llvm/lib/Analysis
Bruno Cardoso Lopes 1610bcf8d9 [MemoryDepAnalysis] Fix compile time slowdown
- Problem
One program takes ~3min to compile under -O2. This happens after a certain
function A is inlined ~700 times in a function B, inserting thousands of new
BBs. This leads to 80% of the compilation time spent in
GVN::processNonLocalLoad and
MemoryDependenceAnalysis::getNonLocalPointerDependency, while searching for
nonlocal information for basic blocks.

Usually, to avoid spending a long time to process nonlocal loads, GVN bails out
if it gets more than 100 deps as a result from
MD->getNonLocalPointerDependency.  However this only happens *after* all
nonlocal information for BBs have been computed, which is the bottleneck in
this scenario. For instance, there are 8280 times where
getNonLocalPointerDependency returns deps with more than 100 bbs and from
those, 600 times it returns more than 1000 blocks.

- Solution
Bail out early during the nonlocal info computation whenever we reach a
specified threshold.  This patch proposes a 100 BBs threshold, it also
reduces the compile time from 3min to 23s.

- Testing
The test-suite presented no compile nor execution time regressions.

Some numbers from my machine (x86_64 darwin):
 - 17s under -Oz (which avoids inlining).
 - 1.3s under -O1.
 - 2m51s under -O2 ToT
 *** 23s under -O2 w/ Result.size() > 100
 - 1m54s under -O2 w/ Result.size() > 500

With NumResultsLimit = 100, GVN yields the same outcome as in the
unlimited 3min version.

http://reviews.llvm.org/D5532
rdar://problem/18188041

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@218792 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2014-10-01 20:07:13 +00:00
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2014-08-26 02:03:40 +00:00
2014-05-15 01:52:21 +00:00

Analysis Opportunities:

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In test/Transforms/LoopStrengthReduce/quadradic-exit-value.ll, the
ScalarEvolution expression for %r is this:

  {1,+,3,+,2}<loop>

Outside the loop, this could be evaluated simply as (%n * %n), however
ScalarEvolution currently evaluates it as

  (-2 + (2 * (trunc i65 (((zext i64 (-2 + %n) to i65) * (zext i64 (-1 + %n) to i65)) /u 2) to i64)) + (3 * %n))

In addition to being much more complicated, it involves i65 arithmetic,
which is very inefficient when expanded into code.

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In formatValue in test/CodeGen/X86/lsr-delayed-fold.ll,

ScalarEvolution is forming this expression:

((trunc i64 (-1 * %arg5) to i32) + (trunc i64 %arg5 to i32) + (-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32)))

This could be folded to

(-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32))

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