https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119168

            Bug ID: 119168
           Summary: [15 Regression] 5% 477.dealII slowdown since
                    r15-7605-gc5752c1f01316a
           Product: gcc
           Version: 15.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Keywords: missed-optimization
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: rtl-optimization
          Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
          Reporter: pheeck at gcc dot gnu.org
                CC: rsandifo at gcc dot gnu.org
            Blocks: 26163
  Target Milestone: ---
              Host: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
            Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

As seen here

https://lnt.opensuse.org/db_default/v4/SPEC/graph?plot.0=291.140.0

there was a 5% exec time slowdown of the 477.dealII SPEC 2006 benchmark when
run with -O2 -march=native on an AMD Zen2 machine.
I bisected it to r15-7605-gc5752c1f01316a

commit c5752c1f01316ac26ec9cf8d171d68aea420a158
Author: Richard Sandiford <richard.sandif...@arm.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 18 11:00:57 2025 +0000

    late-combine: Tighten register class check [PR108840]

    gcc.target/aarch64/pr108840.c has failed since r15-268-g9dbff9c05520
    (which means that I really ought to have looked at it earlier).

    The test wants us to fold an SImode AND into all shifts that use it.
    This is something that late-combine is supposed to do, but:

    (1) the pre-RA pass chickened out because of a register pressure check

    (2) the post-RA pass can't handle it, because the shift uses are in
        QImode and the sets are in SImode

    Both are things that would be good to fix.  But (1) is particularly
    silly.  The constraints on the AND have "rk" for the destination
    (so allowing the stack pointer) and "r" for the first source.
    Including the stack pointer made the destination seem more permissive
    than the source.

    The intention was instead to check whether there are any
    *allocatable* registers in the destination class that aren't
    present in the source.

    That's enough for all tests but the last one.  The last one still
    fails because combine merges the final shift with the move into
    the hard return register, giving an arithmetic instruction with
    a hard register destination.  Pre-RA late-combine currently punts
    on those, again due to register pressure concerns.  That too is
    something I'd like to relax, but not for GCC 15.  In the interim,
    the best thing seems to be to disable combine for the test.

    gcc/
            PR rtl-optimization/108840
            * late-combine.cc (late_combine::check_register_pressure):
            Take only allocatable registers into account when checking
            the permissiveness of register classes.

    gcc/testsuite/
            PR rtl-optimization/108840
            * gcc.target/aarch64/pr108840.c: Run at -O2 but disable combine.

 gcc/late-combine.cc                         | 10 ++++++++--
 gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/aarch64/pr108840.c |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


Btw, this benchmark has sped up a bit recently.  That was between

r15-7772-gdfdbad87aeb2de
r15-7895-gb191e8bdecf881

Maybe that was because of r15-7852-ge836d80374aa03a?  Anyway, now the benchmark
is almost at the same speed as with GCC 14.  See comparison with GCC 14 here:

https://lnt.opensuse.org/db_default/v4/SPEC/graph?plot.8=1051.140.0&plot.9=291.140.0&;


Referenced Bugs:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26163
[Bug 26163] [meta-bug] missed optimization in SPEC (2k17, 2k and 2k6 and 95)

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