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Re: [PATCH][RFC] Fix PR56113 more


On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Richard Biener wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 10:00:00AM +0100, Richard Biener wrote:
> > > 
> > > This reduces compile-time of the testcase in PR56113 (with n = 40000)
> > > from 575s to 353s.  It does so by reducing the quadratic algorithm
> > > to impose an order on visiting dominator sons during a domwalk.
> > > 
> > > Steven raises the issue that there exist domwalk users that modify
> > > the CFG during the walk and thus the new scheme does not work
> > > (at least optimally, as the current quadratic scheme does).  As
> > > we are using a fixed-size sbitmap to track visited blocks existing
> > > domwalks cannot add new blocks to the CFG so the worst thing that
> > > can happen is that the order of dominator sons is no longer
> > > optimal (I suppose with the "right" CFG manipulations even the
> > > domwalk itself does not work - so I'd be hesitant to try to support
> > > such domwalk users) - back to the state before any ordering
> > > was imposed on the dom children visits (see rev 159100).
> > 
> > I think it would be desirable to first analyze the failures Steven saw, if
> > any.  As you said, asan doesn't use domwalk, so it is a mystery to me.
> 
> Yeah.  Now, fortunately domwalk.h is only directly included and thus
> the set of optimizers using it are
> 
> compare-elim.c:#include "domwalk.h"
> domwalk.c:#include "domwalk.h"
> fwprop.c:#include "domwalk.h"
> gimple-ssa-strength-reduction.c:#include "domwalk.h"
> graphite-sese-to-poly.c:#include "domwalk.h"
> tree-into-ssa.c:#include "domwalk.h"
> tree-ssa-dom.c:#include "domwalk.h"
> tree-ssa-dse.c:#include "domwalk.h"
> tree-ssa-loop-im.c:#include "domwalk.h"
> tree-ssa-math-opts.c:   If we did this using domwalk.c, an efficient 
> implementation would have
> tree-ssa-phiopt.c:#include "domwalk.h"
> tree-ssa-pre.c:#include "domwalk.h"
> tree-ssa-pre.c:/* Local state for the eliminate domwalk.  */
> tree-ssa-pre.c:   eliminate domwalk.  */
> tree-ssa-pre.c:/* At the current point of the eliminate domwalk make OP 
> available.  */
> tree-ssa-pre.c:/* Perform elimination for the basic-block B during the 
> domwalk.  */
> tree-ssa-strlen.c:#include "domwalk.h"
> tree-ssa-uncprop.c:#include "domwalk.h"
> 
> I don't see any target specific ones that do not have coverage
> with x86_64 multilib testing (maybe compare-elim.c?  though that
> doesn't really require a domwalk as it is only using the
> before_dom_children hook).  That said, arbitrary CFG manipulations
> during domwalk certainly will not preserve "domwalk" properties
> of a domwalk.
> 
> Steven - can you reproduce your failures (and on which target?)

Ping.

I'm not sure what to do about this old compile-time regression.
Apart from this known issue in domwalk.c GCC 4.8 scalability (at -O1)
looks quite good.  I can certainly push it back to 4.9 if you think
it's too risky to fix now.

Thanks,
Richard.


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