(4.58s vs 3.2s on an oldish Mac Tower). 

  The corresponding src is excerpted bellow. The lopp accounts for about 90% of execution time.
  --------------------
    cat -n test-suite/MultiSource/Benchmarks/Olden/em3d/make_graph.c
     90 
     91         for (k=0; k<j; k++)
     92           if (other_node == cur_node->to_nodes[k]) break;

  The defective layout is sketched bellow, where the two branches need to swap.
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
      L:
         ...
      if (cond) goto out-of-loop
      goto L

  While this code sequence is defective, I don't understand why it incurs 1/3 of 
execution time. CPU-event-profiling indicates the poor laoyout dose not increase
in br-misprediction; it dosen't increase stall cycle at all, and it dosen't 
prevent the CPU detect the loop (i.e. Loop-Stream-Detector seems to be working fine
as well)... 

   The root cause of the problem is that the layout pass calls AnalyzeBranch() 
with basic-block which is not updated to reflect its current layout.

rdar://13966341

llvm-svn: 183174

llvm-svn: 179355

When debugging performance regressions we often ask ourselves if the regression
that we see is due to poor isel/sched/ra or due to some micro-architetural
problem.  When comparing two code sequences one good way to rule out front-end
bottlenecks (and other the issues) is to force code alignment. This pass adds
a flag that forces the alignment of all of the basic blocks in the program.

llvm-svn: 179353

llvm-svn: 178346

This fixes some of the cycles between libCodeGen and libSelectionDAG. It's still
a complete mess but as long as the edges consist of virtual call it doesn't
cause breakage. BasicTTI did static calls and thus broke some build
configurations.

llvm-svn: 172246

directly.

This is in preparation for removing the use of the 'Attribute' class as a
collection of attributes. That will shift to the AttributeSet class instead.

llvm-svn: 171253

Rename the 'Attributes' class to 'Attribute'. It's going to represent a single attribute in the future.

llvm-svn: 170502

Sooooo many of these had incorrect or strange main module includes.
I have manually inspected all of these, and fixed the main module
include to be the nearest plausible thing I could find. If you own or
care about any of these source files, I encourage you to take some time
and check that these edits were sensible. I can't have broken anything
(I strictly added headers, and reordered them, never removed), but they
may not be the headers you'd really like to identify as containing the
API being implemented.

Many forward declarations and missing includes were added to a header
files to allow them to parse cleanly when included first. The main
module rule does in fact have its merits. =]

llvm-svn: 169131

We use the enums to query whether an Attributes object has that attribute. The
opaque layer is responsible for knowing where that specific attribute is stored.

llvm-svn: 165488

The hasFnAttr method has been replaced by querying the Attributes explicitly. No
intended functionality change.

llvm-svn: 164725

llvm-svn: 163882

Previously, MBP essentially aligned every branch target it could. This
bloats code quite a bit, especially non-looping code which has no real
reason to prefer aligned branch targets so heavily.

As Andy said in review, it's still a bit odd to do this without a real
cost model, but this at least has much more plausible heuristics.

Fixes PR13265.

llvm-svn: 161409

We branch to the successor with higher edge weight first.
Convert from
     je    LBB4_8  --> to outer loop
     jmp   LBB4_14 --> to inner loop
to
     jne   LBB4_14
     jmp   LBB4_8

PR12750
rdar: 11393714

llvm-svn: 161018

very first (and worst) placement algorithm. These should now more
accurately reflect the reality of the pass.

llvm-svn: 159185

llvm-svn: 157885

rotation. When there is a loop backedge which is an unconditional
branch, we will end up with a branch somewhere no matter what. Try
placing this backedge in a fallthrough position above the loop header as
that will definitely remove at least one branch from the loop iteration,
where whole loop rotation may not.

I haven't seen any benchmarks where this is important but loop-blocks.ll
tests for it, and so this will be covered when I flip the default.

llvm-svn: 154812

laid out in a form with a fallthrough into the header and a fallthrough
out of the bottom. In that case, leave the loop alone because any
rotation will introduce unnecessary branches. If either side looks like
it will require an explicit branch, then the rotation won't add any, do
it to ensure the branch occurs outside of the loop (if possible) and
maximize the benefit of the fallthrough in the bottom.

llvm-svn: 154806

This is a complex change that resulted from a great deal of
experimentation with several different benchmarks. The one which proved
the most useful is included as a test case, but I don't know that it
captures all of the relevant changes, as I didn't have specific
regression tests for each, they were more the result of reasoning about
what the old algorithm would possibly do wrong. I'm also failing at the
moment to craft more targeted regression tests for these changes, if
anyone has ideas, it would be welcome.

The first big thing broken with the old algorithm is the idea that we
can take a basic block which has a loop-exiting successor and a looping
successor and use the looping successor as the layout top in order to
get that particular block to be the bottom of the loop after layout.
This happens to work in many cases, but not in all.

