[PATCH][AArch64] Increase code alignment

Wilco Dijkstra Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com
Fri Jun 3 10:52:00 GMT 2016


Increase loop alignment on Cortex cores to 8 and set function alignment to 16.  This makes things consistent across big.LITTLE cores, improves performance of benchmarks with tight loops and reduces performance variations due to small changes in code layout. It looks almost all AArch64 cores agree on alignment of 16 for function, and 8 for loops and branches, so we should change -mcpu=generic as well if there is no disagreement - feedback welcome.

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ChangeLog:

2016-05-03  Wilco Dijkstra  <wdijkstr@arm.com>

	* gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c (cortexa53_tunings):
	Increase loop alignment to 8.  Set function alignment to 16.
	(cortexa35_tunings): Likewise.
	(cortexa57_tunings): Increase loop alignment to 8.
	(cortexa72_tunings): Likewise.

---

diff --git a/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c b/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
index 12e5017a6d4b0ab15dcf932014980fdbd1a598ee..6ea10a187a1f895a399515b8cd0da0be63be827a 100644
--- a/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
+++ b/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
@@ -424,9 +424,9 @@ static const struct tune_params cortexa35_tunings =
   1, /* issue_rate  */
   (AARCH64_FUSE_MOV_MOVK | AARCH64_FUSE_ADRP_ADD
    | AARCH64_FUSE_MOVK_MOVK | AARCH64_FUSE_ADRP_LDR), /* fusible_ops  */
-  8,	/* function_align.  */
+  16,	/* function_align.  */
   8,	/* jump_align.  */
-  4,	/* loop_align.  */
+  8,	/* loop_align.  */
   2,	/* int_reassoc_width.  */
   4,	/* fp_reassoc_width.  */
   1,	/* vec_reassoc_width.  */
@@ -449,9 +449,9 @@ static const struct tune_params cortexa53_tunings =
   2, /* issue_rate  */
   (AARCH64_FUSE_AES_AESMC | AARCH64_FUSE_MOV_MOVK | AARCH64_FUSE_ADRP_ADD
    | AARCH64_FUSE_MOVK_MOVK | AARCH64_FUSE_ADRP_LDR), /* fusible_ops  */
-  8,	/* function_align.  */
+  16,	/* function_align.  */
   8,	/* jump_align.  */
-  4,	/* loop_align.  */
+  8,	/* loop_align.  */
   2,	/* int_reassoc_width.  */
   4,	/* fp_reassoc_width.  */
   1,	/* vec_reassoc_width.  */
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ static const struct tune_params cortexa57_tunings =
    | AARCH64_FUSE_MOVK_MOVK), /* fusible_ops  */
   16,	/* function_align.  */
   8,	/* jump_align.  */
-  4,	/* loop_align.  */
+  8,	/* loop_align.  */
   2,	/* int_reassoc_width.  */
   4,	/* fp_reassoc_width.  */
   1,	/* vec_reassoc_width.  */
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ static const struct tune_params cortexa72_tunings =
    | AARCH64_FUSE_MOVK_MOVK), /* fusible_ops  */
   16,	/* function_align.  */
   8,	/* jump_align.  */
-  4,	/* loop_align.  */
+  8,	/* loop_align.  */
   2,	/* int_reassoc_width.  */
   4,	/* fp_reassoc_width.  */
   1,	/* vec_reassoc_width.  */



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