llvm dev - Sep 2018 - Unmodeled side effects and scheduling latency

Hi Mattias,

Not sure about the latency but you can implement a HazardRecognizer to
detect that case (MachineScheduler uses an instance of one)

Best,
Alex

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: llvm-dev [mailto:llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On Behalf Of
> Mattias Eriksson V via llvm-dev
> Sent: September-24-18 12:23 PM
> To: llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> Subject: [llvm-dev] Unmodeled side effects and scheduling latency
>
> Hi!
>
> I Have a question on how to think about instructions marked with
> "hasSideEffects = 1" in the scheduler. In my out-of-tree back-end
we
> recently had this situation:
>
> SU(0): set_configuration_reg
> SU(1): read_from_memory
>
> SU(0) is marked with "hasSideEffects = 1".
> ScheduleDAGInstrs::buildSchedGraph() considered there to be an
> order-dependency between the instructions, but set its latency to 0. So our
> custom VLIW scheduler put SU(0) and SU(1) in the same bundle. In reality
> the configuration register actually affects how the read behaves, so
> bundling these two caused a bug.
>
> Is the scheduler correct in setting the latency to 0 correct in this case?
>
>
> Mattias
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