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From: Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds@codesourcery.com>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
	Julian Brown <julian@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>, <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [gomp4] Preserve NVPTX "reconvergence" points
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55883304.7060409@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5588273C.60109@codesourcery.com>

On 06/22/15 11:18, Bernd Schmidt wrote:

> You can have a hint that it is desirable, but not a hint that it is correct
> (because passes in between may invalidate that). The OpenACC directives
> guarantee to the compiler that the program can be transformed into a parallel
> form. If we lose them early we must then rely on our analysis which may not be
> strong enough to prove that the loop can be parallelized. If we make these
> transformations early enough, while we still have the OpenACC directives, we can
> guarantee that we do exactly what the programmer specified.

How does this differ from openmp's needs to preserve parallelism on a parallel 
loop?  Is it more than the reconvergence issue?

nathan

-- 
Nathan Sidwell

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-22 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-28 14:20 Julian Brown
2015-05-28 14:59 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-05-28 15:14   ` Thomas Schwinge
2015-05-28 15:28     ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-06-19 10:44       ` Bernd Schmidt
2015-06-19 12:32         ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-06-19 13:07           ` Bernd Schmidt
2015-06-19 14:10             ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-06-22 14:04               ` Bernd Schmidt
2015-06-22 14:25                 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-06-24 13:37               ` Bernd Schmidt
2015-06-24 14:08                 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-06-22 14:00           ` Julian Brown
2015-06-22 14:36             ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-06-22 15:18               ` Julian Brown
2015-06-22 15:33               ` Bernd Schmidt
2015-06-22 16:13                 ` Nathan Sidwell [this message]
2015-06-22 16:27                   ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-06-22 16:35                     ` Nathan Sidwell
2015-06-22 17:54               ` Julian Brown
2015-06-22 18:48                 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-05-28 15:02 ` Richard Biener
2015-06-03 11:47   ` Julian Brown

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