Sebastian Pop cfc6ce983e instr-combiner: sum up all latencies of the transformed instructions
We have found that -- when the selected subarchitecture has a scheduling model
and we are not optimizing for size -- the machine-instruction combiner uses a
too-simple algorithm to compute the cost of one of the two alternatives [before
and after running a combining pass on a section of code], and therefor it throws
away the combination results too often.

This fix has the potential to help any ISA with the potential to combine
instructions and for which at least one subarchitecture has a scheduling model.
As of now, this is only known to definitely affect AArch64 subarchitectures with
a scheduling model.

Regression tested on AMD64/GNU-Linux, new test case tested to fail on an
unpatched compiler and pass on a patched compiler.

Patch by Abe Skolnik and Sebastian Pop.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@289399 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2016-12-11 19:39:32 +00:00
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