Hello,

The attached patch is my latest attempt to model doloop for arm.
I followed Chung-Lin Tang suggestion and used subs+jump similar to your
patch.
On crotex-A8 I see gain of 29% on autocor benchmark (telecom suite) with
SMS using the following flags: -fmodulo-sched-allow-regmoves
-funsafe-loop-optimizations -fmodulo-sched   -fno-auto-inc-dec
-fdump-rtl-sms -mthumb  -mcpu=cortex-a8 -O3. (compare to using only
-mthumb  -mcpu=cortex-a8 -O3)

I have not fully tested the patch and it's not in the proper format of
submission yet.

Thanks,
Revital

(See attached file: patch_arm_doloop.txt)



From:	Roman Zhuykov <zhroma@ispras.ru>
To:	gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Cc:	dm@ispras.ru
Date:	30/12/2010 04:04 PM
Subject:	[ARM] Implementing doloop pattern
Sent by:	gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org



Hello!

The main idea of the work described below was to estimate speedup we can
gain from SMS on ARM.  SMS depends on doloop_end pattern and there is no
appropriate instruction on ARM.  We decided to create a "fake"
doloop_end pattern on ARM using a pair of "subs" and "bne" assembler
instructions.  In implementation we used ideas from machine description
files of other architectures, e. g. spu, which expands doloop_end
pattern only when SMS is enabled.  The patch is attached.

This patch allows to use any possible register for the doloop pattern.
It was tested on trunk snapshot from 30 Aug 2010.  It works fine on
several small examples, but gives an ICE on sqlite-amalgamation-3.6.1
source:
sqlite3.c: In function 'sqlite3WhereBegin':
sqlite3.c:76683:1: internal compiler error: in patch_jump_insn, at
cfgrtl.c:1020

ICE happens in ira pass, when cleanup_cfg is called at the end or ira.

The "bad" instruction looks like
(jump_insn 3601 628 4065 76 (parallel [
             (set (pc)
                 (if_then_else (ne (mem/c:SI (plus:SI (reg/f:SI 13 sp)
                                 (const_int 36 [0x24])) [105 %sfp+-916
S4 A32])
                         (const_int 1 [0x1]))
                     (label_ref 3600)
                     (pc)))
             (set (mem/c:SI (plus:SI (reg/f:SI 13 sp)
                         (const_int 36 [0x24])) [105 %sfp+-916 S4 A32])
                 (plus:SI (mem/c:SI (plus:SI (reg/f:SI 13 sp)
                             (const_int 36 [0x24])) [105 %sfp+-916 S4 A32])
                     (const_int -1 [0xffffffffffffffff])))
         ]) sqlite3.c:75235 328 {doloop_end_internal}
      (expr_list:REG_BR_PROB (const_int 9100 [0x238c])
         (nil))
  -> 3600)

So, the problem seems to be with ira.  Memory is used instead of a
register to store doloop counter.  We tried to fix this by explicitly
specifying hard register (r5) for doloop pattern.  The fixed version
seems to work, but this doesn't look like a proper fix.  On trunk
snapshot from 17 Dec 2010 the ICE described above have disappeared, but
probably it's just a coincidence, and it will shop up anyway on some
other test case.

The r5-fix shows the following results (compare "-O2 -fno-auto-inc-dec
-fmodulo-sched" vs "-O2 -fno-auto-inc-dec").
Aburto benchmarks: heapsort and matmult - 3% speedup. nsieve - 7% slowdown.
Other aburto tests, sqlite tests and libevas rasterization library
(expedite testsuite) show around zero results.

A motivating example shows about 23% speedup:

char scal (int n, char *a, char *b)
{
   int i;
   char s = 0;
   for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
     s += a[i] * b[i];
   return s;
}

We have analyzed SMS results, and can conclude that if SMS has
successfully built a schedule for the loop we usually gain a speedup,
and when SMS fails, we often have some slowdown, which have appeared
because of do-loop conversion.

The questions are:
How to properly fix the ICE described?
Do you think this approach (after the fixes) can make its way into trunk?

Happy holidays!
--
Roman Zhuykov

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