[llvm-dev] Interprocedural DSE for -ftrivial-auto-var-init

Vitaly Buka via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon May 13 19:32:19 PDT 2019


https://reviews.llvm.org/D61879

*From: *Vitaly Buka <vitalybuka at google.com>
*Date: *Mon, May 13, 2019 at 10:23 AM
*To: *JF Bastien
*Cc: *Amara Emerson, llvm-dev, Peter Collingbourne

I have dirty prof-of-concept patch. I am going to rewrite pieces of it
> during the May starting now.
> Today it's a new pass which does cross-block DSE, module DSE, and global
> DSE.
> So far the module DSE is the most useful and probably easy integrate to
> existing DSE.
>
> *From: *JF Bastien <jfbastien at apple.com>
> *Date: *Mon, May 13, 2019 at 9:55 AM
> *To: *Vitaly Buka
> *Cc: *Amara Emerson, llvm-dev, Peter Collingbourne
>
>
>>
>> On May 10, 2019, at 8:59 PM, Vitaly Buka via llvm-dev <
>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>>  Sorry for delay, I was busy with other stuff.
>>  CTMark results.
>>
>>  dse is the current DSE.
>>  dsem is my experimental module level DSE.
>>  dsem runs after dse, so it's additionally deleted stores.
>>
>> -O3
>>  dse - Number of stores deleted                                    3033
>>  dsem - Number of deleted writes                                  3148
>>
>> -O3 -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern
>>  dse - Number of stores deleted                                    5618
>>  dsem - Number of deleted writes                                3840
>>
>> -O3 -flto
>>  dse - Number of stores deleted                                    3985
>>  dsem - Number of deleted writes                                  3838
>>
>> -O3 -flto -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern
>>  dse - Number of stores deleted                                    6461
>>  dsem - Number of deleted writes                                4215
>>
>> -Os
>>   dse - Number of stores deleted                                    1443
>>   dsem - Number of deleted writes                                  1517
>>
>> -Os -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern
>>   dse - Number of stores deleted                                    3951
>>   dsem - Number of deleted writes                                2259
>>
>> -Oz
>>   dse - Number of stores deleted                                    1072
>>   dsem - Number of deleted writes                                   574
>>
>> -Oz -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern
>>   dse - Number of stores deleted                                    3420
>>   dsem - Number of deleted writes                                1637
>>
>>
>> This looks great! Do you have a patch ready to go?
>>
>>
>> *From: *Amara Emerson <aemerson at apple.com>
>> *Date: *Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 12:10 PM
>> *To: *Vitaly Buka
>> *Cc: *Alexander Potapenko, llvm-dev, Peter Collingbourne
>>
>> Can you post numbers for how many stores get eliminated from CTMark?
>>>
>>> On Apr 16, 2019, at 11:45 AM, Vitaly Buka <vitalybuka at google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I tried -Os and effect of new approach significantly increases.
>>> I run regular DSE and immediately myDSE. With -Os myDSE removes more
>>> than 50% of DSE number.
>>> Which is expected as -Os inlines less and regular DSE can't remove over
>>> function call.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 7:11 AM Alexander Potapenko <glider at google.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 11:02 PM Amara Emerson via llvm-dev
>>>> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > > On Apr 15, 2019, at 1:51 PM, Vitaly Buka via llvm-dev <
>>>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Hi JF,
>>>> > >
>>>> > >    I've heard that you are interested DSE improvements and maybe we
>>>> need to be in sync.
>>>> > >    So far I experimented with following DSE improvements:
>>>> > >
>>>> > > * Cross-block DSE, it eliminates additional 7% stores comparing to
>>>> existing DSE. But it's not visible on benchmarks.
>>>> > I take it you couldn’t see any runtime impact? If there’s code size
>>>> improvements that could also be useful, CTMark in the llvm test suite is a
>>>> useful subset of benchmarks to check this on (as a baseline use -Os to
>>>> compare code size).
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > Amara
>>>> > >
>>>> > > * Cross-block + Interprocedural analysis to annotate each function
>>>> argument with:
>>>> > >   - can read before write
>>>> > >   - will always write
>>>> > > This annotations gets me 20% stores deleted additional to the
>>>> current DSE.
>>>> I believe we can only benefit from removing extra stores.
>>>> Hot functions in existing benchmarks are probably optimized good
>>>> enough already, but speeding up the long tail is also important.
>>>> Also, at least the repro in
>>>> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40527 has been extracted from a
>>>> real kernel benchmark (hackbench), where this extra store costed us
>>>> 0.45%
>>>>
>>>> > > This is on LLVM codebase with -ftrivial-auto-var-init=patter.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > As-is it's less than I expected, so I would like to find good
>>>> benchmark to decide if we should work to make production code from my
>>>> experiment.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > So now I am also planing to try to extend that to whole program
>>>> analysis.
>>>> > > I will cleanup my code and upload this during this weak, if anyone
>>>> wants to try.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Vitaly.
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