This change extends D27742 to allow a chain of triangles to
tail-duplicate and produce a lattice. The essential change is that if a
predecessor has the same successors as a layout predecessors, we ignore
that block when considering if we can tail-duplicate into unplaced
predecessors.
As an example consider the following CFG:
B D F H / \ / \ / \ / \ A---C---E---G---Ret
Where A,C,E,G are all small (Currently 2 instructions).
The CFG preserving layout is then A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,Ret.
The current code will copy C into B, E into D and G into F and yield the layout
A,C,B(C),E,D(E),F(G),G,H,ret
define void @straight_test(i32 %tag) { entry: br label %test1 test1: ; A %tagbit1 = and i32 %tag, 1 %tagbit1eq0 = icmp eq i32 %tagbit1, 0 br i1 %tagbit1eq0, label %test2, label %optional1 optional1: ; B call void @a() br label %test2 test2: ; C %tagbit2 = and i32 %tag, 2 %tagbit2eq0 = icmp eq i32 %tagbit2, 0 br i1 %tagbit2eq0, label %test3, label %optional2 optional2: ; D call void @b() br label %test3 test3: ; E %tagbit3 = and i32 %tag, 4 %tagbit3eq0 = icmp eq i32 %tagbit3, 0 br i1 %tagbit3eq0, label %test4, label %optional3 optional3: ; F call void @c() br label %test4 test4: ; G %tagbit4 = and i32 %tag, 8 %tagbit4eq0 = icmp eq i32 %tagbit4, 0 br i1 %tagbit4eq0, label %exit, label %optional4 optional4: ; H call void @d() br label %exit exit: ret void }
here is the layout after D27742:
straight_test: # @straight_test ; ... Prologue elided ; BB#0: # %entry ; A (merged with test1) ; ... More prologue elided mr 30, 3 andi. 3, 30, 1 bc 12, 1, .LBB0_2 ; BB#1: # %test2 ; C rlwinm. 3, 30, 0, 30, 30 beq 0, .LBB0_3 b .LBB0_4 .LBB0_2: # %optional1 ; B (copy of C) bl a nop rlwinm. 3, 30, 0, 30, 30 bne 0, .LBB0_4 .LBB0_3: # %test3 ; E rlwinm. 3, 30, 0, 29, 29 beq 0, .LBB0_5 b .LBB0_6 .LBB0_4: # %optional2 ; D (copy of E) bl b nop rlwinm. 3, 30, 0, 29, 29 bne 0, .LBB0_6 .LBB0_5: # %test4 ; G rlwinm. 3, 30, 0, 28, 28 beq 0, .LBB0_8 b .LBB0_7 .LBB0_6: # %optional3 ; F (copy of G) bl c nop rlwinm. 3, 30, 0, 28, 28 beq 0, .LBB0_8 .LBB0_7: # %optional4 ; H bl d nop .LBB0_8: # %exit ; Ret ld 30, 96(1) # 8-byte Folded Reload addi 1, 1, 112 ld 0, 16(1) mtlr 0 blr
This is where the more bold strategy of this patch comes in. We allow E
to be placed, even though its predecessor B (after copying C) is
unplaced, because it is lattice shaped after tail-duplication.
This then produces the layout A,C,E,G,B,D,F,H,Ret. This layout does have
back edges, which is a negative, but it has a bigger compensating
positive, which is that it handles the case where there are long strings
of skipped blocks much better than the original layout. Both layouts
handle runs of executed blocks equally well. Branch prediction also
improves if there is any correlation between subsequent optional blocks.
Here is the resulting concrete layout:
straight_test: # @straight_test ; BB#0: # %entry ; A (merged with test1) mr 30, 3 andi. 3, 30, 1 bc 12, 1, .LBB0_4 ; BB#1: # %test2 ; C rlwinm. 3, 30, 0, 30, 30 bne 0, .LBB0_5 .LBB0_2: # %test3 ; E rlwinm. 3, 30, 0, 29, 29 bne 0, .LBB0_6 .LBB0_3: # %test4 ; G rlwinm. 3, 30, 0, 28, 28 bne 0, .LBB0_7 b .LBB0_8 .LBB0_4: # %optional1 ; B (Copy of C) bl a nop rlwinm. 3, 30, 0, 30, 30 beq 0, .LBB0_2 .LBB0_5: # %optional2 ; D (Copy of E) bl b nop rlwinm. 3, 30, 0, 29, 29 beq 0, .LBB0_3 .LBB0_6: # %optional3 ; F (Copy of G) bl c nop rlwinm. 3, 30, 0, 28, 28 beq 0, .LBB0_8 .LBB0_7: # %optional4 ; H bl d nop .LBB0_8: # %exit
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