Request for reviews (S): 6667595

Vladimir Kozlov Vladimir.Kozlov at Sun.COM
Thu Feb 28 14:31:56 PST 2008


I will suspend the 6667595 changes (see at the bottom) push
for further investigation since it inroduced the regression
in scimark.sparse, jvm98.compress, jvm98.mpegaudio.
Without it the rest of changes are fine.

Thanks,
Vladimir

% rwcompare -r ref.server_5pb0_m11 ref.server_5pb0_6667595
============================================================================
ref.server_5pb0_m11
   Benchmark         Samples        Mean     Stdev
   jetstream              20      133.45     14.54
     Copy                 20      107.95     52.44
     Parse                20      115.25      0.55
     Read                 20       18.20      0.52
     Write                20      162.55     18.26
   scimark                20      628.57      0.75
     Sparse               20      491.83      1.19
     LU                   20     1266.50      2.60
     SOR                  20     1040.44      1.69
     FFT                  20       35.32      0.03
     Monte                20      308.76      0.08
   specjvm98              20      582.67      2.70
     javac                20      406.57      3.60
     db                   20      321.79      2.20
     jess                 20      626.98      3.41
     jack                 20      465.16      5.81
     compress             20      501.72      8.59
     mtrt                 20     1596.34     19.49
     mpegaudio            20      746.32      1.80
   volano25               20   175659.75   2567.56
     connections          20      400.00      0.00
     time                 20        4.56      0.07
============================================================================
ref.server_5pb0_6667595
   Benchmark         Samples        Mean     Stdev   %Diff    P   Significant
   jetstream              20      132.99     15.36   -0.35 0.923            *
     Copy                 20      114.20     53.06   -5.79 0.710            *
     Parse                20      114.85      0.49    0.35 0.020            *
     Read                 20       18.00      0.46    1.10 0.207            *
     Write                20      157.95     17.77    2.83 0.424            *
   scimark                20      627.41      0.54   -0.18 0.000          Yes
     Sparse               20      484.32      0.20   -1.53 0.000          Yes
     LU                   20     1268.91      2.34    0.19 0.004          Yes
     SOR                  20     1039.75      1.72   -0.07 0.209            *
     FFT                  20       35.32      0.03    0.00 0.996            *
     Monte                20      308.77      0.08    0.00 0.864            *
   specjvm98              20      581.29      1.62   -0.24 0.059            *
     javac                20      405.99      3.79   -0.14 0.623            *
     db                   20      321.75      2.31   -0.01 0.956            *
     jess                 20      628.42      2.32    0.23 0.127            *
     jack                 20      464.62      5.79   -0.12 0.768            *
     compress             20      494.36      1.97   -1.47 0.001          Yes
     mtrt                 20     1612.23     16.80    0.99 0.009          Yes
     mpegaudio            20      737.84      1.82   -1.14 0.000          Yes
   volano25               20   175913.16   1695.56    0.14 0.715            *
     connections          20      400.00      0.00    0.00 0.000          Yes
     time                 20        4.55      0.04    0.16 0.697            *
============================================================================

% rwcompare -r ref.server_5pb0_m11 ref.server_5pb0_no_6667595
============================================================================
ref.server_5pb0_m11
   Benchmark         Samples        Mean     Stdev
   jetstream              20      133.45     14.54
     Copy                 20      107.95     52.44
     Parse                20      115.25      0.55
     Read                 20       18.20      0.52
     Write                20      162.55     18.26
   scimark                20      628.57      0.75
     Sparse               20      491.83      1.19
     LU                   20     1266.50      2.60
     SOR                  20     1040.44      1.69
     FFT                  20       35.32      0.03
     Monte                20      308.76      0.08
   specjvm98              20      582.67      2.70
     javac                20      406.57      3.60
     db                   20      321.79      2.20
     jess                 20      626.98      3.41
     jack                 20      465.16      5.81
     compress             20      501.72      8.59
     mtrt                 20     1596.34     19.49
     mpegaudio            20      746.32      1.80
   volano25               20   175659.75   2567.56
     connections          20      400.00      0.00
     time                 20        4.56      0.07
============================================================================
ref.server_5pb0_no_6667595
   Benchmark         Samples        Mean     Stdev   %Diff    P   Significant
   jetstream              20      131.83     17.43   -1.21 0.751            *
     Copy                 20      122.80     54.19  -13.76 0.384            *
     Parse                20      115.05      0.60    0.17 0.281            *
     Read                 20       17.95      0.69    1.37 0.203            *
     Write                20      152.35     11.45    6.27 0.042            *
   scimark                20      628.91      0.63    0.05 0.124            *
     Sparse               20      492.13      0.28    0.06 0.277            *
     LU                   20     1267.55      2.02    0.08 0.162            *
     SOR                  20     1040.78      1.74    0.03 0.540            *
     FFT                  20       35.33      0.02    0.02 0.316            *
     Monte                20      308.78      0.06    0.01 0.445            *
   specjvm98              20      583.30      2.55    0.11 0.454            *
     javac                20      406.16      4.43   -0.10 0.749            *
     db                   20      321.39      2.53   -0.13 0.593            *
     jess                 20      626.66      2.82   -0.05 0.751            *
     jack                 20      467.51      4.96    0.50 0.178            *
     compress             20      501.30      6.51   -0.08 0.861            *
     mtrt                 20     1606.65     19.31    0.65 0.101            *
     mpegaudio            20      746.07      2.02   -0.03 0.679            *
   volano25               20   175220.75   2102.28   -0.25 0.558            *
     connections          20      400.00      0.00    0.00 0.000          Yes
     time                 20        4.57      0.06   -0.24 0.573            *
============================================================================



Tom Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> 6667595: looks ok.  That seems like it will have a lot of impact on the 
> generated code.  have you benchmarked that change by itself?
> 
> Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>
>> http://webrev.invokedynamic.info/kvn/6667595/index.html
>>
>> Fixed 6667595: Set probability FAIR for pre-, post- loops and ALWAYS 
>> for main loop
>>
>> Problem:
>> C2 clone original loop's probability when it constructs pre-, main, 
>> post- loops.
>> Then C2 adds zero-trip guard for main loop with probability FAIR.
>> As result a main loop's probability could be half of a pre-loop's 
>> probability
>> and RA may generates stack spills in the main loop and not in the 
>> pre-loop.
>>
>> Solution:
>> Set probability FAIR for pre-, post- loops and ALWAYS for zero-trip 
>> guard for main loop
>> assuming a main loop is executed always.
>>



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