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Commit bd5c6039 authored by Roman Gareev's avatar Roman Gareev
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Align newly created arrays to the first level cache line boundary

Aligning data to cache lines boundaries helps to avoid overheads related to
an access to it ([1]). This patch aligns newly created arrays and adds an
option to specify the first level cache line size. By default we use 64 bytes,
which is a typical cache-line size ([2]).

In case of Intel Core i7-3820 SandyBridge and the following options,

clang -O3 gemm.c -I utilities/ utilities/polybench.c -DPOLYBENCH_TIME
-march=native -mllvm -polly -mllvm -polly-pattern-matching-based-opts=true
-DPOLYBENCH_USE_SCALAR_LB -mllvm -polly-target-cache-level-associativity=8,8
-mllvm -polly-target-cache-level-sizes=32768,262144 -mllvm
-polly-target-latency-vector-fma=8

it helps to improve the performance from 11.303 GFlops/sec (39,247% of
theoretical peak) to 12.63 GFlops/sec (43,8542% of theoretical peak).

Refs.:

[1] - http://www.alexonlinux.com/aligned-vs-unaligned-memory-access
[2] - http://igoro.com/archive/gallery-of-processor-cache-effects/

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28020



Reviewed-by: default avatarTobias Grosser <tobias@grosser.es>
llvm-svn: 290253
parent 7116dc90
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