[LLVMdev] Order of optimization: modulo scheduling & register allocation

[Jakob Stoklund Olesen]

On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:45 PM, ryan baird <ryanrbaird at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was reading about the order of optimizations in the code generation stage here: http://llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#the-high-level-design-of-the-code-generator
> 
> This is the part that's interesting to me:
> 
> 3. SSA-based Machine Code Optimizations — This optional stage consists of a series of machine-code optimizations that operate on the SSA-form produced by the instruction selector. Optimizations like modulo-scheduling or peephole optimization work here.
> 4. Register Allocation — The target code is transformed from an infinite virtual register file in SSA form to the concrete register file used by the target. This phase introduces spill code and eliminates all virtual register references from the program.
> 
> If modulo scheduling happens before more code is introduced, how do we know that we still have an optimal schedule?  Is there another scheduling stage during later optimization?

There is a post-RA scheduling pass. It is only used when compiling for in-order CPUs. Out-of-order CPUs usually don't care.

/jakob

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