Summary: Now that we have more precise debug info, we should change back to use maximum to get basic block weight.
Reviewers: dnovillo
Subscribers: andreadb, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24788
llvm-svn: 282084
Summary: Callsites in the same basic block should share the same hotness. This patch checks for the hottest callsite in the same basic block, and use the hotness for all callsites in that basic block for early inline decisions. It also fixes the test to add "-S" so theat the "CHECK-NOT" is actually checking the content.
Reviewers: dnovillo
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24734
llvm-svn: 281927
Summary: It does not make sense to set equal weights for all unkown branches as we have static branch prediction available.
Reviewers: dnovillo
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24732
llvm-svn: 281912
Summary: The call target count profile is directly derived from LBR branch->target data. This is more reliable than instruction frequency profiles that could be moved across basic block boundaries. This patches uses call target count profile to annotate call instructions.
Reviewers: davidxl, dnovillo
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24410
llvm-svn: 281911
Summary: Previously we reline on inst-combine to remove inlinable invoke instructions. This causes trouble because a few extra optimizations are schedule early that could introduce too much CFG change (e.g. simplifycfg removes too much control flow). This patch handles invoke instruction in-place during sample profile annotation, so that we do not rely on instcombine to remove those invoke instructions.
Reviewers: davidxl, dnovillo
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24409
llvm-svn: 281870
Summary: The refined propagation algorithm is more accurate and robust.
Reviewers: davidxl, dnovillo
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23224
llvm-svn: 278522
Besides a general consistently benefit, the extra layer of indirection
allows the mechanical part of https://reviews.llvm.org/D23256 that
requires touching every transformation and analysis to be factored out
cleanly.
Thanks to David for the suggestion.
llvm-svn: 278078
This unblocks the new PM part of River's patch in
https://reviews.llvm.org/D22706
Conveniently, this same change was needed for D21921 and so these
changes are just spun out from there.
llvm-svn: 276515
Summary:
For sample-based PGO, using BFI to calculate callsite count is sometime not accurate. This is because with sampling based approach, if a callsite resides in a hot loop deeply nested in a bunch of cold branches, the callsite's BFI frequency would be inaccurately calculated due to lack of samples in the cold branch.
E.g.
if (A1 && A2 && A3 && ..... && A10) {
for (i=0; i < 100000000; i++) {
callsite();
}
}
Assume that A1 to A100 are all 100% taken, and callsite has 1000 samples and thus is considerred hot. Because the loop's trip count is huge, it's normal that all branches outside the loop has no sample at all. As a result, we can only use static branch probability to derive the the frequency of the loop header. Assuming that static heuristic thinks each branch is 50% taken, then the count calculated from BFI will be 1/(2^10) of the actual value.
In order to get more accurate callsite count, we directly annotate the weight on the call instruction, and directly use it when checking callsite hotness.
Note that this mechanism can also be shared by instrumentation based callsite hotness analysis. The side benefit is that it breaks the dependency from Inliner to BFI as call count is embedded in the IR.
Reviewers: davidxl, eraman, dnovillo
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D22118
llvm-svn: 275073
Summary: Handle the case when there is only one incoming/outgoing edge for a visited basic block: use the block weight to adjust edge weight even when the edge has been visited before. This can help reduce inaccuracies introduced by incorrect basic block profile, as shown in the updated unittest.
Reviewers: davidxl, dnovillo
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D22180
llvm-svn: 275072
Summary: As we will move to use uniformed hotness check in inliner, we do not need inline hints in SampleProfile pass any more.
Reviewers: dnovillo, davidxl
Subscribers: eraman, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19287
llvm-svn: 274918
Summary: Set ProfileSummary in SampleProfilerLoader.
Reviewers: davidxl, eraman
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21702
llvm-svn: 273745
Summary: Inliner needs ACT when calling InlineFunction. Instead of nullptr, we need to pass it in from SampleProfileLoader
Reviewers: davidxl
Subscribers: eraman, vsk, danielcdh, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21205
llvm-svn: 273199
Summary: Callee name is not used to identify a callsite now, so do not read it during annotation.
