On 11/20/2015 05:53 AM, James Greenhalgh wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 04:04:41PM -0600, Evandro Menezes wrote:
On 11/05/2015 02:51 PM, Evandro Menezes wrote:
2015-11-05 Evandro Menezes <e.mene...@samsung.com>
gcc/
* config/aarch64/aarch64.c (aarch64_override_options_internal):
Increase loop peeling limit.
This patch increases the limit for the number of peeled insns.
With this change, I noticed no major regression in either
Geekbench v3 or SPEC CPU2000 while some benchmarks, typically FP
ones, improved significantly.
I tested this tuning on Exynos M1 and on A57. ThunderX seems to
benefit from this tuning too. However, I'd appreciate comments
>from other stakeholders.
Ping.
I'd like to leave this for a call from the port maintainers. I can see why
this leads to more opportunities for vectorization, but I'm concerned about
the wider impact on code size. Certainly I wouldn't expect this to be our
default at -O2 and below.
My gut feeling is that this doesn't really belong in the back-end (there are
presumably good reasons why the default for this parameter across GCC has
fluctuated from 400 to 100 to 200 over recent years), but as I say, I'd
like Marcus or Richard to make the call as to whether or not we take this
patch.
Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but loop peeling is enabled only with
loop unrolling (and with PGO). If so, then extra code size is not a
concern, for this heuristic is only active when unrolling loops, when
code size is already of secondary importance.
Thank you,
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Evandro Menezes
