[llvm-commits] [PATCH] Make '-mtune=x86_64' assume fast unaligned memory accesses.

[Chandler Carruth]

Not all chips targeted by x86_64 have this feature, but a dramatically
increasing number do. Specifying a chip-specific tuning parameter will
continue to turn the feature on or off as appropriate for that
particular chip, but the generic flag should try to achieve the best
performance on the most widely available hardware. Today, the number of
chips with fast UA access dwarfs those without in the x86-64 space.

Note that this also brings LLVM's code generation for this '-march' flag
more in line with that of modern GCCs.

http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D195

Files:
  lib/Target/X86/X86.td

Index: lib/Target/X86/X86.td
===================================================================
--- lib/Target/X86/X86.td
+++ lib/Target/X86/X86.td
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@
 def : Proc<"pentium-m",       [FeatureSSE2, FeatureSlowBTMem]>;
 def : Proc<"pentium4",        [FeatureSSE2]>;
 def : Proc<"pentium4m",       [FeatureSSE2, FeatureSlowBTMem]>;
-def : Proc<"x86-64",          [FeatureSSE2, Feature64Bit, FeatureSlowBTMem]>;
+def : Proc<"x86-64",          [FeatureSSE2, Feature64Bit, FeatureSlowBTMem,
+                               FeatureFastUAMem]>;
 def : Proc<"yonah",           [FeatureSSE3, FeatureSlowBTMem]>;
 def : Proc<"prescott",        [FeatureSSE3, FeatureSlowBTMem]>;
 def : Proc<"nocona",          [FeatureSSE3, FeatureCMPXCHG16B,
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