Reviewers: davidxl, dnovillo
Subscribers: dnovillo, danielcdh, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19704
llvm-svn: 268069
Summary:
Instead of using maximum IR weight as the basic block weight, this patch uses the voting algorithm to find the most likely weight for the basic block. This can effectively avoid the cases when some IRs are annotated incorrectly due to code motion of the profiled binary.
This patch also updates propagate.ll unittest to include discriminator in the input file so that it is testing something meaningful.
Reviewers: davidxl, dnovillo
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19301
llvm-svn: 267519
Summary:
This patch refined the instruction weight anootation algorithm:
1. Do not use dbg_value intrinsics for annotation.
2. Annotate cold calls if the call is inlined in profile, but not inlined before preparation. This indicates that the annotation preparation step found no sample for the inlined callsite, thus the call should be very cold.
Reviewers: dnovillo, davidxl
Subscribers: mgrang, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19286
llvm-svn: 266936
llvm::getDISubprogram walks the instructions in a function, looking for one in the scope of the current function, so that it can find the !dbg entry for the subprogram itself.
Now that !dbg is attached to functions, this should not be necessary. This patch changes all uses to just query the subprogram directly on the function.
Ideally this should be NFC, but in reality its possible that a function:
has no !dbg (in which case there's likely a bug somewhere in an opt pass), or
that none of the instructions had a scope referencing the function, so we used to not find the !dbg on the function but now we will
Reviewed by Duncan Exon Smith.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18074
llvm-svn: 263184
Summary: With discriminator, LineLocation can uniquely identify a callsite without the need to specifying callee name. Remove Callee function name from the key, and put it in the value (FunctionSamples).
Reviewers: davidxl, dnovillo
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17827
llvm-svn: 262634
Summary: SampleProfile pass needs to be performed after InstructionCombiningPass, which helps eliminate un-inlinable function calls.
Reviewers: davidxl, dnovillo
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17742
llvm-svn: 262419
DenseMap is the wrong data structure to use for sample records and call
sites. The keys are too large, causing massive core memory growth when
reading profiles.
Before this patch, a 21Mb input profile was causing the compiler to grow
to 3Gb in memory. By switching to std::map, the compiler now grows to
300Mb in memory.
There still are some opportunities for memory footprint reduction. I'll
be looking at those next.
llvm-svn: 255389
This fixes buildbots in systems that std::to_string is not present. It
also tidies the output of the diagnostic to render doubles a bit better
(thanks Ben Kramer for help with string streams and format).
llvm-svn: 254261
This adds two thresholds to the sample profiler to affect inlining
decisions: the concept of global hotness and coldness.
Functions that have accumulated more than a certain fraction of samples at
runtime, are annotated with the InlineHint attribute. Conversely,
functions that accumulate less than a certain fraction of samples, are
annotated with the Cold attribute.
This is very similar to the hints emitted by Clang when using
instrumentation profiles.
Notice that this is a very blunt instrument. A function may have
globally collected a significant fraction of samples, but that does not
necessarily mean that every callsite for that function is hot.
Ideally, we would annotate each callsite with the samples collected at
that callsite. This way, the inliner can incorporate all these weights
into its cost model.
Once the inliner offers this functionality, we can change the hints
emitted here to a more precise per-callsite annotation. For now, this is
providing some measure of speedups with our internal benchmarks. I've
observed speedups of up to 23% (though the geo mean is about 3%). I expect
these numbers to improve as the inliner gets better annotations.
llvm-svn: 254212
Based on testing of internal benchmarks, I'm lowering this threshold to
a value of 0.1%. This means that SamplePGO will respect 99.9% of the
original inline decisions when following a profile.
The performance difference is noticeable in some tests. With the
previous threshold, the speedups over baseline -O2 was about 0.63%. With
the new default, the speedups are around 3% on average.
