[clang] [llvm] [AMDGPU] Implement Waitcnt Expansion for Profiling (PR #169345)

Jay Foad via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Nov 24 08:49:43 PST 2025


jayfoad wrote:

> > Why would you restrict this to "non-zero counter values"?
> 
> When a waitcnt already has a zero counter value expanding it would just generate another waitcnt(0), which provides no additional profiling granularity. If you believe there's a use case for expanding waitcnt(0), I'd be happy to discuss it.

The requirement is that instead of emitting e.g. `s_waitcnt vmcnt(2)` you should emit e.g.:
```
s_waitcnt vmcnt(4)
s_waitcnt vmcnt(3)
s_waitcnt vmcnt(2)
```
The starting value "4" here is assuming that SIInsertWaitcnts already knows that the upper bound on this counter's value is 5, so 4 is the highest value you can wait for that will have any effect.

Similarly instead of `s_waitcnt vmcnt(0)` you should emit:
```
s_waitcnt vmcnt(4)
s_waitcnt vmcnt(3)
s_waitcnt vmcnt(2)
s_waitcnt vmcnt(1)
s_waitcnt vmcnt(0)
```

> > Why does this need a new subtarget feature?
> 
> On this, I am still not fully sure what would be the best approach to handle. I there any suggestion from you?

I don't know why you added a subtarget feature. I would suggest not adding it -- unless there is some reason for it that I am missing.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/169345


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