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
Summary:
This catches malformed mir files which specify alignment as log2 instead of pow2.
See https://reviews.llvm.org/D65945 for reference,
This is patch is part of a series to introduce an Alignment type.
See this thread for context: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-July/133851.html
See this patch for the introduction of the type: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64790
Reviewers: courbet
Subscribers: MatzeB, qcolombet, dschuff, arsenm, sdardis, nemanjai, jvesely, nhaehnle, hiraditya, kbarton, asb, rbar, johnrusso, simoncook, apazos, sabuasal, niosHD, jrtc27, MaskRay, zzheng, edward-jones, atanasyan, rogfer01, MartinMosbeck, brucehoult, the_o, PkmX, jocewei, jsji, Petar.Avramovic, asbirlea, s.egerton, pzheng, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67433
llvm-svn: 371608
This patch makes sure that a debug value that is after the bitcast in
dupRetToEnableTailCallOpts() is also skipped.
The reduced test case is from SPEC-2006 on SystemZ.
Review: Vedant Kumar, Wolfgang Pieb
https://reviews.llvm.org/D57050
llvm-svn: 352462
