From 005e72b9ddb6b2d9d954b7a48c3d3c28972fff4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luis Machado Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 14:12:54 +0000 Subject: 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 gcc/ * config/aarch64/aarch64-protos.h (cpu_prefetch_tune) : 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 --- gcc/params.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'gcc/params.h') diff --git a/gcc/params.h b/gcc/params.h index 96012db..8aa960a 100644 --- a/gcc/params.h +++ b/gcc/params.h @@ -196,6 +196,8 @@ extern void init_param_values (int *params); PARAM_VALUE (PARAM_L1_CACHE_LINE_SIZE) #define L2_CACHE_SIZE \ PARAM_VALUE (PARAM_L2_CACHE_SIZE) +#define PREFETCH_DYNAMIC_STRIDES \ + PARAM_VALUE (PARAM_PREFETCH_DYNAMIC_STRIDES) #define PREFETCH_MINIMUM_STRIDE \ PARAM_VALUE (PARAM_PREFETCH_MINIMUM_STRIDE) #define USE_CANONICAL_TYPES \ -- cgit v1.1