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This is a complex change that resulted from a great deal of experimentation with several different benchmarks. The one which proved the most useful is included as a test case, but I don't know that it captures all of the relevant changes, as I didn't have specific regression tests for each, they were more the result of reasoning about what the old algorithm would possibly do wrong. I'm also failing at the moment to craft more targeted regression tests for these changes, if anyone has ideas, it would be welcome. The first big thing broken with the old algorithm is the idea that we can take a basic block which has a loop-exiting successor and a looping successor and use the looping successor as the layout top in order to get that particular block to be the bottom of the loop after layout. This happens to work in many cases, but not in all. The second big thing broken was that we didn't try to select the exit which fell into the nearest enclosing loop (to which we exit at all). As a consequence, even if the rotation worked perfectly, it would result in one of two bad layouts. Either the bottom of the loop would get fallthrough, skipping across a nearer enclosing loop and thereby making it discontiguous, or it would be forced to take an explicit jump over the nearest enclosing loop to earch its successor. The point of the rotation is to get fallthrough, so we need it to fallthrough to the nearest loop it can. The fix to the first issue is to actually layout the loop from the loop header, and then rotate the loop such that the correct exiting edge can be a fallthrough edge. This is actually much easier than I anticipated because we can handle all the hard parts of finding a viable rotation before we do the layout. We just store that, and then rotate after layout is finished. No inner loops get split across the post-rotation backedge because we check for them when selecting the rotation. That fix exposed a latent problem with our exitting block selection -- we should allow the backedge to point into the middle of some inner-loop chain as there is no real penalty to it, the whole point is that it *won't* be a fallthrough edge. This may have blocked the rotation at all in some cases, I have no idea and no test case as I've never seen it in practice, it was just noticed by inspection. Finally, all of these fixes, and studying the loops they produce, highlighted another problem: in rotating loops like this, we sometimes fail to align the destination of these backwards jumping edges. Fix this by actually walking the backwards edges rather than relying on loopinfo. This fixes regressions on heapsort if block placement is enabled as well as lots of other cases where the previous logic would introduce an abundance of unnecessary branches into the execution. llvm-svn: 154783 |
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