All users of MCCodeEmitter::encodeInstruction use a raw_svector_ostream
to encode the instruction into a SmallVector. The raw_ostream however
incurs some overhead for the actual encoding.
This change allows an MCCodeEmitter to directly emit an instruction into
a SmallVector without using a raw_ostream and therefore allow for
performance improvments in encoding. A default path that uses existing
raw_ostream implementations is provided.
Reviewed By: MaskRay, Amir
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D145791
This is based on the assumption that most simulated instructions don't define
more than one or two registers. This is true for example on x86, where
most instruction definitions don't declare more than one register write.
The default code region size has been increased from 8 to 16. This is based on
the assumption that, for small microbenchmarks, the typical code snippet size is
often less than 16 instructions.
mca::Instruction now uses bitfields to pack flags.
No functional change intended.
Summary:
Before this patch, `relaxInstruction` takes three arguments, the first
argument refers to the instruction before relaxation and the third
argument is the output instruction after relaxation. There are two quite
strange things:
1) The first argument's type is `const MCInst &`, the third
argument's type is `MCInst &`, but they may be aliased to the same
variable
2) The backends of ARM, AMDGPU, RISC-V, Hexagon assume that the third
argument is a fresh uninitialized `MCInst` even if `relaxInstruction`
may be called like `relaxInstruction(Relaxed, STI, Relaxed)` in a
loop.
In this patch, we drop the thrid argument, and let `relaxInstruction`
directly modify the given instruction. Also, this patch fixes the bug https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45580, which is introduced by D77851, and
breaks the assumption of ARM, AMDGPU, RISC-V, Hexagon.
Reviewers: Razer6, MaskRay, jyknight, asb, luismarques, enderby, rtaylor, colinl, bcain
Reviewed By: Razer6, MaskRay, bcain
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Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78364
Flag -show-encoding enables the printing of instruction encodings as part of the
the instruction info view.
Example (with flags -mtriple=x86_64-- -mcpu=btver2):
Instruction Info:
[1]: #uOps
[2]: Latency
[3]: RThroughput
[4]: MayLoad
[5]: MayStore
[6]: HasSideEffects (U)
[7]: Encoding Size
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Encodings: Instructions:
1 2 1.00 4 c5 f0 59 d0 vmulps %xmm0, %xmm1, %xmm2
1 4 1.00 4 c5 eb 7c da vhaddps %xmm2, %xmm2, %xmm3
1 4 1.00 4 c5 e3 7c e3 vhaddps %xmm3, %xmm3, %xmm4
In this example, column Encoding Size is the size in bytes of the instruction
encoding. Column Encodings reports the actual instruction encodings as byte
sequences in hex (objdump style).
The computation of encodings is done by a utility class named mca::CodeEmitter.
In future, I plan to expose the CodeEmitter to the instruction builder, so that
information about instruction encoding sizes can be used by the simulator. That
would be a first step towards simulating the throughput from the decoders in the
hardware frontend.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65948
llvm-svn: 368432
