[llvm-dev] [GSoC 2016] Parameters of a target architecture

[Michael Kruse via llvm-dev]

2016-06-02 13:57 GMT+02:00 Roman Gareev via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>:
> 1. Size of double-precision floating-point number.

By IEEE 754, its always 8 bytes.

Generally, use DataLayout::getTypeAllocSize/getTypeStoreSize to get a
type's size.


> 2. Number of double-precision floating-point numbers that can be hold
> by a vector register.

TargetTransformInfo::getRegisterBitWidth (divided by 8 if double)


> 3. Throughput of vector instructions per clock cycle.

TargetTransformInfo::getArithmeticInstrCost

See LoopVectorizationCostModel::getInstructionCost for how to use it.


> 4. Latency of instructions (i.e., the minimum number of cycles between
> the issuance of two dependent consecutive instructions).

I think latency and throughput cannot be queried separately. They are
combined as 'cost'.


> 5. Paramaters of cache levels (size of cache lines,  associativity
> degrees, sizes).

TargetTransformInfo::getCacheLineSize

That is, available for one level (probably L1 Data Cache) only. I
think the X86 backend doesn't even define it (returns 0)


For the information that is missing, I suggest to use command line
options to get the information directly from the user. In the long
term, we could add it TargetTransformInfo as well.


Michael