FEX has a problem with large blocks that uses a ton of constants spread
throughout the block. Once a block gets large enough with enough
constants that have large live ranges, FEX slows down to unusable speeds
due to the register allocator spending more time calculating node
interferences than anything else in the program.
This adds a little heuristic to ensure that constants aren't reused if
the previous value is past a certain distance threshold. This threshold
works well enough that XeSS's pedantic initialization code doesn't have
issues now. See https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX/issues/2688 for more
information about that.
FEX itself should work to remove bad constant usages to make this pass
less necessary anyway. In most cases we are materializing duplicated 0,
1, and masks which could be done without a constant entirely.
Maybe once we've improve that enough we could remove this constant
pooling entirely.
To note, this doesn't fix the issue that XeSS causes our register
allocator, this is purely a heuristic workaround.
AddNZCV is a new op to return the NZCV for an addition directly, which lets us
skip software flag calculation in some cases. In the future it would be nice to
fuse this into the Add itself as a second destination to avoid repeating the
addition, but that's a very involved change and right now I'm building FEX on an
old Chromebook because my M1 kernel is FUBAR.
Similarly, SubNZCV returns flags for Sub. This has the extra twist of needing to
invert the carry bit due to the inverted definition between arm64 and x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>
Changes the idiom used for constant mask generation to a ternary.
This pattern is definitely used elsewhere in code but we can get rid of
all instances here.
It is not an external component, and it makes paths needlessly long.
Ryan seemed amenable to this when we discussed on IRC earlier.
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>
Ryan Houdek