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Re: [PATCH, PR 49089] Don't split AVX256 unaligned loads by default on bdver1 and generic
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Fang, Changpeng
<Changpeng.Fang@amd.com> wrote:
>>I have no problems on -mtune=Bulldozer. ?But I object -mtune=generic
>>change and did suggest a different approach for -mtune=generic.
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> Something must have been broken for the unaligned load splitting in generic mode.
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> While we lose 1.3% on CFP2006 in geomean by splitting unaligned loads for -mtune=bdver1, splitting
> unaligned loads in generic mode is KILLING us:
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> For 459.GemsFDTD (ref) on Bulldozer,
> ?-Ofast -mavx -mno-avx256-split-unaligned-load: ? 480s
> -Ofast -mavx ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? : ? ?2527s
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> So, splitting unaligned loads results in the program to run 5~6 times slower!
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> For 434.zeusmp train run
> ?-Ofast -mavx -mno-avx256-split-unaligned-load: ? 32.5s
> -Ofast -mavx ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? : ? ?106s
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> Other tests are on-going!
I suspect that the split loads get further split into mov[lh]ps pieces?
We do that for SSE moves with generic tuning at least IIRC.
Richard.
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> Changpeng.
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