Current approach doesn't work well in cases when multiple paths are predicted to be "cold". By "cold" paths I mean those containing "unreachable" instruction, call marked with 'cold' attribute and 'unwind' handler of 'invoke' instruction. The issue is that heuristics are applied one by one until the first match and essentially ignores relative hotness/coldness
of other paths.
New approach unifies processing of "cold" paths by assigning predefined absolute weight to each block estimated to be "cold". Then we propagate these weights up/down IR similarly to existing approach. And finally set up edge probabilities based on estimated block weights.
One important difference is how we propagate weight up. Existing approach propagates the same weight to all blocks that are post-dominated by a block with some "known" weight. This is useless at least because it always gives 50\50 distribution which is assumed by default anyway. Worse, it causes the algorithm to skip further heuristics and can miss setting more accurate probability. New algorithm propagates the weight up only to the blocks that dominates and post-dominated by a block with some "known" weight. In other words, those blocks that are either always executed or not executed together.
In addition new approach processes loops in an uniform way as well. Essentially loop exit edges are estimated as "cold" paths relative to back edges and should be considered uniformly with other coldness/hotness markers.
Reviewed By: yrouban
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79485
NPM passes just use the normal versions of these analyses instead.
Also pin any tests with -analyze to legacy PM.
Reviewed By: asbirlea
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87857
The probability of edge coming to unreachable block should be as low as possible.
The change reduces the probability to minimal value greater than zero.
The bug https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32214 show the example when
the probability of edge coming to unreachable block is greater than for edge
coming to out of the loop and it causes incorrect loop rotation.
Please note that with this change the behavior of unreachable heuristic is a bit different
than others. Specifically, before this change the sum of probabilities
coming to unreachable blocks have the same weight for all branches
(it was just split over all edges of this block coming to unreachable blocks).
With this change it might be slightly different but not to much due to probability of
taken branch to unreachable block is really small.
Reviewers: chandlerc, sanjoy, vsk, congh, junbuml, davidxl, dexonsmith
Reviewed By: chandlerc, dexonsmith
Subscribers: reames, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30633
llvm-svn: 303327
Summary:
Calls to @llvm.experimental.deoptimize are expected to "never execute",
so optimize them as such.
Reviewers: chandlerc
Subscribers: junbuml, mcrosier, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19095
llvm-svn: 266654
Evgeniy Brevnov