On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 4:11 AM, Richard Biener
<richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Richard Biener
> <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:56 PM, Andrew Pinski <apin...@cavium.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>   This patch enables -fprefetch-loop-arrays for -mcpu=thunderxt88 and
>>> -mcpu=thunderxt88p1.  I filled out the tuning structures for both
>>> thunderx and thunderx2t99.  No other core current enables software
>>> prefetching so I set them to 0 which does not change the default
>>> parameters.
>>>
>>> OK?  Bootstrapped and tested on both ThunderX2 CN99xx and ThunderX
>>> CN88xx with no regressions.  I got a 2x improvement for 462.libquantum
>>> on CN88xx, overall a 10% improvement on SPEC INT on CN88xx at -Ofast.
>>> CN99xx's SPEC did not change.
>>
>> Heh, quite impressive for this kind of bit-rotten (and broken?) pass ;)
>
> And I wonder if most benefit comes from the unrolling the pass might do
> rather than from the prefetches...

Not in this case.  The main reason why I know is because the number of
L1 and L2 misses drops a lot.

Thanks,
Andrew

>
> Richard.
>
>> Richard.
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andrew Pinski
>>>
>>> ChangeLog:
>>> * config/aarch64/aarch64-protos.h (struct tune_params): Add
>>> prefetch_latency, simultaneous_prefetches, l1_cache_size, and
>>> l2_cache_size fields.
>>> (enum aarch64_autoprefetch_model): Add AUTOPREFETCHER_SW.
>>> * config/aarch64/aarch64.c (generic_tunings): Update to include
>>> prefetch_latency, simultaneous_prefetches, l1_cache_size, and
>>> l2_cache_size fields to 0.
>>> (cortexa35_tunings): Likewise.
>>> (cortexa53_tunings): Likewise.
>>> (cortexa57_tunings): Likewise.
>>> (cortexa72_tunings): Likewise.
>>> (cortexa73_tunings): Likewise.
>>> (exynosm1_tunings): Likewise.
>>> (thunderx_tunings): Fill out some of the new fields.
>>> (thunderxt88_tunings): New variable.
>>> (xgene1_tunings): Update to include prefetch_latency,
>>> simultaneous_prefetches, l1_cache_size, and l2_cache_size fields to 0.
>>> (qdf24xx_tunings): Likewise.
>>> (thunderx2t99_tunings): Fill out some of the new fields.
>>> (aarch64_override_options_internal): Consider AUTOPREFETCHER_SW like
>>> AUTOPREFETCHER_OFF.
>>> Set param values if the fields are non-zero.  Turn on
>>> prefetch-loop-arrays if AUTOPREFETCHER_SW and optimize level is at
>>> least 3 or profile feed usage is enabled.
>>> * config/aarch64/aarch64-cores.def (thunderxt88p1): Use thunderxt88 tuning.
>>> (thunderxt88): Likewise.

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