Refresh of the generic scheduling model to use A510 instead of A55.
Main benefits are to the little core, and introducing SVE scheduling information.
Changes tested on various OoO cores, no performance degradation is seen.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D156799
We would like to start pushing -mcpu=generic towards enabling the set of
features that improves performance for some CPUs, without hurting any
others. A blend of the performance options hopefully beneficial to all
CPUs. The largest part of that is enabling in-order scheduling using the
Cortex-A55 schedule model. This is similar to the Arm backend change
from eecb353d0e25ba which made -mcpu=generic perform in-order scheduling
using the cortex-a8 schedule model.
The idea is that in-order cpu's require the most help in instruction
scheduling, whereas out-of-order cpus can for the most part out-of-order
schedule around different codegen. Our benchmarking suggests that
hypothesis holds. When running on an in-order core this improved
performance by 3.8% geomean on a set of DSP workloads, 2% geomean on
some other embedded benchmark and between 1% and 1.8% on a set of
singlecore and multicore workloads, all running on a Cortex-A55 cluster.
On an out-of-order cpu the results are a lot more noisy but show flat
performance or an improvement. On the set of DSP and embedded
benchmarks, run on a Cortex-A78 there was a very noisy 1% speed
improvement. Using the most detailed results I could find, SPEC2006 runs
on a Neoverse N1 show a small increase in instruction count (+0.127%),
but a decrease in cycle counts (-0.155%, on average). The instruction
count is very low noise, the cycle count is more noisy with a 0.15%
decrease not being significant. SPEC2k17 shows a small decrease (-0.2%)
in instruction count leading to a -0.296% decrease in cycle count. These
results are within noise margins but tend to show a small improvement in
general.
When specifying an Apple target, clang will set "-target-cpu apple-a7"
on the command line, so should not be affected by this change when
running from clang. This also doesn't enable more runtime unrolling like
-mcpu=cortex-a55 does, only changing the schedule used.
A lot of existing tests have updated. This is a summary of the important
differences:
- Most changes are the same instructions in a different order.
- Sometimes this leads to very minor inefficiencies, such as requiring
an extra mov to move variables into r0/v0 for the return value of a test
function.
- misched-fusion.ll was no longer fusing the pairs of instructions it
should, as per D110561. I've changed the schedule used in the test
for now.
- neon-mla-mls.ll now uses "mul; sub" as opposed to "neg; mla" due to
the different latencies. This seems fine to me.
- Some SVE tests do not always remove movprfx where they did before due
to different register allocation giving different destructive forms.
- The tests argument-blocks-array-of-struct.ll and arm64-windows-calls.ll
produce two LDR where they previously produced an LDP due to
store-pair-suppress kicking in.
- arm64-ldp.ll and arm64-neon-copy.ll are missing pre/postinc on LPD.
- Some tests such as arm64-neon-mul-div.ll and
ragreedy-local-interval-cost.ll have more, less or just different
spilling.
- In aarch64_generated_funcs.ll.generated.expected one part of the
function is no longer outlined. Interestingly if I switch this to use
any other scheduled even less is outlined.
Some of these are expected to happen, such as differences in outlining
or register spilling. There will be places where these result in worse
codegen, places where they are better, with the SPEC instruction counts
suggesting it is not a decrease overall, on average.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D110830
When inspecting the calling convention, for calling windows functions
from a non-windows function, inspect the calling convention of
the called function, not the caller.
Also remove an unnecessary parameter to AArch64CallLowering
OutgoingArgHandler.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100890
On Windows, float arguments are normally passed in float registers
in the calling convention for regular functions. For variable
argument functions, floats are passed in integer registers. This
already was done correctly since many years.
However, the surprising bit was that floats among the fixed arguments
also are supposed to be passed in integer registers, contrary to regular
functions. (This also seems to be the behaviour on ARM though, both
on Windows, but also on e.g. hardfloat linux.)
In the calling convention, don't promote shorter floats to f64, but
convert them to integers of the same length. (Floats passed as part of
the actual variable arguments are promoted to double already on the
C/Clang level; the LLVM vararg calling convention doesn't do any
extra promotion of f32 to f64 - this matches how it works on X86 too.)
Technically, this is an ABI break compared to older LLVM versions,
but it fixes compatibility with the official platform ABI. (In practice,
floats among the fixed arguments in variable argument functions is
a pretty rare construct.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100365
