[llvm-dev] X86PadShortFunction.cpp inserts noops twice (original) (raw)

Serguei Katkov via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Aug 1 20:31:30 PDT 2017


Interesting...

Tim, thank you for explanation.

Thank you, Serguei.

-----Original Message----- From: Tim Northover [mailto:t.p.northover at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 11:37 PM To: Serguei Katkov <serguei.katkov at azul.com> Cc: llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] X86PadShortFunction.cpp inserts noops twice

On 1 August 2017 at 01:04, Serguei Katkov via llvm-dev <llvm-_ _dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > What is the reason to add two noops? What am I missing? It does seem to be intentional (looking at the test) so my guess is that it's because the Atom is dual-issue (i.e. executes 2 instructions per cycle). The early part of the calculation and wording of the problem (in r171879) seems to be in cycles and then this code (with the misnamed "NOOPsToAdd") gets called to use up some number of them. Emitting 2 NOPs probably consumes both pipelines for 1 cycle. Cheers. Tim.



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