[llvm-dev] Enabling Loop Distribution Pass as default in the pipeline of new pass manager

Jingu Kang via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Jun 22 10:10:52 PDT 2021


@nikic<mailto:nikic at php.net> If you need more information for loop distribute pass, please let me know.

Thanks
JinGu Kang

From: Michael Kruse <llvmdev at meinersbur.de>
Sent: 21 June 2021 19:12
To: Jingu Kang <Jingu.Kang at arm.com>
Cc: Sjoerd Meijer <Sjoerd.Meijer at arm.com>; Michael Kruse <llvmdev at meinersbur.de>; Kyrylo Tkachov <Kyrylo.Tkachov at arm.com>; llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org; nikic at php.net
Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] Enabling Loop Distribution Pass as default in the pipeline of new pass manager

[adding nikc to CC]

@nikc Would you consider this amount of regression acceptable?



Am Mo., 21. Juni 2021 um 12:54 Uhr schrieb Jingu Kang <Jingu.Kang at arm.com<mailto:Jingu.Kang at arm.com>>:
The compile time data is as below. There could be a bit noise but it looks there is no big compile time regression.

From llvm-test-suite

Metric: compile_time

Program                                        results_base results_loop_dist diff
 test-suite...arks/VersaBench/dbms/dbms.test     0.94         0.95             1.6%
test-suite...s/MallocBench/cfrac/cfrac.test     0.89         0.90             1.5%
test-suite...ks/Prolangs-C/gnugo/gnugo.test     0.72         0.73             1.4%
test-suite...yApps-C++/PENNANT/PENNANT.test     8.65         8.75             1.2%
test-suite...marks/Ptrdist/yacr2/yacr2.test     0.84         0.85             1.1%
test-suite.../Builtins/Int128/Builtins.test     0.86         0.87             1.0%
test-suite...s/ASC_Sequoia/AMGmk/AMGmk.test     0.69         0.70             1.0%
test-suite...decode/alacconvert-decode.test     1.16         1.17             0.9%
test-suite...encode/alacconvert-encode.test     1.16         1.17             0.9%
test-suite...peg2/mpeg2dec/mpeg2decode.test     1.71         1.72             0.9%
test-suite.../Applications/spiff/spiff.test     0.88         0.89             0.9%
test-suite...terpolation/Interpolation.test     0.96         0.97             0.9%
test-suite...chmarks/MallocBench/gs/gs.test     4.58         4.62             0.9%
test-suite...-C++/stepanov_abstraction.test     0.69         0.70             0.8%
test-suite...marks/7zip/7zip-benchmark.test    52.35        52.74             0.7%
Geomean difference                                                            nan%
       results_base  results_loop_dist        diff
count  117.000000    118.000000         117.000000
mean   4.636126      4.616575           0.002171
std    7.725991      7.737663           0.006310
min    0.607300      0.602200          -0.041930
25%    1.345700      1.313650          -0.001577
50%    1.887000      1.888800           0.002463
75%    4.340800      4.343275           0.005754
max    52.351200     52.736000          0.015861

From SPEC2017
benchmarks
baseline
enable-loop-distribute
diff (seconds)
500.perlbench_r
00:01:06
00:01:04
-2
502.gcc_r
00:05:24
00:05:25
1
505.mcf_r
00:00:02
00:00:02
0
520.omnetpp_r
00:00:58
00:00:58
0
523.xalancbmk_r
00:02:30
00:02:30
0
525.x264_r
00:00:32
00:00:31
-1
531.deepsjeng_r
00:00:04
00:00:04
0
541.leela_r
00:00:06
00:00:06
0
557.xz_r
00:00:05
00:00:05
0
999.specrand_ir
00:00:01
00:00:00
1

