[llvm-dev] How to get started with VLIW scheduler?

[jeniffer lesley via llvm-dev]

Hi,

I am building a toy target to teach at a university but I am not well aware of LLVM's scheduler infrastructure. My target is VLIW, 1 Load, 1 Store and 2 ALUs. ALUs can perform almost all common mathematical operations.

Where do I start building a scheduler for it? I watched a couple of videos from the LLVM dev meeting but what is the current way of building a new scheduler? Is there a .rst page out there which I missed reading?

Thanks.

Jeni.

[Krzysztof Parzyszek via llvm-dev]

The way we do it for Hexagon is that we have our own specialization of the MachineScheduler pass, followed by a packetizer pass.  Actually, we run two schedulers: machine scheduler, and post-RA scheduler, but that doesn’t change much conceptually.  In the scheduler passes we don’t form instruction packets, at least not explicitly.  We do some sort of a simulation of “what if we were forming packets right now” type of thing, maximizing packetization opportunities ahead of time, before the packetization itself, hoping that enough of it will prevail.

 

Finally, near the end of the post-RA passes we do run the DFAPacketizer pass which forms the actual packets (i.e. “bundles” in LLVM terminology).  The DFA packetizer relies on tables that are generated out of your target’s td files describing your processor’s resources (some of which the standard scheduler uses as well).

 

If you’re starting from scratch, I’d get the packetizer working first.

 

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Krzysztof Parzyszek  kpar...@quicinc.com   AI tools development

[jeniffer lesley via llvm-dev]

Thanks. That is useful but I am too immature to even get it kick started. I am a beginner and I would like first understand what files I need to change to build my scheduler. Just a simple scheduler and one step at a time. I am reading Tanya's MS thesis about SMS but I am not sure if SchedInfo is right way now. Moreover, what role TargetSchedule.t play? We need a beginner guide to leverage LLVM's scheduler infra.

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