Break false dependencies before partial register updates.

Two new TargetInstrInfo hooks lets the target tell ExecutionDepsFix
about instructions with partial register updates causing false unwanted
dependencies.

The ExecutionDepsFix pass will break the false dependencies if the
updated register was written in the previoius N instructions.

The small loop added to sse-domains.ll runs twice as fast with
dependency-breaking instructions inserted.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@144602 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 68 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/llvm/Target/TargetInstrInfo.h b/include/llvm/Target/TargetInstrInfo.h
index 07f614d61d..590fc1e8f7 100644
--- a/include/llvm/Target/TargetInstrInfo.h
+++ b/include/llvm/Target/TargetInstrInfo.h
@@ -718,6 +718,74 @@ public:
   ///
   virtual void setExecutionDomain(MachineInstr *MI, unsigned Domain) const {}
 
+
+  /// getPartialRegUpdateClearance - Returns the preferred minimum clearance
+  /// before an instruction with an unwanted partial register update.
+  ///
+  /// Some instructions only write part of a register, and implicitly need to
+  /// read the other parts of the register.  This may cause unwanted stalls
+  /// preventing otherwise unrelated instructions from executing in parallel in
+  /// an out-of-order CPU.
+  ///
+  /// For example, the x86 instruction cvtsi2ss writes its result to bits
+  /// [31:0] of the destination xmm register. Bits [127:32] are unaffected, so
+  /// the instruction needs to wait for the old value of the register to become
+  /// available:
+  ///
+  ///   addps %xmm1, %xmm0
+  ///   movaps %xmm0, (%rax)
+  ///   cvtsi2ss %rbx, %xmm0
+  ///
+  /// In the code above, the cvtsi2ss instruction needs to wait for the addps
+  /// instruction before it can issue, even though the high bits of %xmm0
+  /// probably aren't needed.
+  ///
+  /// This hook returns the preferred clearance before MI, measured in
+  /// instructions.  Other defs of MI's operand OpNum are avoided in the last N
+  /// instructions before MI.  It should only return a positive value for
+  /// unwanted dependencies.  If the old bits of the defined register have
+  /// useful values, or if MI is determined to otherwise read the dependency,
+  /// the hook should return 0.
+  ///
+  /// The unwanted dependency may be handled by:
+  ///
+  /// 1. Allocating the same register for an MI def and use.  That makes the
+  ///    unwanted dependency identical to a required dependency.
+  ///
+  /// 2. Allocating a register for the def that has no defs in the previous N
+  ///    instructions.
+  ///
+  /// 3. Calling breakPartialRegDependency() with the same arguments.  This
+  ///    allows the target to insert a dependency breaking instruction.
+  ///
+  virtual unsigned
+  getPartialRegUpdateClearance(const MachineInstr *MI, unsigned OpNum,
+                               const TargetRegisterInfo *TRI) const {
+    // The default implementation returns 0 for no partial register dependency.
+    return 0;
+  }
+
+  /// breakPartialRegDependency - Insert a dependency-breaking instruction
+  /// before MI to eliminate an unwanted dependency on OpNum.
+  ///
+  /// If it wasn't possible to avoid a def in the last N instructions before MI
+  /// (see getPartialRegUpdateClearance), this hook will be called to break the
+  /// unwanted dependency.
+  ///
+  /// On x86, an xorps instruction can be used as a dependency breaker:
+  ///
+  ///   addps %xmm1, %xmm0
+  ///   movaps %xmm0, (%rax)
+  ///   xorps %xmm0, %xmm0
+  ///   cvtsi2ss %rbx, %xmm0
+  ///
+  /// An <imp-kill> operand should be added to MI if an instruction was
+  /// inserted.  This ties the instructions together in the post-ra scheduler.
+  ///
+  virtual void
+  breakPartialRegDependency(MachineBasicBlock::iterator MI, unsigned OpNum,
+                            const TargetRegisterInfo *TRI) const {}
+
 private:
   int CallFrameSetupOpcode, CallFrameDestroyOpcode;
 };