23 January 2018

Sven Verdoolaege presented the Extending Pluto-style Polyhedral Scheduling with Consecutivity paper at IMPACT 2018.

Abstract:

The Pluto scheduler is a successful polyhedral scheduler 
that is used in one form or another in several research and 
production compilers. The core scheduler is focused on 
parallelism and temporal locality and does not directly 
target spatial locality. 
Such spatial locality is known to bring performance benefits and 
has been considered in various forms outside and inside 
polyhedral compilation. 
For example, the Pluto compiler has some support for 
spatial locality, but it is limited to a post-processing 
step involving only loop interchange. 
Consecutivity is a special case of spatial locality 
that aims for stride-1 accesses, which can be useful for 
constructing burst accesses and for vectorization. 
Stride-1 accesses have been targeted by an approach 
based on one-shot scheduling, but it is fairly 
approximative and not directly transferable to 
a Pluto-style scheduler. 
This paper describes an approach for consecutivity 
that is integrated in a Pluto-style polyhedral scheduler, 
as implemented in isl. 
Both intra-statement and inter-statement consecutivity 
is considered, taking into account multiple references 
per statement and the integration into a component based 
incremental scheduler.