Also avoid locals evicting locals just because they want a cheaper register.
Problem: MI Sched knows exactly how many registers we have and assumes
they can be colored. In cases where we have large blocks, usually from
unrolled loops, greedy coloring fails. This is a source of
"regressions" from the MI Scheduler on x86. I noticed this issue on
x86 where we have long chains of two-address defs in the same live
range. It's easy to see this in matrix multiplication benchmarks like
IRSmk and even the unit test misched-matmul.ll.
A fundamental difference between the LLVM register allocator and
conventional graph coloring is that in our model a live range can't
discover its neighbors, it can only verify its neighbors. That's why
we initially went for greedy coloring and added eviction to deal with
the hard cases. However, for singly defined and two-address live
ranges, we can optimally color without visiting neighbors simply by
processing the live ranges in instruction order.
Other beneficial side effects:
It is much easier to understand and debug regalloc for large blocks
when the live ranges are allocated in order. Yes, global allocation is
still very confusing, but it's nice to be able to comprehend what
happened locally.
Heuristics could be added to bias register assignment based on
instruction locality (think late register pairing, banks...).
Intuituvely this will make some test cases that are on the threshold
of register pressure more stable.
llvm-svn: 187139
X86. Basically, this is a reapplication of r158087 with a few fixes.
Specifically, (1) the stack pointer is restored from the base pointer before
popping callee-saved registers and (2) in obscure cases (see comments in patch)
we must cache the value of the original stack adjustment in the prologue and
apply it in the epilogue.
rdar://11496434
llvm-svn: 160002
This patch causes problems when both dynamic stack realignment and
dynamic allocas combine in the same function. With this patch, we no
longer build the epilog correctly, and silently restore registers from
the wrong position in the stack.
Thanks to Matt for tracking this down, and getting at least an initial
test case to Chad. I'm going to try to check a variation of that test
case in so we can easily track the fixes required.
llvm-svn: 158654
