llvm dev - Jun 2016 - Loop unrolling parameters

We've notice that when loops are unrolled there seems to be a limit of 64
subexpressions that can be assigned to registers. In our architecture we've
got a lot more registers available than just 64. Is there some parameter we
can change to the loop unroller that allows more subexpressions to be
assigned to a number of registers beyond 64?

Phil
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> On Jun 27, 2016, at 2:19 PM, Phil Tomson via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at
lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> We've notice that when loops are unrolled there seems to be a limit of
64 subexpressions that can be assigned to registers. In our architecture
we've got a lot more registers available than just 64. Is there some
parameter we can change to the loop unroller that allows more subexpressions to
be assigned to a number of registers beyond 64?
Hi Phil,

I’m not sure I understood your question correctly, but loop-unroller does have
parameters that you can try. The most interesting and easy to use is probably
‘-unroll-threshold’. You can try
$ clang $YOUR_FLAGS -mllvm -unroll-threshold=500 test.c

With this parameter you can control how many loops get completely unrolled.

You also can find other flags to control loop-unrolling with the following
command:
$ opt --help-hidden | grep unroll

Best regards,
Michael
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> Phil
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