[LLVMdev] darwin llvm-gfortran Polyhedron 2005 results

Bob Wilson bob.wilson at apple.com
Thu Apr 8 10:35:41 PDT 2010


Dale?

My only involvement with this was adding the missing "LLVM LOCAL" markers....

On Apr 8, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 08:45:48AM -0700, Bob Wilson wrote:
>> [CCing Dale since this was his change, not mine]
>> 
>> The change in 81455 fixes a compiler crash.  It doesn't happen very often, but I can't imagine we would want to back that out.  Fixing it would be a more reasonable solution.  From a quick look at it, the problem is that gcc/config/darwin-c.c is registering va_opt for GC.  When you build for Fortran, darwin-c.o is not linked so the GC gets confused somehow.
> 
> Bob,
>    Duncan suggested moving va_opt into darwin.o and changing the declaration from static to
> extern in darwin-c.o. I have tried that here...
> 
> http://llvm.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=4652
> 
> in various forms. While the change seems to work for
> a simple make, it breaks parallel builds...
> 
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6778#c17
> 
> Do you have any suggestions for a change to the fortran build
> to solve this? We can't link in darwin-c.o of course, but would
> it make sense to have fortran declare it's own static copy of
> va_opt somewhere?
>              Jack
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 8, 2010, at 6:25 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:54:36PM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Apr 7, 2010, at 8:41 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Building the current release 2.7 branch on x86_64-apple-darwin10
>>>>> with r81455 reverted, I get the following Polyhedron 2005 benchmark
>>>>> results (with no test failures)...
>>>> 
>>>> Very nice!  A 14% speedup on a benchmark we don't tune for isn't bad.  I imagine that there are several easy wins you could get on it if you were interested in analyzing the performance.  I don't think that anyone has done *any* llvm-gfortran perf work.
>>>> 
>>>> -Chris
>>> 
>>> Chris,
>>>  How essential is r81455 to the llvm-gcc4.2-2.7 release? Can we regress it
>>> out for 2.7? I've tried all of the suggestions in...
>>> 
>>> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6778
>>> 
>>> from Duncan for moving va_opt into darwin.c as an extern. While this
>>> works at first glance, it destablizes the parallel make. Regressing r81455
>>> doesn't appear to cause any problems.
>>>                 Jack
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ================================================================================
>>>>> Date & Time     :  7 Apr 2010 22:24:16
>>>>> Test Name       : llvm_gfortran_lin_p4
>>>>> Compile Command : llvm-gfortran -ffast-math -funroll-loops -msse3 -O3 %n.f90 -o %n
>>>>> Benchmarks      : ac aermod air capacita channel doduc fatigue gas_dyn induct linpk mdbx nf protein rnflow test_fpu tfft
>>>>> Maximum Times   :     2000.0
>>>>> Target Error %  :      0.100
>>>>> Minimum Repeats :    10
>>>>> Maximum Repeats :   100
>>>>> 
>>>>> Benchmark   Compile  Executable   Ave Run  Number   Estim
>>>>>      Name    (secs)     (bytes)    (secs) Repeats   Err %
>>>>> ---------   -------  ----------   ------- -------  ------
>>>>>        ac      0.34       10000     12.85      10  0.0067
>>>>>    aermod     20.01       10000     15.42      10  0.0076
>>>>>       air      1.52       10000      7.50      12  0.0934
>>>>>  capacita      0.58       10000     45.67      10  0.0152
>>>>>   channel      0.41       10000      2.19      10  0.0365
>>>>>     doduc      2.29       10000     29.08      10  0.0140
>>>>>   fatigue      1.02       10000      8.83      10  0.0582
>>>>>   gas_dyn      0.77       10000     13.12      21  0.0909
>>>>>    induct      2.54       10000     24.22      10  0.0096
>>>>>     linpk      0.28       10000     15.67      10  0.0343
>>>>>      mdbx      0.79       10000     12.09      10  0.0070
>>>>>        nf      0.33       10000     30.10      12  0.0751
>>>>>   protein      1.10       10000     42.02      10  0.0100
>>>>>    rnflow      1.53       10000     32.00      10  0.0214
>>>>>  test_fpu      1.28       10000     11.73      10  0.0446
>>>>>      tfft      0.24       10000      2.16      13  0.0988
>>>>> 
>>>>> Geometric Mean Execution Time =      14.07 seconds
>>>>> 
>>>>> ================================================================================
>>>>> 
>>>>> This compares to the last time I ran these for the release 2.5 branch...
>>>>> 
>>>>> ================================================================================
>>>>> Date & Time     :  2 Feb 2009 23:57:03
>>>>> Test Name       : llvm_gfortran_lin_p4
>>>>> Compile Command : llvm-gfortran -ffast-math -funroll-loops -msse3 -O3 %n.f90 -o %n
>>>>> Benchmarks      : ac aermod air capacita channel doduc fatigue gas_dyn induct linpk mdbx nf protein rnflow test_fpu tfft
>>>>> Maximum Times   :     2000.0
>>>>> Target Error %  :      0.100
>>>>> Minimum Repeats :    10
>>>>> Maximum Repeats :   100
>>>>> 
>>>>> Benchmark   Compile  Executable   Ave Run  Number   Estim
>>>>>      Name    (secs)     (bytes)    (secs) Repeats   Err %
>>>>> ---------   -------  ----------   ------- -------  ------
>>>>>        ac      0.28       10000     15.01      10  0.0805
>>>>>    aermod     16.03       10000     15.83      10  0.0772
>>>>>       air      1.62       10000      8.21      10  0.0472
>>>>>  capacita      0.47       10000     51.23      10  0.0261
>>>>>   channel      0.23       10000      3.32      10  0.0106
>>>>>     doduc      1.64       10000     34.17      10  0.0060
>>>>>   fatigue      0.70       10000     12.74      10  0.0572
>>>>>   gas_dyn      0.55       10000     16.07      10  0.0771
>>>>>    induct      1.75       10000     26.54      10  0.0017
>>>>>     linpk      0.22       10000     15.42      10  0.0205
>>>>>      mdbx      0.63       10000     14.13      12  0.0162
>>>>>        nf      0.26       10000     29.01      10  0.0909
>>>>>   protein      0.70       10000     44.89      10  0.0133
>>>>>    rnflow      1.09       10000     39.58      10  0.0212
>>>>>  test_fpu      0.89       10000     14.02      10  0.0132
>>>>>      tfft      0.17       10000      2.20      12  0.0149
>>>>> 
>>>>> Geometric Mean Execution Time =      16.15 seconds
>>>>> 
>>>>> ================================================================================
>>>>> 
>>>>> In general, since the 2.5 release, the code performance is better
>>>>> but the compile time is somewhat regressed.
>>>>>                    Jack
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