[LLVMdev] Disable loop unroll pass

[Brendon Cahoon]

I just wanted to add to Krzysztof's response.   I'm not sure if you're
referring to the case when a compile-time trip count loop is completely
unrolled or for a loop with a run-time trip count, which would be partially
unrolled.  For Hexagon, if we partially unroll a loop, we'd also like to use
our hardware loop instructions.  That is, unrolling and hardware loops are
complementary.

Thanks,
-- Brendon

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-----Original Message-----
From: llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On
Behalf Of Krzysztof Parzyszek
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 10:29 AM
To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Disable loop unroll pass

On 11/21/2012 10:31 AM, Ivan Llopard wrote:
>
> Does Hexagon provides the same loop support? How have you addressed this?

Yes, Hexagon has hardware support for loops: you set up the loop start
address, number of iterations and indicate where the loop ends, and the
hardware would execute the code repeatedly until the count goes down to
zero.

I'm not aware of any specific changes that had been made to the
bitcode-level loop unroller in connection with the hardware loop support.  I
just glanced over the unrolling code and I didn't see anything that would be
aimed at helping the hardware-based loop generation.

We have a pass in our backend that converts "normal" loops into
hardware-based loops, and it can handle loops that have been unrolled (but
not completely).  If a loop has been completely unrolled, it is a
straight-line code and it will not be "re-rolled".


-Krzysztof

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