[PATCH] D118534: [X86] Introduce more common modern tunings into `generic`

[Sanjay Patel via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

spatel added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/lib/Target/X86/X86.td:1222
                  TuningMacroFusion,
+                 TuningFastScalarFSQRT,
+                 TuningFast15ByteNOP,
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Fast scalar SQRT controls whether we produce a single-precision sqrtss instruction or a reciprocal estimate sequence of about 9 instructions (when allowed with fast-math).

Based on Agner's timing docs and the flag description, this should be set for Zen1 (sqrtss has latency 9-10), but it's not as obviously good for Zen2/3 because those have sqrtss latency of 14. The flag is set for Intel CPUs since SandyBridge, so that's sqrtss latency between 10-14.

I think this is ok to set, but if the assumption is that we're tuning for any mainstream CPU of the last N years, then shouldn't we add this flag to the later AMD models too for less surprising output? There's a possible side benefit that we will produce more accurate results too.


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