[PATCH 6/6] ipa-cp: Separate and increase the large-unit parameter

[Martin Jambor]

Hi,

a previous patch in the series has taught IPA-CP to identify the
important cloning opportunities in 548.exchange2_r as worthwhile on
their own, but the optimization is still prevented from taking place
because of the overall unit-growh limit.  This patches raises that
limit so that it takes place and the benchmark runs 30% faster (on AMD
Zen2 CPU at least).

Before this patch, IPA-CP uses the following formulae to arrive at the
overall_size limit:

base = MAX(orig_size, param_large_unit_insns)
overall_size_limit = base + base * param_ipa_cp_unit_growth / 100

since param_ipa_cp_unit_growth has default 10, param_large_unit_insns
has default value 10000.

The problem with exchange2 (at least on zen2 but I have had a quick
look on aarch64 too) is that the original estimated unit size is 10513
and so param_large_unit_insns does not apply and the default limit is
therefore 11564 which is good enough only for one of the ideal 8
clonings, we need the limit to be at least 16291.

I would like to raise param_ipa_cp_unit_growth a little bit more soon
too, but most certainly not to 55.  Therefore, the large_unit must be
increased.  In this patch, I decided to decouple the inlining and
ipa-cp large-unit parameters.  It also makes sense because IPA-CP uses
it only at -O3 while inlining also at -O2 (IIUC).  But if we agree we
can try raising param_large_unit_insns to 13-14 thousand
"instructions," perhaps it is not necessary.  But then again, it may
make sense to actually increase the IPA-CP limit further.

I plan to experiment with IPA-CP tuning on a larger set of programs.
Meanwhile, mainly to address the 548.exchange2_r regression, I'm
suggesting this simple change.

Bootstrapped and tested and LTO bootstrapped on x86_64 as a part of
the whole series.

OK for trunk?

Thanks,

Martin


gcc/ChangeLog:

2020-09-07  Martin Jambor  <mjambor@suse.cz>

	* params.opt (ipa-cp-large-unit-insns): New parameter.
	* ipa-cp.c (get_max_overall_size): Use the new parameter.
---
 gcc/ipa-cp.c   | 2 +-
 gcc/params.opt | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gcc/ipa-cp.c b/gcc/ipa-cp.c
index 12acf24c553..2152f9e5876 100644
--- a/gcc/ipa-cp.c
+++ b/gcc/ipa-cp.c
@@ -3448,7 +3448,7 @@ static long
 get_max_overall_size (cgraph_node *node)
 {
   long max_new_size = orig_overall_size;
-  long large_unit = opt_for_fn (node->decl, param_large_unit_insns);
+  long large_unit = opt_for_fn (node->decl, param_ipa_cp_large_unit_insns);
   if (max_new_size < large_unit)
     max_new_size = large_unit;
   int unit_growth = opt_for_fn (node->decl, param_ipa_cp_unit_growth);
diff --git a/gcc/params.opt b/gcc/params.opt
index 97509963d71..ef2c1f81dd7 100644
--- a/gcc/params.opt
+++ b/gcc/params.opt
@@ -214,6 +214,10 @@ Percentage penalty functions containing a single call to another function will r
 Common Joined UInteger Var(param_ipa_cp_unit_growth) Init(10) Param Optimization
 How much can given compilation unit grow because of the interprocedural constant propagation (in percent).
 
+-param=ipa-cp-large-unit-insns=
+Common Joined UInteger Var(param_ipa_cp_large_unit_insns) Optimization Init(16000) Param
+The size of translation unit that IPA-CP pass considers large.
+
 -param=ipa-cp-value-list-size=
 Common Joined UInteger Var(param_ipa_cp_value_list_size) Init(8) Param Optimization
 Maximum size of a list of values associated with each parameter for interprocedural constant propagation.
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