yaxunl added inline comments.
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Comment at: cfe/trunk/include/clang/Basic/LangOptions.def:220
+/// \brief FP_CONTRACT mode (on/off/fast).
+ENUM_LANGOPT(DefaultFPContractMode, FPContractModeKind, 2, FPC_Off, "FP
contraction type")
LANGOPT(NoBitFieldTypeAlign , 1, 0, "bit-field type alignment")
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hfinkel wrote:
> yaxunl wrote:
> > anemet wrote:
> > > yaxunl wrote:
> > > > anemet wrote:
> > > > > yaxunl wrote:
> > > > > > This change seemed to cause some performance degradations in some
> > > > > > OpenCL applications.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This option used to be on by default. Now it is off by default.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > There are applications do separated compile/link/codegen stages. In
> > > > > > the codegen stage, clang is invoked with .bc as input, therefore
> > > > > > this option is off by default, whereas it was on by default before
> > > > > > this change.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is there any reason not to keep the original behavior?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks.
> > > > > > This change seemed to cause some performance degradations in some
> > > > > > OpenCL applications.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This option used to be on by default. Now it is off by default.
> > > > >
> > > > > It's always been off. It was set to fast for CUDA which should still
> > > > > be the case. See the changes further down on the patch.
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > There are applications do separated compile/link/codegen stages. In
> > > > > > the codegen stage, clang is invoked with .bc as input, therefore
> > > > > > this option is off by default, whereas it was on by default before
> > > > > > this change.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is there any reason not to keep the original behavior?
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry but I am not sure what changed, can you elaborate on what
> > > > > you're doing and how things used to work for you?
> > > > Before your change, -ffp-contract was a codegen option defined as
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ```
> > > > ENUM_CODEGENOPT(FPContractMode, FPContractModeKind, 2, FPC_On)
> > > > ```
> > > >
> > > > therefore the default value as on. After your change, it becomes off by
> > > > default.
> > > No. -ffp-contract=on was a FE option and -ffp-contract=fast was a backend
> > > option. I still don't understand your use-case. Can you include a small
> > > testcase how this used to work before?
> > -ffp-contract=on used to be a codegen option before this change. In
> > CodeGen/BackendUtil.cpp, before this change:
> >
> > ```
> > switch (CodeGenOpts.getFPContractMode()) {
> > switch (LangOpts.getDefaultFPContractMode()) {
> > case LangOptions::FPC_Off:
> > Options.AllowFPOpFusion = llvm::FPOpFusion::Strict;
> > break;
> > case LangOptions::FPC_On:
> > Options.AllowFPOpFusion = llvm::FPOpFusion::Standard;
> > break;
> > case LangOptions::FPC_Fast:
> > Options.AllowFPOpFusion = llvm::FPOpFusion::Fast;
> > break;
> > }
> > ```
> > By default, -fp-contract=on, which results in llvm::FPOpFusion::Standard in
> > the backend. This options allows backend to translate llvm.fmuladd to FMA
> > machine instructions.
> >
> > After this change, it becomes:
> >
> > ```
> > switch (LangOpts.getDefaultFPContractMode()) {
> > case LangOptions::FPC_Off:
> > Options.AllowFPOpFusion = llvm::FPOpFusion::Strict;
> > break;
> > case LangOptions::FPC_On:
> > Options.AllowFPOpFusion = llvm::FPOpFusion::Standard;
> > break;
> > case LangOptions::FPC_Fast:
> > Options.AllowFPOpFusion = llvm::FPOpFusion::Fast;
> > break;
> > }
> > ```
> > now by default -ffp-contract=off, which results in
> > llvm::FPOpFusion::Strict in the backend. This option disables backend
> > translating llvm.fmuladd to FMA machine instructions in certain situations.
> >
> > A simple lit test is as follows:
> >
> >
> > ```
> > ; RUN: %clang_cc1 -triple amdgcn -S -o - %s| FileCheck %s
> >
> > define amdgpu_kernel void @f(double addrspace(1)* nocapture %out, double
> > %a, double %b, double %c) local_unnamed_addr #0 {
> > entry:
> > ; CHECK: v_fma_f64
> > %0 = tail call double @llvm.fmuladd.f64(double %b, double %c, double %a)
> > store double %0, double addrspace(1)* %out, align 8, !tbaa !6
> > ret void
> > }
> >
> > declare double @llvm.fmuladd.f64(double, double, double) #1
> >
> > attributes #0 = { nounwind "correctly-rounded-divide-sqrt-fp-math"="false"
> > "disable-tail-calls"="false" "less-precise-fpmad"="false"
> > "no-frame-pointer-elim"="false" "no-infs-fp-math"="false"
> > "no-jump-tables"="false" "no-nans-fp-math"="false"
> > "no-signed-zeros-fp-math"="false" "no-trapping-math"="false"
> > "stack-protector-buffer-size"="8"
> > "target-features"="+fp64-fp16-denormals,-fp32-denormals"
> > "unsafe-fp-math"="false" "use-soft-float"="false" }
> > attributes #1 = { nounwind readnone }
> >
> > ```
> > The test passes before this change and fails after this change.
> I'm missing something here. We're calling for OpenCL:
>
> Opts.setDefaultFPContractMode(LangOptions::FPC_On);
>
> which seems like it should change the result returned by
> getDefaultFPContractMode(). Why does it not?
>
The input to this test is LLVM IR, so
`Opts.setDefaultFPContractMode(LangOptions::FPC_On)` is not executed.
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