[llvm-dev] Benchmark GlobalsModRef in non-LTO pass pipeline

[James Molloy via llvm-dev]

Hi,

To amend what I said earlier, after a lot more investigation it turns out
the problem is that a bunch of optimization passes don't preserve
AliasAnalysis. If I add AU.setPreserved<AliasAnalysis> to a bunch of them,
passes such as LICM end up seeing GMR in its alias analysis chain. That's
when I start to see improvements.

James

On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 at 10:06 James Molloy <james at jamesmolloy.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Chandler,
>
> Sorry it took so long for me to get to this. I'm very keen to get GMR
> enabled in the non-LTO pipeline. I see nontrivial perf improvements in a
> bunch of workloads I care about with it enabled, but with a patch applied
> to run GMR again after the LoopPasses but before the FunctionPasses.
>
> I've found this is critical - LICM needs GMR available, and the
> passmanager kills it by the time the early LICM is run.
>
> I'd be really keen to get this enabled by default, with that extra run
> added. I assume the need for this extra run will evaporate with the new
> pass manager?
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 at 03:45 Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings folks!
>>
>> I would like to enable globalsmodref-aa in the non-LTO pass pipeline so
>> that it gets tested more and there are fewer differences between the two.
>> For all of my benchmarks, this is performance neutral, but I'd appreciate
>> others benchmarking this combination to see if they see any benefits or
>> regressions.
>>
>> You can demo this mode easily: -mllvm -enable-non-lto-gmr
>>
>> Please let me know!
>> -Chandler
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