tree 49f4cca51dd481e3debaed80e305115b3bef5a2f
parent 46f8c8ccf19e45b29452001471cabcc2c601e908
author Craig Topper <craig.topper@intel.com> 1550641151 +0000
committer Craig Topper <craig.topper@intel.com> 1550641151 +0000

[X86] Remove FeatureSlowIncDec from Sandy Bridge and later Intel Core CPUs

Summary:
Inc and Dec were at one point slow on Intel CPUs due to their tendency to cause partial flag stalls on P6 derived CPU cores. This is because these instructions are defined to preserve the carry flag. This partial flag stall issue persisted until Sandy Bridge when flag merging was changed to be handled as a data dependency instead of as a stall until retirement. Sandy Bridge and later CPUs rename the C flag separately from OSPAZ so there is no flag merge needed on INC/DEC to preserve the C flag.

Given these improvements I don't know why INC/DEC was ever considered slow on Sandy Bridge. If anything they should have been disabled on the earlier CPUs instead.

Note after this patch, INC/DEC are still considered slow on Silvermont, Goldmont, Knights Landing and our generic "x86-64" CPU.

Reviewers: spatel, RKSimon, chandlerc

Reviewed By: chandlerc

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D58412

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@354436 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8