The point of this threshold is not to do more aggressive inlining. When
an inlined callsite crosses this threshold, SamplePGO will redo the
inline decision so that it can better apply the input profile.
By respecting most original inline decisions, we can apply more of the
input profile because the shape of the code follows the profile more
closely.
In the next series, I'll be looking at adding some inline hints for the
cold callsites and for toplevel functions that are hot/cold as well.
llvm-svn: 254211
When the original binary is executed and sampled, the resulting profile
contains information on the original inline stack. We currently follow
the original inline plan if we notice that the inlined callsite has more
than 0 samples to it.
A better way is to determine whether the callsite is actually worth
inlining. If the callsite accumulates a small fraction of the samples
spent in the parent function, then we don't want to bother inlining it
(as it means that the callsite is actually cold).
This patch introduces a threshold expressed in percentage of samples
in relation to the parent function. If the callsite uses less than N%
of the total samples used by its parent, the original inline decision is
not re-applied.
I've set the threshold to the very arbitrary value of 5%. I'm yet to do
any actual experiments to see what's a good value. I wanted to separate
the basic mechanism from the tuning.
llvm-svn: 254034
The existing coverage tracker counts the number of records that were used
from the input profile. An alternative view of coverage is to check how
many available samples were applied.
This way, if the profile contains several records with few samples, it
doesn't really matter much that they were not applied. The more
interesting records to apply are the ones that contribute many samples.
llvm-svn: 253912
If a function was originally inlined but not actually hot at runtime,
its samples will not be counted inside the parent function. This throws
off the coverage calculation because it expects to find more used
records than it should.
Fixed by ignoring functions that will not be inlined into the parent.
Currently, this is inlined functions with 0 samples. In subsequent
patches, I'll change this to mean "cold" functions.
llvm-svn: 253716
While debugging some sampling coverage problems, I found this useful:
When applying samples from a profile, it helps to also know what line
offset and discriminator the sample belongs to. This makes it easy to
correlate against the input profile.
llvm-svn: 253670
The initial coverage checking code for sample records failed to count
records inside inlined profiles. This change fixes the oversight.
llvm-svn: 251752
This adds the flag -mllvm -sample-profile-check-coverage=N to the
SampleProfile pass. N is the percent of input sample records that the
user expects to apply. If the pass does not use N% (or more) of the
sample records in the input, it emits a warning.
This is useful to detect some forms of stale profiles. If the code has
drifted enough from the original profile, there will be records that do
not match the IR anymore.
This will not detect cases where a sample profile record for line L is
referring to some other instructions that also used to be at line L.
llvm-svn: 251568
The pass was keeping around a lot of per-function data (visited blocks,
edges, dominance, etc) that is just taking up memory for no reason. In
fact, from function to function it could potentially confuse the
propagator since some maps are indexed by line offsets which can be
common between functions.
llvm-svn: 251531
When emitting a remark for a conditional branch annotation, the remark
uses the line location information of the conditional branch in the
message. In some cases, that information is unavailable and the
optimization would segfaul. I'm still not sure whether this is a bug or
WAI, but the optimizer should not die because of this.
llvm-svn: 251420
This adds a couple of optimization remarks to the SamplePGO
transformation. When it decides to inline a hot function (to mimic the
inline stack and repeat useful inline decisions in the original build).
It will also report branch destinations. For instance, given the code
fragment:
6 if (i < 1000)
7 sum -= i;
8 else
9 sum += -i * rand();
If the 'else' branch is taken most of the time, building this code with
-Rpass=sample-profile will produce:
a.cc:9:14: remark: most popular destination for conditional branches at small.cc:6:9 [-Rpass=sample-profile]
sum += -i * rand();
^
llvm-svn: 251330
In some cases (as illustrated in the unittest), lineno can be less than the heade_lineno because the function body are included from some other files. In this case, offset will be negative. This patch makes clang still able to match the profile to IR in this situation.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D13914
llvm-svn: 250873
