On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:46 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Evgeny Stupachenko <evstu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The patch is for x86 Silvermont.
>> It improves x86 Silvermont vector cost model.
>> It gives +20% on facerec spec on Silvermont.
>> It passes make check and bootstrap on x86.
>>
>> Is this patch ok for stage1?
>>
>> ChangeLog:
>>
>> 2014-03-05  Evgeny Stupachenko  <evstu...@gmail.com>
>>
>>     * config/i386/x86-tune.def (TARGET_SLOW_PSHUFB): Target for slow byte
>>     shuffle on some x86 architectures.
>>     * config/i386/i386.h (TARGET_SLOW_PSHUFB): Ditto.
>>     * config/i386/i386.c (processor_costs): Fixing vec_to_scalar_cost for
>>     Silvermont according latency table.
>>     (expand_vec_perm_even_odd_1): Avoid byte shuffles in architectures
>>     where they are slow (TARGET_SLOW_PSHUFB).
>>     (x86_add_stmt_cost): Fixing vector cost model for Silvermont.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Evgeny
>
> There are 3 separate changes in this patch:
>
> 1. Update slm_cost, which doesn't have a ChangeLog entry.
> 2. Add TARGET_SLOW_PSHUFB.
> 3. Update ix86_add_stmt_cost.
>
> I suggest you break it into 3 independent patches.

I think that slm_cost/intel_cost and TARGET_SLOW_PSHUFB changes can
still go into mainline at this stage since they are trivial tuning
changes that should not destabilize the compiler.

The  ix86_add_stmt_cost should wait for stage 1.

Uros.

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