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| author | Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org> | 2018-05-07 14:12:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Luis Machado <luisgpm@gcc.gnu.org> | 2018-05-07 14:12:54 +0000 |
| commit | 005e72b9ddb6b2d9d954b7a48c3d3c28972fff4d (patch) | |
| tree | aab4e836bba4385064c122da97ae201b12f14fcf /gcc/params.def | |
| parent | 57e2d1175cf972b0a352be46903d87633304ce4e (diff) | |
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Introduce prefetch-dynamic-strides option.
The following patch adds an option to control software prefetching of memory
references with non-constant/unknown strides.
Currently we prefetch these references if the pass thinks there is benefit to
doing so. But, since this is all based on heuristics, it's not always the case
that we end up with better performance.
For Falkor there is also the problem of conflicts with the hardware prefetcher,
so we need to be more conservative in terms of what we issue software prefetch
hints for.
This also aligns GCC with what LLVM does for Falkor.
Similarly to the previous patch, the defaults guarantee no change in behavior
for other targets and architectures.
2018-05-07 Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
gcc/
* config/aarch64/aarch64-protos.h (cpu_prefetch_tune)
<prefetch_dynamic_strides>: New const bool field.
* config/aarch64/aarch64.c (generic_prefetch_tune): Update to include
prefetch_dynamic_strides.
(exynosm1_prefetch_tune): Likewise.
(thunderxt88_prefetch_tune): Likewise.
(thunderx_prefetch_tune): Likewise.
(thunderx2t99_prefetch_tune): Likewise.
(qdf24xx_prefetch_tune): Likewise. Set prefetch_dynamic_strides to false.
(aarch64_override_options_internal): Update to set
PARAM_PREFETCH_DYNAMIC_STRIDES.
* doc/invoke.texi (prefetch-dynamic-strides): Document new option.
* params.def (PARAM_PREFETCH_DYNAMIC_STRIDES): New.
* params.h (PARAM_PREFETCH_DYNAMIC_STRIDES): Define.
* tree-ssa-loop-prefetch.c (should_issue_prefetch_p): Account for
prefetch-dynamic-strides setting.
From-SVN: r259996
Diffstat (limited to 'gcc/params.def')
| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/params.def | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/params.def b/gcc/params.def index 2166deb..7408843 100644 --- a/gcc/params.def +++ b/gcc/params.def @@ -790,6 +790,15 @@ DEFPARAM (PARAM_L2_CACHE_SIZE, "The size of L2 cache.", 512, 0, 0) +/* Whether software prefetch hints should be issued for non-constant + strides. */ + +DEFPARAM (PARAM_PREFETCH_DYNAMIC_STRIDES, + "prefetch-dynamic-strides", + "Whether software prefetch hints should be issued for non-constant " + "strides.", + 1, 0, 1) + /* The minimum constant stride beyond which we should use prefetch hints for. */ |