From SPEC2006 (number is seconds)
benchmarks
baseline
enable-loop-distribute
diff (seconds)
400.perlbench
00:00:29
00:00:29
0
401.bzip2
00:00:04
00:00:03
-1
403.gcc
00:01:28
00:01:26
-2
429.mcf
00:00:01
00:00:01
0
445.gobmk
00:00:24
00:00:24
0
456.hmmer
00:00:06
00:00:06
0
458.sjeng
00:00:03
00:00:03
0
462.libquantum
00:00:03
00:00:02
-1
464.h264ref
00:00:29
00:00:29
0
471.omnetpp
00:00:23
00:00:24
1
473.astar
00:00:02
00:00:02
0
483.xalancbmk
00:02:07
00:02:06
-1
999.specrand
00:00:01
00:00:01
0

Thanks
JinGu Kang

From: llvm-dev <llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org>> On Behalf Of Sjoerd Meijer via llvm-dev
Sent: 21 June 2021 14:36
To: Jingu Kang <Jingu.Kang at arm.com<mailto:Jingu.Kang at arm.com>>; Michael Kruse <llvmdev at meinersbur.de<mailto:llvmdev at meinersbur.de>>; Kyrylo Tkachov <Kyrylo.Tkachov at arm.com<mailto:Kyrylo.Tkachov at arm.com>>
Cc: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] Enabling Loop Distribution Pass as default in the pipeline of new pass manager

> Based on this data, I think we could say the pass is usually beneficial without causing major regression.

I think we need to look at compile-times too before we can draw that conclusion, i.e. we need to justify it's worth spending extra compile-time for optimising a few cases. Hopefully loop distribution is a cheap pass to run (also when it is running but not triggering), but that's something that needs to be checked I think.
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From: Jingu Kang <Jingu.Kang at arm.com<mailto:Jingu.Kang at arm.com>>
Sent: 21 June 2021 14:27
To: Michael Kruse <llvmdev at meinersbur.de<mailto:llvmdev at meinersbur.de>>; Kyrylo Tkachov <Kyrylo.Tkachov at arm.com<mailto:Kyrylo.Tkachov at arm.com>>; Sjoerd Meijer <Sjoerd.Meijer at arm.com<mailto:Sjoerd.Meijer at arm.com>>
Cc: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>>
Subject: RE: [llvm-dev] Enabling Loop Distribution Pass as default in the pipeline of new pass manager

For considering the LoopDistribute pass as a canonicalization with the profitability heuristic of LoopFuse pass, it looks the LoopFuse pass does not also have proper profitability function.

If possible, I would like to enable the LoopDistribute pass based on the performance data.

As you can see on the previous email, the Geomean difference from llvm-test-suite is -0.0%. From spec benchmarks, we can see 43% performance improvement on 456.hmmer of SPEC2006. Based on this data, I think we could say the pass is usually beneficial without causing major regression.

How do you think about it?

