Switch spill weights from a basic loop depth estimation to BlockFrequencyInfo.

The main advantages here are way better heuristics, taking into account not
just loop depth but also __builtin_expect and other static heuristics and will
eventually learn how to use profile info. Most of the work in this patch is
pushing the MachineBlockFrequencyInfo analysis into the right places.

This is good for a 5% speedup on zlib's deflate (x86_64), there were some very
unfortunate spilling decisions in its hottest loop in longest_match(). Other
benchmarks I tried were mostly neutral.

This changes register allocation in subtle ways, update the tests for it.
2012-02-20-MachineCPBug.ll was deleted as it's very fragile and the instruction
it looked for was gone already (but the FileCheck pattern picked up unrelated
stuff).

llvm-svn: 184105

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/LiveIntervalAnalysis.cpp b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/LiveIntervalAnalysis.cpp
index 1ca2d46..18eac4c 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/LiveIntervalAnalysis.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/LiveIntervalAnalysis.cpp
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include "llvm/CodeGen/Passes.h"
 #include "llvm/CodeGen/VirtRegMap.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/Value.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/BlockFrequency.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/CommandLine.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/Debug.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/ErrorHandling.h"
@@ -605,21 +606,9 @@ LiveIntervals::hasPHIKill(const LiveInterval &LI, const VNInfo *VNI) const {
 }
 
 float
-LiveIntervals::getSpillWeight(bool isDef, bool isUse, unsigned loopDepth) {
-  // Limit the loop depth ridiculousness.
-  if (loopDepth > 200)
-    loopDepth = 200;
-
-  // The loop depth is used to roughly estimate the number of times the
-  // instruction is executed. Something like 10^d is simple, but will quickly
-  // overflow a float. This expression behaves like 10^d for small d, but is
-  // more tempered for large d. At d=200 we get 6.7e33 which leaves a bit of
-  // headroom before overflow.
-  // By the way, powf() might be unavailable here. For consistency,
-  // We may take pow(double,double).
-  float lc = std::pow(1 + (100.0 / (loopDepth + 10)), (double)loopDepth);
-
-  return (isDef + isUse) * lc;
+LiveIntervals::getSpillWeight(bool isDef, bool isUse, BlockFrequency freq) {
+  const float Scale = 1.0f / BlockFrequency::getEntryFrequency();
+  return (isDef + isUse) * (freq.getFrequency() * Scale);
 }
 
 LiveRange LiveIntervals::addLiveRangeToEndOfBlock(unsigned reg,