[PATCH] decide edge's hotness when there is profile info

[Dehao Chen]

For my test case, the entire inline instance is optimized away, so
there is no info about it in the profile. I can do some fixup in the
rebuild_cgraph_edge though.

Dehao

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Xinliang David Li <davidxl@google.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to update the callee node summary after profile
> annotate (using information from inline instances which are not
> inlined in early inline)?
>
> David
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Dehao Chen <dehao@google.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz> wrote:
>>>> Not for instrumented FDO (not as I know of). But for AutoFDO, this
>>>> could be a potential risk because some callee is marked unlikely
>>>> executed simply because they are inlined and eliminated in the O2
>>>> binary. But in ipa-inline it will not get inlined because the edge is
>>>> not hot from cgraph_maybe_hot_edge_p (because callee is
>>>> UNLIKELY_EXECUTED), while the edge->count is actually hot.
>>>
>>> Can't you prevent setting calle to UNLIKELY_EXECUTED in these cases instead?
>>> It seems that having profile set incorrectly will lead to other problems later, too.
>>> We discussed similar problem with Teresa about the missing profiles for comdat,
>>> basically one should detect these cases as profile being lost and go with guessed
>>> profile.  (I believe patch for that was posted, too, and so far it seems best approach
>>> to this issue)
>>
>> The current AutoFDO implementation will take all functions that do not
>> have have profile as normally executed, thus use guessed profile for
>> it. This is like using profile for truly hot functions, and using O2
>> for other functions. This works fine. However, it leads to larger code
>> size (approximately 10%~20% larger than FDO).
>>
>> I'd like to introduce another mode for users who care about both
>> performance and code size, and can be sure that profile is
>> representative. In this mode, we will mark all functions without
>> sample as "unlikely executed". However, because AutoFDO use debug info
>> (of optimized code) to represent profile, it's possible that some hot
>> functions (say foo) are inlined and fully eliminated into another hot
>> function (say bar). So in the profile, bar is cold, and because the
>> profile for foo::bar is eliminated, bar will not be inlined into foo
>> before the profile annotation. However, after profile annotate, we can
>> infer from the bb count that foo->bar is hot, thus it should be
>> inlined in ipa-inline phase. However, because bar itself is marked
>> UNLIKELY_EXECUTED, it will not be inlined.
>>
>> One possible workaround would be that during rebuild_cgraph_edges, if
>> we find an edge's callee is unlikely executed, add the edge count to
>> the callee's count and recalculate callee's frequency.
>>
>> Dehao
>>
>>>
>>> Honza