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:
AutoFDO's sample profile loader processes function in arbitrary source code order, so if I change the order of two functions in source code, the inline decision can change. This also prevented the use of context-sensitive profile to do specialization while inlining. This commit enforces SCC top-down order for sample profile loader. With this change, we can now do specialization, as illustrated by the added test case:
Say if we have A->B->C and D->B->C call path, we want to inline C into B when root inliner is B, but not when root inliner is A or D, this is not possible without enforcing top-down order. E.g. Once C is inlined into B, A and D can only choose to inline (B->C) as a whole or nothing, but what we want is only inline B into A and D, not its recursive callee C. If we process functions in top-down order, this is no longer a problem, which is what this commit is doing.
This change is guarded with a new switch "-sample-profile-top-down-load" for tuning, and it depends on D70653. Eventually, top-down can be the default order for sample profile loader.
Reviewers: wmi, davidxl
Subscribers: hiraditya, llvm-commits, tejohnson
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70655
Wei Mi