it's due to secondary effects as all hot functions are the same. I've also tested the code size impact, it does not change for tested speccpu benchmarks.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>Can you please describe the config for the runs (optimization level, PGO/no-PGO, etc).</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is O2 build without PGO.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><br></div><div>It would be good to provide analysis for the changes >1%. I.e. we need to make sure that the improvements are not noise either ;).</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Good point. I just examined all benchmarks with >1% "improvement". Turns out they are all noises: the hot functions (with >1% total cycles) are all identical. So the conclusion is: this change does not affect speccpu2006 performance.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Dehao</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I've prepared <a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D33341" rel="noreferrer" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/D33341</a> to do this.</div><div><br></div><div>I really appreciate if the community can help test the performance impact of this change on other architectures so that we can decide if this should go target-dependent.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I will run it on Cyclone/AArch64 next week.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Adam</div></font></span><span class=""><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Any comments/concerns?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Dehao</div></div>
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