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-rw-r--r--include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineTraceMetrics.h23
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineTraceMetrics.h b/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineTraceMetrics.h
index 460730b..eaaa70a 100644
--- a/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineTraceMetrics.h
+++ b/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineTraceMetrics.h
@@ -165,12 +165,25 @@ public:
/// Invalidate height resources when a block below this one has changed.
void invalidateHeight() { InstrHeight = ~0u; HasValidInstrHeights = false; }
- /// Determine if this block belongs to the same trace as TBI and comes
- /// before it in the trace.
+ /// Assuming that this is a dominator of TBI, determine if it contains
+ /// useful instruction depths. A dominating block can be above the current
+ /// trace head, and any dependencies from such a far away dominator are not
+ /// expected to affect the critical path.
+ ///
/// Also returns true when TBI == this.
- bool isEarlierInSameTrace(const TraceBlockInfo &TBI) const {
- return hasValidDepth() && TBI.hasValidDepth() &&
- Head == TBI.Head && InstrDepth <= TBI.InstrDepth;
+ bool isUsefulDominator(const TraceBlockInfo &TBI) const {
+ // The trace for TBI may not even be calculated yet.
+ if (!hasValidDepth() || !TBI.hasValidDepth())
+ return false;
+ // Instruction depths are only comparable if the traces share a head.
+ if (Head != TBI.Head)
+ return false;
+ // It is almost always the case that TBI belongs to the same trace as
+ // this block, but rare convoluted cases involving irreducible control
+ // flow, a dominator may share a trace head without actually being on the
+ // same trace as TBI. This is not a big problem as long as it doesn't
+ // increase the instruction depth.
+ return HasValidInstrDepths && InstrDepth <= TBI.InstrDepth;
}
// Data-dependency-related information. Per-instruction depth and height