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| author | Matt Davis <Matthew.Davis@sony.com> | 2018-07-31 18:59:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Matt Davis <Matthew.Davis@sony.com> | 2018-07-31 18:59:46 +0000 |
| commit | e8c70bc187845a7ee065e133a78eaad159b73ad7 (patch) | |
| tree | fcab700730ff2e80f454e6ac4057225da8b9c943 /llvm/docs/CommandGuide | |
| parent | 2934b0e0d68dda0ef5ac9d55af96fcabeb87ea40 (diff) | |
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[llvm-mca][docs] Replace "temporary" with "physical registers". NFC.
llvm-svn: 338415
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| -rw-r--r-- | llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.rst b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.rst index 46613f58e8e..e44eb2f8ce9 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.rst @@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ option specifies "``-``", then the output will also be sent to standard output. .. option:: -register-file-size=<size> Specify the size of the register file. When specified, this flag limits how - many temporary registers are available for register renaming purposes. A value - of zero for this flag means "unlimited number of temporary registers". + many physical registers are available for register renaming purposes. A value + of zero for this flag means "unlimited number of physical registers". .. option:: -iterations=<number of iterations> @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ Parallelism). In the dot-product example, there are anti-dependencies introduced by instructions from different iterations. However, those dependencies can be removed at register renaming stage (at the cost of allocating register aliases, -and therefore consuming temporary registers). +and therefore consuming physical registers). Table *Average Wait times* helps diagnose performance issues that are caused by the presence of long latency instructions and potentially long data dependencies @@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ When instructions are executed, the retire control unit flags the instruction as "ready to retire." Instructions are retired in program order. The register file is notified of -the retirement so that it can free the temporary registers that were allocated +the retirement so that it can free the physical registers that were allocated for the instruction during the register renaming stage. Load/Store Unit and Memory Consistency Model |