Thanks
JinGu Kang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jingu Kang
> Sent: 18 June 2021 13:13
> To: Michael Kruse <llvmdev at meinersbur.de<mailto:llvmdev at meinersbur.de>>; Kyrylo Tkachov
> <Kyrylo.Tkachov at arm.com<mailto:Kyrylo.Tkachov at arm.com>>; Sjoerd Meijer <Sjoerd.Meijer at arm.com<mailto:Sjoerd.Meijer at arm.com>>
> Cc: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> Subject: RE: [llvm-dev] Enabling Loop Distribution Pass as default in the pipeline
> of new pass manager
>
> I appreciate your replies. I have seen below performance data.
>
> For AArch64, the performance data from llvm-test-suite is as below.
>
> Metric: exec_time
>
> Program                                        results_base results_loop_dist diff
>  test-suite...ications/JM/lencod/lencod.test     3.95         4.29             8.8%
>  test-suite...emCmp<5, GreaterThanZero, Mid>   1456.09      1574.29            8.1%
>  test-suite...st:BM_BAND_LIN_EQ_LAMBDA/44217    22.83        24.50             7.3%
>  test-suite....test:BM_BAND_LIN_EQ_RAW/44217    23.00        24.17             5.1%
>  test-suite...st:BM_INT_PREDICT_LAMBDA/44217   589.54       616.70             4.6%
>  test-suite...t:BENCHMARK_asin_novec_double_   330.25       342.17             3.6%
>  test-suite...ow-dbl/GlobalDataFlow-dbl.test     2.58         2.67             3.3%
>  test-suite...da.test:BM_PIC_2D_LAMBDA/44217   781.30       806.36             3.2%
>  test-suite...est:BM_ENERGY_CALC_LAMBDA/5001    63.02        64.93             3.0%
>  test-suite...gebra/kernels/syr2k/syr2k.test     6.53         6.73             3.0%
>  test-suite...t/StatementReordering-flt.test     2.33         2.40             2.8%
>  test-suite...sCRaw.test:BM_PIC_2D_RAW/44217   789.90       810.05             2.6%
>  test-suite...s/gramschmidt/gramschmidt.test     1.44         1.48             2.5%
>  test-suite...Raw.test:BM_HYDRO_1D_RAW/44217    38.42        39.37             2.5%
>  test-suite....test:BM_INT_PREDICT_RAW/44217   597.73       612.34             2.4%
>  Geomean difference                                                           -0.0%
>         results_base  results_loop_dist        diff
> count  584.000000     584.000000         584.000000
> mean   2761.681991    2759.451499       -0.000020
> std    30145.555650   30124.858004       0.011093
> min    0.608782       0.608729          -0.116286
> 25%    3.125425       3.106625          -0.000461
> 50%    130.212207     130.582658         0.000004
> 75%    602.708659     612.931769         0.000438
> max    511340.880000  511059.980000      0.087630
>
> For AArch64, the performance data from SPEC benchmark is as below.
>
> SPEC2006
> Benchmark             Improvement(%)
> 400.perlbench         -1.786911228
> 401.bzip2             -3.174199894
> 403.gcc               0.717990522
> 429.mcf               2.053027806
> 445.gobmk             0.775388165
> 456.hmmer             43.39308377
> 458.sjeng             0.133933093
> 462.libquantum                4.647923489
> 464.h264ref           -0.059568786
> 471.omnetpp           1.352515266
> 473.astar             0.362752409
> 483.xalancbmk         0.746580249
>
> SPEC2017
> Benchmark             Improvement(%)
> 500.perlbench_r               0.415424516
> 502.gcc_r             -0.112915812
> 505.mcf_r             0.238633706
> 520.omnetpp_r         0.114830748
> 523.xalancbmk_r               0.460107636
> 525.x264_r            -0.401915964
> 531.deepsjeng_r               0.010064227
> 541.leela_r           0.394797504
> 557.xz_r              0.111781366
>
> Thanks
> JinGu Kang
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Kruse <llvmdev at meinersbur.de<mailto:llvmdev at meinersbur.de>>
> > Sent: 17 June 2021 19:13
> > To: Jingu Kang <Jingu.Kang at arm.com<mailto:Jingu.Kang at arm.com>>
> > Cc: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> > Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] Enabling Loop Distribution Pass as default in
> > the pipeline of new pass manager
> >
> > The LoopDistribute pass doesn't do anything unless it sees
> > llvm.loop.distribute.enable (`#pragma clang loop distribute(enable)`)
> > because it does not have a profitability heuristic. It cannot say
> > whether loop distribution is good for performance or not. What makes
> > it improve hmmer is that the distributed loops can be vectoried.
> > However, LoopDistribute is located before the vectorizer and cannot
> > say in advance whether a distributed loop will be vectorized or not.
> > If not, then it potentially only increased loop overhead.
> >
> > To make -enable-loop-distribute on by default would mean that we could
> > consider loop distribution to be usually beneficial without causing
> > major regressions. We need a lot more data to support that conclusion.
> >
> > Alternatively, we could consider loop-distribution a canonicalization.
> > A later LoopFuse would do the profitability heuristic to re-fuse loops
> > again if loop distribution did not gain anything.
> >
> > Michael
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