[llvm-dev] reg coalescing improvements

[Jonas Paulsson via llvm-dev]

Hi,

I am seeing cases of poorly coalesced IV updates on SystemZ:

In the final IR, it is obvious that

        %R4D<def> = LA %R2D<kill>, 4, %noreg   // R4 = R2 + 4
         %R2D<def> = LGR %R4D<kill>             // R2 = R4

could be optimized to ->

         %R2D<def> = LA %R2D<kill>, 4, %noreg   // R2 = R2 + 4

The reason this wasn't coalesced, is because of overlapping during 
coalescing:

864B            %vreg11<def> = LA %vreg2, 4, %noreg
880B            %vreg16<def> = LLCMux %vreg2, 4, %noreg
928B            %vreg2<def>  = COPY %vreg11

It seems that if this had been rescheduled to

880B            %vreg16<def> = LLCMux %vreg2, 4, %noreg
864B            %vreg11<def> = LA %vreg2, 4, %noreg
928B            %vreg2<def>  = COPY %vreg11

, %vreg11 and %vreg2 could have been coalesced (%vreg11 is unused 
outside this block)

My question is how to best handle this.

* Seems to me probably best to handle this pre-ra if possible, even 
though cases like this may be handled later.
* Pre-RA mischeduler is run after the coalescer, so that's not going to 
work.

thanks for any help,

Jonas