On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Maxim Kuvyrkov
<maxim.kuvyr...@linaro.org> wrote:
> This patch fixes heuristic in loop array prefetching to use 
> "round-to-nearest" instead of "floor", which is what _all_ other similar 
> heuristics in the pass are doing.

_all_ is a bit over-exaggregating...  In the context we are testing
this round value against a min_insn_to_mem_ratio so rounding
down makes sense to me.

What am I missing?

Richard.

> This subtle change allows a critical loop in 429.mcf to get prefetches 
> without making the pass too aggressive, which causes regressions on other 
> benchmarks.
>
> Bootstrapped and regtested on x86_64-linux-gnu and aarch64-linux-gnu.
>
> --
> Maxim Kuvyrkov
> www.linaro.org
>

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