[llvm-dev] Is subclass of ScheduleDAGMILive a pre-RA scheduler?

[Matthias Braun via llvm-dev]

> On Apr 25, 2017, at 4:37 AM, 陳韋任 <chenwj.cs97g at g2.nctu.edu.tw> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Matthias.
> 
> From the class hierarchy, ScheduleDAGMILive is also a ScheduleDAGMI. I
> am wondering if there will be any problem if
> we use subclass of ScheduleDAGMILive as post-RA scheduler? The best
> case is ScheduleDAGMILive just waste time
> on book-keeping register pressure, but I am not sure if we can still
> do those book-keeping after RA.
Not sure why you want to use the variant with extra features that don't help you post-RA, but at least it shouldn't break.

> 
> Talk about post-RA scheduler, I see there is another class
> PostRASchedulerList whose DEBUG_TYPE is post-RA-sched.
> I am wondering if that means we have two post-RA schedulers in LLVM
> right now? Any particular difference between those
> two classes, PostMachineScheduler and PostRASchedulerList?
PostRASchedulerList is considered deprecated. If you are starting fresh use the PostMachineScheduler.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> chenwj
> 
> 2017-04-25 10:46 GMT+08:00 Matthias Braun <mbraun at apple.com>:
>> 
>>> On Apr 22, 2017, at 5:12 AM, 陳韋任 via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> The description of ScheduleDAGMILive [1] says:
>>> 
>>>   ScheduleDAGMILive is an implementation of ScheduleDAGInstrs that
>>> schedules machine instructions
>>>   while updating LiveIntervals and tracking regpressure.
>>> 
>>> Does the live interval and register pressure part of ScheduleDAGMILive
>>> mean the subclass of ScheduleDAGMILive
>>> is a pre-RA scheduler? I assume the post-RA scheduler no need to take
>>> care of  live interval and register pressure,
>>> since RA is done already.
>> 
>> Yes ScheduleDAGMILive is used by the MachineScheduler which runs before register allocation. By default the MachineScheduler is put between register coalescing and the greedy register allocator.
>> 
>> (There is also the PostMachineScheduler which as the name suggests runs after register allocation and that one only uses ScheduleDAGMI and does not track register pressure).
>> 
>> - Matthias
> 
> 
> 
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