Use profiled call edges to augment the top-down order. There are cases that the top-down order computed based on the static call graph doesn't reflect real execution order. For example:
1. Incomplete static call graph due to unknown indirect call targets. Adjusting the order by considering indirect call edges from the profile can enable the inlining of indirect call targets by allowing the caller processed before them.
2. Mutual call edges in an SCC. The static processing order computed for an SCC may not reflect the call contexts in the context-sensitive profile, thus may cause potential inlining to be overlooked. The function order in one SCC is being adjusted to a top-down order based on the profile to favor more inlining.
3. Transitive indirect call edges due to inlining. When a callee function is inlined into into a caller function in LTO prelink, every call edge originated from the callee will be transferred to the caller. If any of the transferred edges is indirect, the original profiled indirect edge, even if considered, would not enforce a top-down order from the caller to the potential indirect call target in LTO postlink since the inlined callee is gone from the static call graph.
4. #3 can happen even for direct call targets, due to functions defined in header files. Header functions, when included into source files, are defined multiple times but only one definition survives due to ODR. Therefore, the LTO prelink inlining done on those dropped definitions can be useless based on a local file scope. More importantly, the inlinee, once fully inlined to a to-be-dropped inliner, will have no profile to consume when its outlined version is compiled. This can lead to a profile-less prelink compilation for the outlined version of the inlinee function which may be called from external modules. while this isn't easy to fix, we rely on the postlink AutoFDO pipeline to optimize the inlinee. Since the survived copy of the inliner (defined in headers) can be inlined in its local scope in prelink, it may not exist in the merged IR in postlink, and we'll need the profiled call edges to enforce a top-down order for the rest of the functions.
Considering those cases, a profiled call graph completely independent of the static call graph is constructed based on profile data, where function objects are not even needed to handle case #3 and case 4.
I'm seeing an average 0.4% perf win out of SPEC2017. For certain benchmark such as Xalanbmk and GCC, the win is bigger, above 2%.
The change is an enhancement to https://reviews.llvm.org/D95988.
Reviewed By: wmi, wenlei
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99351
Typically branch_weights are i32, not i64.
This fixes entry_counts_cold.ll under NPM.
Reviewed By: asbirlea
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90539
CallInst::updateProfWeight() creates branch_weights with i64 instead of i32.
To be more consistent everywhere and remove lots of casts from uint64_t
to uint32_t, use i64 for branch_weights.
Reviewed By: davidxl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88609
CallInst::updateProfWeight() creates branch_weights with i64 instead of i32.
To be more consistent everywhere and remove lots of casts from uint64_t
to uint32_t, use i64 for branch_weights.
Reviewed By: davidxl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88609
is enabled.
When -sample-profile-merge-inlinee is enabled, new FunctionSamples may be
created during profile merge without GUIDToFuncNameMap being initialized.
That will occasionally cause compiler crash. The patch fixes it.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D84994
by default.
sample-profile-top-down-load is an internal option which can enable top-down
order of inlining and profile annotation in sample profile load pass. It was
found to be beneficial for better profile annotation.
Recently we found it could also solve some build time issue. Suppose function
A has many callsites in function B. In the last release binary where sample
profile was collected, the outline copy of A is large because there are many
other functions inlined into A. However although all the callsites calling A
in B are inlined, but every inlined body is small (A was inlined into B
before other functions are inlined into A), there is no build time issue in
last release.
In an optimized build using the sample profile collected from last release,
without top-down inlining, we saw a case that A got very large because of
inlining, and then multiple callsites of A got inlined into B, and that led
to a huge B which caused significant build time issue besides profile
annotation issue.
To solve that problem, the patch enables the flag
sample-profile-top-down-load by default. sample-profile-top-down-load can
have better performance when it is enabled together with
sample-profile-merge-inlinee so in this patch we also enable
sample-profile-merge-inlinee by default.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D82919
When sampleFDO is enabled, people may expect they can use
-fno-profile-sample-use to opt-out using sample profile for a certain file.
That could be either for debugging purpose or for performance tuning purpose.
However, when thinlto is enabled, if a function in file A compiled with
-fno-profile-sample-use is imported to another file B compiled with
-fprofile-sample-use, the inlined copy of the function in file B may still
get its profile annotated.
The inconsistency may even introduce profile unused warning because if the
target is not compiled with explicit debug information flag, the function
in file A won't have its debug information enabled (debug information will
be enabled implicitly only when -fprofile-sample-use is used). After it is
imported into file B which is compiled with -fprofile-sample-use, profile
annotation for the outline copy of the function will fail because the
function has no debug information, and that will trigger profile unused
warning.
We add a new attribute use-sample-profile to control whether a function
will use its sample profile no matter for its outline or inline copies.
That will make the behavior of -fno-profile-sample-use consistent.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79959
Summary:
When sample profile loader decides not to inline a previously inlined call-site, we adjust the profile of outlined function simply by scaling up its profile counts by call-site count. This means the context-sensitive profile of that inlined instance will be thrown away. This commit try to keep context-sensitive profile for such cases:
- Instead of scaling outlined function's profile, we now properly merge the FunctionSamples of inlined instance into outlined function, including all recursively inlined profile.
- Instead of adjusting the profile for negative inline decision at the end of the sample profile loader pass, we do the profile merge right after processing each function. This change paired with top-down ordering of annotation/inline-replay (a separate diff) will make sure we recursively merge profile back before the profile is used for annotation and inline replay.
A new switch -sample-profile-merge-inlinee is added to enable the new profile merge for tuning. It should be the default behavior eventually.
Reviewers: wmi, davidxl
Subscribers: hiraditya, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70653
Hongtao Yu