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Diffstat (limited to 'llvm/tools/llvm-mca/include/HardwareUnits/LSUnit.h')
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/tools/llvm-mca/include/HardwareUnits/LSUnit.h b/llvm/tools/llvm-mca/include/HardwareUnits/LSUnit.h index b65f59be685..5f78791b2c5 100644 --- a/llvm/tools/llvm-mca/include/HardwareUnits/LSUnit.h +++ b/llvm/tools/llvm-mca/include/HardwareUnits/LSUnit.h @@ -41,31 +41,31 @@ struct InstrDesc; /// This class optimistically assumes that loads don't alias store operations. /// Under this assumption, younger loads are always allowed to pass older /// stores (this would only affects rule 4). -/// Essentially, this LSUnit doesn't attempt to run any sort alias analysis to -/// predict when loads and stores don't alias with eachother. +/// Essentially, this class doesn't perform any sort alias analysis to +/// identify aliasing loads and stores. /// /// To enforce aliasing between loads and stores, flag `AssumeNoAlias` must be /// set to `false` by the constructor of LSUnit. /// -/// In the case of write-combining memory, rule 2. could be relaxed to allow -/// reordering of non-aliasing store operations. At the moment, this is not -/// allowed. -/// To put it in another way, there is no option to specify a different memory -/// type for memory operations (example: write-through, write-combining, etc.). -/// Also, there is no way to weaken the memory model, and this unit currently -/// doesn't support write-combining behavior. +/// Note that this class doesn't know about the existence of different memory +/// types for memory operations (example: write-through, write-combining, etc.). +/// Derived classes are responsible for implementing that extra knowledge, and +/// provide different sets of rules for loads and stores by overriding method +/// `isReady()`. +/// To emulate a write-combining memory type, rule 2. must be relaxed in a +/// derived class to enable the reordering of non-aliasing store operations. /// -/// No assumptions are made on the size of the store buffer. -/// As mentioned before, this class doesn't perform alias analysis. -/// Consequently, LSUnit doesn't know how to identify cases where -/// store-to-load forwarding may occur. +/// No assumptions are made by this class on the size of the store buffer. This +/// class doesn't know how to identify cases where store-to-load forwarding may +/// occur. /// /// LSUnit doesn't attempt to predict whether a load or store hits or misses /// the L1 cache. To be more specific, LSUnit doesn't know anything about -/// the cache hierarchy and memory types. +/// cache hierarchy and memory types. /// It only knows if an instruction "mayLoad" and/or "mayStore". For loads, the /// scheduling model provides an "optimistic" load-to-use latency (which usually /// matches the load-to-use latency for when there is a hit in the L1D). +/// Derived classes may expand this knowledge. /// /// Class MCInstrDesc in LLVM doesn't know about serializing operations, nor /// memory-barrier like instructions. |