The second big thing broken was that we didn't try to select the exit
which fell into the nearest enclosing loop (to which we exit at all). As
a consequence, even if the rotation worked perfectly, it would result in
one of two bad layouts. Either the bottom of the loop would get
fallthrough, skipping across a nearer enclosing loop and thereby making
it discontiguous, or it would be forced to take an explicit jump over
the nearest enclosing loop to earch its successor. The point of the
rotation is to get fallthrough, so we need it to fallthrough to the
nearest loop it can.

The fix to the first issue is to actually layout the loop from the loop
header, and then rotate the loop such that the correct exiting edge can
be a fallthrough edge. This is actually much easier than I anticipated
because we can handle all the hard parts of finding a viable rotation
before we do the layout. We just store that, and then rotate after
layout is finished. No inner loops get split across the post-rotation
backedge because we check for them when selecting the rotation.

That fix exposed a latent problem with our exitting block selection --
we should allow the backedge to point into the middle of some inner-loop
chain as there is no real penalty to it, the whole point is that it
*won't* be a fallthrough edge. This may have blocked the rotation at all
in some cases, I have no idea and no test case as I've never seen it in
practice, it was just noticed by inspection.

Finally, all of these fixes, and studying the loops they produce,
highlighted another problem: in rotating loops like this, we sometimes
fail to align the destination of these backwards jumping edges. Fix this
by actually walking the backwards edges rather than relying on loopinfo.

This fixes regressions on heapsort if block placement is enabled as well
as lots of other cases where the previous logic would introduce an
abundance of unnecessary branches into the execution.

llvm-svn: 154783

the loop header has a non-loop predecessor which has been pre-fused into
its chain due to unanalyzable branches. In this case, rotating the
header into the body of the loop in order to place a loop exit at the
bottom of the loop is a Very Bad Idea as it makes the loop
non-contiguous.

I'm working on a good test case for this, but it's a bit annoynig to
craft. I should get one shortly, but I'm submitting this now so I can
begin the (lengthy) performance analysis process. An initial run of LNT
looks really, really good, but there is too much noise there for me to
trust it much.

llvm-svn: 154395

where a chain outside of the loop block-set ended up in the worklist for
scheduling as part of the contiguous loop. However, asserting the first
block in the chain is in the loop-set isn't a valid check -- we may be
forced to drag a chain into the worklist due to one block in the chain
being part of the loop even though the first block is *not* in the loop.
This occurs when we have been forced to form a chain early due to
un-analyzable branches.

No test case here as I have no idea how to even begin reducing one, and
it will be hopelessly fragile. We have to somehow end up with a loop
header of an inner loop which is a successor of a basic block with an
unanalyzable pair of branch instructions. Ow. Self-host triggers it so
it is unlikely it will regress.

This at least gets block placement back to passing selfhost and the test
suite. There are still a lot of slowdown that I don't like coming out of
block placement, although there are now also a lot of speedups. =[ I'm
seeing swings in both directions up to 10%. I'm going to try to find
time to dig into this and see if we can turn this on for 3.1 as it does
a really good job of cleaning up after some loops that degraded with the
inliner changes.

llvm-svn: 154287

debugging.

llvm-svn: 154286

Moving toward a uniform style of pass definition to allow easier target configuration.
Globally declare Pass ID.
Globally declare pass initializer.
Use INITIALIZE_PASS consistently.
Add a call to the initializer from CodeGen.cpp.
Remove redundant "createPass" functions and "getPassName" methods.

While cleaning up declarations, cleaned up comments (sorry for large diff).

llvm-svn: 150100

don't get any serious benefit there.

llvm-svn: 147101

- Add some constantness.

llvm-svn: 147090

Skip two looking up at BlockChain.

llvm-svn: 146053

llvm-svn: 145995

- Remove unused types/fields.
- Add some constantness.

llvm-svn: 145993

fallthrough) in cases where we might fail to rotate an exit to an outer
loop onto the end of the loop chain.

Having *some* rotation, but not performing this rotation, is the primary
fix of thep performance regression with -enable-block-placement for
Olden/em3d (a whopping 30% regression). Still working on reducing the
test case that actually exercises this and the new rotation strategy out
of this code, but I want to check if this regresses other test cases
first as that may indicate it isn't the correct fix.

llvm-svn: 145195

was centered around the premise of laying out a loop in a chain, and
then rotating that chain. This is good for preserving contiguous layout,
but bad for actually making sane rotations. In order to keep it safe,
I had to essentially make it impossible to rotate deeply nested loops.
The information needed to correctly reason about a deeply nested loop is
actually available -- *before* we layout the loop. We know the inner
loops are already fused into chains, etc. We lose information the moment
we actually lay out the loop.

The solution was the other alternative for this algorithm I discussed
with Benjamin and some others: rather than rotating the loop
after-the-fact, try to pick a profitable starting block for the loop's
layout, and then use our existing layout logic. I was worried about the
complexity of this "pick" step, but it turns out such complexity is
needed to handle all the important cases I keep teasing out of benchmarks.

