Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Boris Baylin

Krishna Subramanian

Partha P Tirumalai

Apparatus and methods are disclosed for performing time-reversed scheduling of a data dependency graph representing a target program instruction loop in an optimizing compiler. The instruction scheduling function is the modulo scheduling function of an optimizing compiler and it is noted that the time-reverse transforms preserve all modulo constraints. Most modern microprocessors have the ability to issue multiple instructions in one clock cycle and/or possess multiple pipelined functional units and typically contain multi-level memory devices such as on-chip cache, off-chip cache as well as main memory. For such microprocessors this invention can, where applicable, accelerate the process of modulo-scheduling loops in the target program code. The invention consists of a technique to transform the data dependency graph of the target program instruction loop in order to produce an improved schedule of the loop instructions.

Method and apparatus for time-reversed instruction scheduling with

Apparatus and methods are disclosed for scheduling target program instructions during the code optimization pass of an optimizing compiler. Most modern microprocessors have the ability to issue multiple instructions in one clock cycle and/or possess multiple pipelined functional units. They also have the ability to add two values to form the address within memory load and store instructions. In such microprocessors this invention can, where applicable, accelerate the execution of modulo-scheduled loops. The invention consists of a technique to achieve this speed up by systematically reducing the number of certain overhead instructions in modulo scheduled loops. The technique involves identifying reducible overhead instructions, scheduling the balance of the instructions with normal modulo scheduling procedures and then judiciously inserting no more than three copies of the reducible instructions into the schedule.

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