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
Previously, subprograms contained a metadata reference to the function they
described. Because most clients need to get or set a subprogram for a given
function rather than the other way around, this created unneeded inefficiency.
For example, many passes needed to call the function llvm::makeSubprogramMap()
to build a mapping from functions to subprograms, and the IR linker needed to
fix up function references in a way that caused quadratic complexity in the IR
linking phase of LTO.
This change reverses the direction of the edge by storing the subprogram as
function-level metadata and removing DISubprogram's function field.
Since this is an IR change, a bitcode upgrade has been provided.
Fixes PR23367. An upgrade script for textual IR for out-of-tree clients is
attached to the PR.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14265
llvm-svn: 252219
Diego Novillo