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[AArch64] Give some new costs for Cortex-A57 floating-point operations


Hi,

This patch rebases the floating-point cost table for Cortex-A57 to be
relative to the cost of a floating-point move. This in response to this
feedback from Richard Sandiford [2] on Ramana's patch to calls.c [1] from
2014:

  I think this is really a bug in the backend.  The backend is assigning a
  cost of COSTS_N_INSNS (3) to a floating-point constant not because the
  constant itself is expensive -- it's actually as cheap as a register
  in this context -- but because the backend considers floating-point
  moves to be 3 times more expensive than cheap integer moves.

The argument is that a move in mode X should be treated with cost
COSTS_N_INSNS (1), and other instructions should have a cost relative to
that move. For example, in this patch we say that instructions building a
floating-point constant are the same cost as a floating-point register to
register move. Fixing this fixes the issue Ramana was seeing, in a way
consistent with what other back-ends do.

This patch gives a small improvement to Spec2000FP on a Cortex-A57
platform.

Bootstrapped on aarch64-none-linux-gnu with no issues.

OK?

Thanks,
James

---
2016-06-03  James Greenhalgh  <james.greenhalgh@arm.com>

	* config/arm/aarch-cost-tables.h (cortexa57_extra_costs): Make FP
	costs relative to the cost of a register move.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-10/msg00136.html
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-10/msg00391.html

diff --git a/gcc/config/arm/aarch-cost-tables.h b/gcc/config/arm/aarch-cost-tables.h
index c971b30..5f42253 100644
--- a/gcc/config/arm/aarch-cost-tables.h
+++ b/gcc/config/arm/aarch-cost-tables.h
@@ -294,35 +294,35 @@ const struct cpu_cost_table cortexa57_extra_costs =
   {
     /* FP SFmode */
     {
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (17),      /* div.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (5),       /* mult.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (9),       /* mult_addsub. */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (9),       /* fma.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (4),       /* addsub.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (2),       /* fpconst. */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (2),       /* neg.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (2),       /* compare.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (4),       /* widen.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (4),       /* narrow.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (4),       /* toint.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (4),       /* fromint.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (4)        /* roundint.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (6),      /* div.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1),       /* mult.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (2),       /* mult_addsub.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (2),       /* fma.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1),       /* addsub.  */
+      0,		       /* fpconst.  */
+      0,		       /* neg.  */
+      0,		       /* compare.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1),       /* widen.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1),       /* narrow.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1),       /* toint.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1),       /* fromint.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1)        /* roundint.  */
     },
     /* FP DFmode */
     {
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (31),      /* div.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (5),       /* mult.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (9),       /* mult_addsub.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (9),       /* fma.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (4),       /* addsub.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (2),       /* fpconst.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (2),       /* neg.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (2),       /* compare.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (4),       /* widen.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (4),       /* narrow.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (4),       /* toint.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (4),       /* fromint.  */
-      COSTS_N_INSNS (4)        /* roundint.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (11),      /* div.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1),       /* mult.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (2),       /* mult_addsub.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (2),       /* fma.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1),       /* addsub.  */
+      0,		       /* fpconst.  */
+      0,		       /* neg.  */
+      0,		       /* compare.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1),       /* widen.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1),       /* narrow.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1),       /* toint.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1),       /* fromint.  */
+      COSTS_N_INSNS (1)        /* roundint.  */
     }
   },
   /* Vector */

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