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[LoopUnroll] Clamp PartialThreshold for large LoopMicroOpBufferSize (#…
…67657) The znver3/znver4 scheduler models are outliers, specifying very large LoopMicroOpBufferSizes at 512, while typical values for other subtargets are on the order of ~50. Even if this information is micro-architecturally correct (*), this does not mean that we want to runtime unroll all loops to a size that completely fills the loop buffer. Unless this is the single hot loop in the entire application, the massive code size increase will bust the micro-op and instruction caches. Protect against this by clamping to the default PartialThreshold of 150, which is the same as the default full-unroll threshold and half the aggressive full-unroll threshold. Allowing more partial unrolling than full unrolling certainly does not make sense. (*) I strongly doubt that this is actually correct -- I believe this may derive from an incorrect reading of Agner Fog's micro-architecture guide. The number 4096 that was originally used here is the size of the general micro-op cache, not that of a loop buffer. A separate loop buffer is not listed for the Zen microarchitecture. Comparing this to the listing for Skylake, it has a 1536 micro-op buffer, but only a 64 micro-op loopback buffer, with a note that it's rarely fully utilized. Our scheduling model specifies LoopMicroOpBufferSize of 50 in that case.
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