Measuring the effectiveness of automatic parallelization in SUIF
Byoungro So, Sungdo Moon, Mary W. Hall · 1998
This paper presents both an experiment and a system for inserting run-time dependence and privatization testing. The goal of the experiment is to measure empirically the remaining opportunities for exploiting loop-level parallelism that are missed by state-of-theart parallelizing compiler technology. We perform run-time testing of data accessed within all candidate loops not parallelized by the compiler to identify which of these loops could safely execute in parallel for the given program input. This system extends the Lazy Privatizing Doall (LPD) test to simultaneously instrument multiple loops in a nest. Using the results of interprocedural array dataflow analysis, we avoid unnecessary instrumentation of arrays with compile-time provable dependences or loops nested inside outer parallelized loops. We have implemented the system in the Stanford SUIF compiler and have measured programs in three benchmark suites. 1 Introduction Parallelizing compilers are becoming increasingly success...