1. LiveIntervals now implement a 4 slot per instruction model. Load,
Use, Def and a Store slot. This is required in order to correctly
represent caller saved register clobbering on function calls,
register reuse in the same instruction (def resues last use) and
also spill code added later by the allocator. The previous
representation (2 slots per instruction) was insufficient and as a
result was causing subtle bugs.
2. Fixes in spill code generation. This was the major cause of
failures in the test suite.
3. Linear scan now has core support for folding memory operands. This
is untested and not enabled (the live interval update function does
not attempt to fold loads/stores in instructions).
4. Lots of improvements in the debugging output of both live intervals
and linear scan. Give it a try... it is beautiful :-)
In summary the above fixes all the issues with the recent reserved
register elimination changes and get the allocator very close to the
next big step: folding memory operands.
llvm-svn: 11654
that need them. This is very useful on CISCy targets like the X86 because it
reduces the total spill pressure, and makes better use of it's (large)
instruction set. Though the X86 backend doesn't know how to rewrite many
instructions yet, this already makes a substantial difference on 176.gcc for
example:
Before:
Time:
8.0099 ( 31.2%) 0.0100 ( 12.5%) 8.0199 ( 31.2%) 7.7186 ( 30.0%) Local Register Allocator
Code quality:
734559 asm-printer - Number of machine instrs printed
111395 ra-local - Number of registers reloaded
79902 ra-local - Number of registers spilled
231554 x86-peephole - Number of peephole optimization performed
After:
Time:
7.8700 ( 30.6%) 0.0099 ( 19.9%) 7.8800 ( 30.6%) 7.7892 ( 30.2%) Local Register Allocator
Code quality:
733083 asm-printer - Number of machine instrs printed
2379 ra-local - Number of reloads fused into instructions
109046 ra-local - Number of registers reloaded
79881 ra-local - Number of registers spilled
230658 x86-peephole - Number of peephole optimization performed
So by fusing 2300 instructions, we reduced the static number of instructions
by 1500, and reduces the number of peepholes (and thus the work) by about 900.
This also clearly reduces the number of reload/spill instructions that are
emitted.
llvm-svn: 11542
