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From: "avi at scylladb dot com" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>
To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: [Bug target/103554] -mavx generates worse code on scalar code
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 09:00:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-103554-4-VoLV8d3284@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-103554-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103554

--- Comment #3 from Avi Kivity <avi at scylladb dot com> ---
> _Note_ that likely the suboptimal solution presented here is faster because
> it avoids STLF penalties from the calls stack setup which very likely uses
> scalar or differently aligned vector moves.

Interesting point. Agner says (Icelake):

> A read that is bigger than the write, or a read that covers both written and unwritten bytes,
> fails to forward. The write-to-read latency is 19-20 clock cycles.

However, the same code is generated when `in` is a reference, in which case it
may not be in the store queue at all, so we're paying two extra instructions
for nothing. movhps is also 2 uops, so we're paying 3 uops to load 2 elements.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-06  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-04 15:37 [Bug target/103554] New: " avi at scylladb dot com
2021-12-04 22:08 ` [Bug target/103554] " pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org
2021-12-06  8:36 ` rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org
2021-12-06  9:00 ` avi at scylladb dot com [this message]
2021-12-06 11:00 ` rguenther at suse dot de
2021-12-06 11:23 ` avi at scylladb dot com
2021-12-06 11:52 ` rguenther at suse dot de
2021-12-06 11:59 ` avi at scylladb dot com
2021-12-07  2:26 ` crazylht at gmail dot com
2021-12-07  8:36 ` rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org
2021-12-07  9:51 ` crazylht at gmail dot com
2021-12-07 10:28 ` rguenther at suse dot de
2021-12-09  3:07 ` crazylht at gmail dot com

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