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Commit 5fa9d416 authored by Chris Lattner's avatar Chris Lattner
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[Support/Parallel] Add a special case for 0/1 items to llvm::parallel_for_each.

This avoids the non-trivial overhead of creating a TaskGroup in these degenerate
cases, but also exposes parallelism.  It turns out that the default executor
underlying TaskGroup prevents recursive parallelism - so an instance of a task
group being alive will make nested ones become serial.

This is a big issue in MLIR in some dialects, if they have a single instance of
an outer op (e.g. a firrtl.circuit) that has many parallel ops within it (e.g.
a firrtl.module).  This patch side-steps the problem by avoiding creating the
TaskGroup in the unneeded case.  See this issue for more details:
https://github.com/llvm/circt/issues/993

Note that this isn't a really great solution for the general case of nested
parallelism.  A redesign of the TaskGroup stuff would be better, but would be
a much more invasive change.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101699
parent 31751ce1
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