(NPM: new pass manager; LPM: legacy pass manager)
In a first quick experiment today I compared code-size of the LMP vs. the NMP for the CSiBE benchmark (and some other), and this shows code-size increases with the NPM that would probably be unacceptable for us. So, now I am wondering how/if we need to mitigate this, and have a bunch of questions.
As I’ve noticed quite some activity around the NPM recently, I am first of all curious if there’s an idea or estimate when the NPM will be enabled? And sorry if I missed this. That would give us an idea how much time we have to tune the NMP and the pipeline for code-size, which I think would be the obvious mitigation. Other questions would be if the NPM is mostly tuned for performance at the moment, if others have observed code-size increases too, and if flipping the switch from the LPM to NPM would be for all optimisation levels at the same time, or if we e.g. will fall back to the old one for some?
Thanks,
Sjoerd.
There’s no official timeline for switching to the NPM, but I am trying to get it ready ASAP.
What flags are you using for code size? I’m not familiar with the internals of the NPM optimization passes especially in regards to code size, adding some people who may be more familiar.
Extracting some test cases to demonstrate the issue would be helpful for triaging purposes.
David
Thanks for your replies.
As I wrote in the other thread today, I need a little bit of time to get up to speed here. I.e. need to start collecting more benchmark data, and start doing some analysis which I haven’t done yet. I think the code-size problems will be visible with just -Oz, that’s essentially the only flag I used for CSiBE. But I will first start collecting some data on the llvm test-suite (and also for -Os), that’s probably best for the discussion here upstream, to confirm that shows the same trend as on our (downstream / other) benchmarks.
Just to give an early impression, I have copied numbers for CSiBE below. The second column shows the number of bytes for the different apps using the LPM, the third column using the NPM, an the fourth column is the percentage difference. This shows there one improvement, bzip2, and all the others have regressed significantly for code-size standards.
app LPM NPM Diff
csibe/OpenTCP-1.0.4 21399 21603 0.95%
csibe/bzip2-1.0.2 48144 47956 -0.39%
csibe/cg_compiler_opensrc 96007 96511 0.52%
csibe/compiler 19358 19464 0.55%
csibe/jikespg-1.3 171786 175040 1.89%
csibe/jpeg-6b 94953 97341 2.51%
csibe/libpng-1.2.5 78085 79097 1.29%
csibe/lwip-0.5.3.preproc 68243 68525 0.41%
csibe/mpeg2dec-0.3.1 37266 37402 0.36%
csibe/mpgcut-1.1 7480 7620 1.87%
csibe/teem-1.6.0-src 1089031 1093291 0.39%
csibe/ttt-0.10.1.preproc 12679 13035 2.81%
csibe/unrarlib-0.4.0 10160 10304 1.42%
csibe/zlib-1.1.4 29003 29375 1.28% csibe 1783594 1796564 0.73%