[llvm-commits] [llvm] r108735 - in /llvm/trunk: include/llvm/Target/TargetLowering.h lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/TargetLowering.cpp

[Eric Christopher]

On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Jakob Stoklund Olesen wrote:

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> On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Evan Cheng wrote:
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>> On Jul 19, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Jakob Stoklund Olesen wrote:
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>>> Can you use some kind of scaling so a DPR counts as 0.5 QPR?
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>> No, I don't like that. I was hoping to avoid having targets provide findRepresentativeClass(). But I think it cannot be avoided.
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> I don't think overriding findRepresentativeClass() solves the problem. There is no 'correct' representative register class.
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> Whenever you allocate a QPR, you block two DPRs.
> Whenever you allocate a DPR, you block one (half) QPR.
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> I think you need to model that asymmetry somehow.
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As a first pass for scheduling wouldn't the second one be a bit overkill?  i.e. is there anything wrong with considering it as a full QPR?  If so, just round up?

-eric