This is, I'm afraid, a bit of a work-in-progress. It is still
misbehaving on some likely important cases I'm investigating in Olden.
It also isn't really tested. I'm going to try to craft some interesting
nested-loop test cases, but it's likely to be extremely time consuming
and I don't want to go there until I'm sure I'm testing the correct
behavior. Sadly I can't come up with a way of getting simple, fine
grained test cases for this logic. We need complex loop structures to
even trigger much of it.

llvm-svn: 145183

llvm-svn: 145181

heavily on AnalyzeBranch. That routine doesn't behave as we want given
that rotation occurs mid-way through re-ordering the function. Instead
merely check that there are not unanalyzable branching constructs
present, and then reason about the CFG via successor lists. This
actually simplifies my mental model for all of this as well.

The concrete result is that we now will rotate more loop chains. I've
added a test case from Olden highlighting the effect. There is still
a bit more to do here though in order to regain all of the performance
in Olden.

llvm-svn: 145179

pass. This is designed to achieve one of the important optimizations
that the old code placement pass did, but more simply.

This is a somewhat rough and *very* conservative version of the
transform. We could get a lot fancier here if there are profitable cases
to do so. In particular, this only looks for a single pattern, it
insists that the loop backedge being rotated away is the last backedge
in the chain, and it doesn't provide any means of doing better in-loop
placement due to the rotation. However, it appears that it will handle
the important loops I am finding in the LLVM test suite.

llvm-svn: 145158

need lots of fanciness around retaining a reference to a Chain's slot in
the BlockToChain map, but that's all gone now. We can just go directly
to allocating the new chain (which will update the mapping for us) and
using it.

Somewhat gross mechanically generated test case replicates the issue
Duncan spotted when actually testing this out.

llvm-svn: 145120

conflicts, we should only be adding the first block of the chain to the
list, lest we try to merge into the middle of that chain. Most of the
places we were doing this we already happened to be looking at the first
block, but there is no reason to assume that, and in some cases it was
clearly wrong.

I've added a couple of tests here. One already worked, but I like having
an explicit test for it. The other is reduced from a test case Duncan
reduced for me and used to crash. Now it is handled correctly.

llvm-svn: 145119

further. This invariant just wasn't going to work in the face of
unanalyzable branches; we need to be resillient to the phenomenon of
chains poking into a loop and poking out of a loop. In fact, we already
were, we just needed to not assert on it.

This was found during a bootstrap with block placement turned on.

llvm-svn: 145100

reversed in the function's original ordering, and we happened to
encounter it while handling an outer unnatural CFG structure.

Thanks to the test case reduced from GCC's source by Benjamin Kramer.
This may also fix a crasher in gzip that Duncan reduced for me, but
I haven't yet gotten to testing that one.

llvm-svn: 145094

properly account for the *global* probability of the edge being taken.
This manifested as a very large number of unconditional branches to
blocks being merged against the CFG even though they weren't
particularly hot within the CFG.

The fix is to check whether the edge being merged is both locally hot
relative to other successors for the source block, and globally hot
compared to other (unmerged) predecessors of the destination block.

This introduces a new crasher on GCC single-source, but it's currently
behind a flag, and Ben has offered to work on the reduction. =]

llvm-svn: 145010

formation phase and into the initial walk of the basic blocks. We
essentially pre-merge all blocks where unanalyzable fallthrough exists,
as we won't be able to update the terminators effectively after any
reorderings. This is quite a bit more principled as there may be CFGs
where the second half of the unanalyzable pair has some analyzable
predecessor that gets placed first. Then it may get placed next,
implicitly breaking the unanalyzable branch even though we never even
looked at the part that isn't analyzable. I've included a test case that
triggers this (thanks Benjamin yet again!), and I'm hoping to synthesize
some more general ones as I dig into related issues.

Also, to make this new scheme work we have to be able to handle branches
into the middle of a chain, so add this check. We always fallback on the
incoming ordering.

Finally, this starts to really underscore a known limitation of the
current implementation -- we don't consider broken predecessors when
merging successors. This can caused major missed opportunities, and is
something I'm planning on looking at next (modulo more bug reports).

llvm-svn: 144994

block sequence when recovering from unanalyzable control flow
constructs, *always* use the function sequence. I'm not sure why I ever
went down the path of trying to use the loop sequence, it is
fundamentally not the correct sequence to use. We're trying to preserve
the incoming layout in the cases of unreasonable control flow, and that
is only encoded at the function level. We already have a filter to
select *exactly* the sub-set of blocks within the function that we're
trying to form into a chain.

The resulting code layout is also significantly better because of this.
In several places we were ending up with completely unreasonable control
flow constructs due to the ordering chosen by the loop structure for its
internal storage. This change removes a completely wasteful vector of
basic blocks, saving memory allocation in the common case even though it
costs us CPU in the fairly rare case of unnatural loops. Finally, it
fixes the latest crasher reduced out of GCC's single source. Thanks
again to Benjamin Kramer for the reduction, my bugpoint skills failed at
it.

llvm-svn: 144627

cleans up all the chains allocated during the processing of each
function so that for very large inputs we don't just grow memory usage
without bound.

llvm-svn: 144533