Hi, This patch follows the discussion here[1], where Segher pointed out the existing way to guard the extra penalized cost for strided/elementwise loads with a magic bound doesn't scale.
The way with nunits * stmt_cost can get one much exaggerated penalized cost, such as: for V16QI on P8, it's 16 * 20 = 320, that's why we need one bound. To make it scale, this patch doesn't use nunits * stmt_cost any more, but it still keeps nunits since there are actually nunits scalar loads there. So it uses one cost adjusted from stmt_cost, since the current stmt_cost sort of considers nunits, we can stablize the cost for big nunits and retain the cost for small nunits. After some tries, this patch gets the adjusted cost as: stmt_cost / (log2(nunits) * log2(nunits)) For V16QI, the adjusted cost would be 1 and total penalized cost is 16, it isn't exaggerated. For V2DI, the adjusted cost would be 2 and total penalized cost is 4, which is the same as before. btw, I tried to use one single log2(nunits), but the penalized cost is still big enough and can't fix the degraded bmk blender_r. The separated SPEC2017 evaluations on Power8, Power9 and Power10 at option sets O2-vect and Ofast-unroll showed this change is neutral (that is same effect as before). Bootstrapped and regress-tested on powerpc64le-linux-gnu Power9. Is it ok for trunk? [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2021-September/579121.html BR, Kewen ----- gcc/ChangeLog: * config/rs6000/rs6000.c (rs6000_update_target_cost_per_stmt): Adjust the way to compute extra penalized cost. --- gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c b/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c index 4ab23b0ab33..e08b94c0447 100644 --- a/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c +++ b/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c @@ -5454,17 +5454,23 @@ rs6000_update_target_cost_per_stmt (rs6000_cost_data *data, { tree vectype = STMT_VINFO_VECTYPE (stmt_info); unsigned int nunits = vect_nunits_for_cost (vectype); - unsigned int extra_cost = nunits * stmt_cost; - /* As function rs6000_builtin_vectorization_cost shows, we have - priced much on V16QI/V8HI vector construction as their units, - if we penalize them with nunits * stmt_cost, it can result in - an unreliable body cost, eg: for V16QI on Power8, stmt_cost - is 20 and nunits is 16, the extra cost is 320 which looks - much exaggerated. So let's use one maximum bound for the - extra penalized cost for vector construction here. */ - const unsigned int MAX_PENALIZED_COST_FOR_CTOR = 12; - if (extra_cost > MAX_PENALIZED_COST_FOR_CTOR) - extra_cost = MAX_PENALIZED_COST_FOR_CTOR; + /* As function rs6000_builtin_vectorization_cost shows, we + have priced much on V16QI/V8HI vector construction by + considering their units, if we penalize them with nunits + * stmt_cost here, it can result in an unreliable body cost, + eg: for V16QI on Power8, stmt_cost is 20 and nunits is 16, + the penalty will be 320 which looks much exaggerated. But + there are actually nunits scalar loads, so we try to adopt + one reasonable penalized cost for each load rather than + stmt_cost. Here, with stmt_cost dividing by log2(nunits)^2, + we can still retain the necessary penalty for small nunits + meanwhile stabilize the penalty for big nunits. */ + int nunits_log2 = exact_log2 (nunits); + gcc_assert (nunits_log2 > 0); + unsigned int nunits_sq = nunits_log2 * nunits_log2; + unsigned int adjusted_cost = stmt_cost / nunits_sq; + gcc_assert (adjusted_cost > 0); + unsigned int extra_cost = nunits * adjusted_cost; data->extra_ctor_cost += extra_cost; } } -- 2.25.1