Hi,
We disable gathers for zen4. It seems that gather has improved a bit compared
to zen4 and Zen5 optimization manual suggests "Avoid GATHER instructions when
the indices are known ahead of time. Vector loads followed by shuffles result
in a higher load bandwidth." however the situation seems to be more
complicated.
gather is 5-10% loss on parest benchmark as well as 30% loss on sparse dot
products in TSVC. Curiously enough breaking these out into microbenchmark
reversed the situation and it turns out that the performance depends on
how indices are distributed. gather is loss if indices are sequential,
neutral if they are random and win for some strides (4, 8).
This seems to be similar to earlier zens, so I think (especially for
backporting znver5 support) that it makes sense to be conistent and disable
gather unless we work out a good heuristics on when to use it. Since we
typically do not know the indices in advance, I don't see how that can be done.
I opened PR116582 with some examples of wins and loses
Bootstrapped/regtested x86_64-linux, committed.
gcc/ChangeLog:
* config/i386/x86-tune.def (X86_TUNE_USE_GATHER_2PARTS): Disable for
ZNVER5.
(X86_TUNE_USE_SCATTER_2PARTS): Disable for ZNVER5.
(X86_TUNE_USE_GATHER_4PARTS): Disable for ZNVER5.
(X86_TUNE_USE_SCATTER_4PARTS): Disable for ZNVER5.
(X86_TUNE_USE_GATHER_8PARTS): Disable for ZNVER5.
(X86_TUNE_USE_SCATTER_8PARTS): Disable for ZNVER5.
diff --git a/gcc/config/i386/x86-tune.def b/gcc/config/i386/x86-tune.def
index da1a3d6a3c6..ed26136faee 100644
--- a/gcc/config/i386/x86-tune.def
+++ b/gcc/config/i386/x86-tune.def
@@ -476,35 +476,35 @@ DEF_TUNE (X86_TUNE_AVOID_4BYTE_PREFIXES,
"avoid_4byte_prefixes",
/* X86_TUNE_USE_GATHER_2PARTS: Use gather instructions for vectors with 2
elements. */
DEF_TUNE (X86_TUNE_USE_GATHER_2PARTS, "use_gather_2parts",
- ~(m_ZNVER1 | m_ZNVER2 | m_ZNVER3 | m_ZNVER4 | m_CORE_HYBRID
+ ~(m_ZNVER | m_CORE_HYBRID
| m_YONGFENG | m_SHIJIDADAO | m_CORE_ATOM | m_GENERIC | m_GDS))
/* X86_TUNE_USE_SCATTER_2PARTS: Use scater instructions for vectors with 2
elements. */
DEF_TUNE (X86_TUNE_USE_SCATTER_2PARTS, "use_scatter_2parts",
- ~(m_ZNVER4))
+ ~(m_ZNVER4 | m_ZNVER5))
/* X86_TUNE_USE_GATHER_4PARTS: Use gather instructions for vectors with 4
elements. */
DEF_TUNE (X86_TUNE_USE_GATHER_4PARTS, "use_gather_4parts",
- ~(m_ZNVER1 | m_ZNVER2 | m_ZNVER3 | m_ZNVER4 | m_CORE_HYBRID
+ ~(m_ZNVER | m_CORE_HYBRID
| m_YONGFENG | m_SHIJIDADAO | m_CORE_ATOM | m_GENERIC | m_GDS))
/* X86_TUNE_USE_SCATTER_4PARTS: Use scater instructions for vectors with 4
elements. */
DEF_TUNE (X86_TUNE_USE_SCATTER_4PARTS, "use_scatter_4parts",
- ~(m_ZNVER4))
+ ~(m_ZNVER4 | m_ZNVER5))
/* X86_TUNE_USE_GATHER: Use gather instructions for vectors with 8 or more
elements. */
DEF_TUNE (X86_TUNE_USE_GATHER_8PARTS, "use_gather_8parts",
- ~(m_ZNVER1 | m_ZNVER2 | m_ZNVER4 | m_CORE_HYBRID | m_CORE_ATOM
+ ~(m_ZNVER | m_CORE_HYBRID | m_CORE_ATOM
| m_YONGFENG | m_SHIJIDADAO | m_GENERIC | m_GDS))
/* X86_TUNE_USE_SCATTER: Use scater instructions for vectors with 8 or more
elements. */
DEF_TUNE (X86_TUNE_USE_SCATTER_8PARTS, "use_scatter_8parts",
- ~(m_ZNVER4))
+ ~(m_ZNVER4 | m_ZNVER5))
/* X86_TUNE_AVOID_128FMA_CHAINS: Avoid creating loops with tight 128bit or
smaller FMA chain. */
