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:
Sample profile loader of AutoFDO tries to replay previous inlining using context sensitive profile. The replay only repeats inlining if the call site block is hot. As a result it punts inlining of small functions, some of which can be beneficial for size, and will still be inlined by CSGCC inliner later. The oscillation between sample profile loader's inlining and regular CGSSC inlining cause unnecessary loss of context-sensitive profile. It doesn't have much impact for inline decision itself, but it negatively affects post-inline profile quality as CGSCC inliner have to scale counts which is not as accurate as the original context sensitive profile, and bad post-inline profile can misguide code layout.
This change added regular Inline Cost calculation for sample profile loader, so we can inline small functions upfront under switch -sample-profile-inline-size. In addition -sample-profile-cold-inline-threshold is added so we can tune the separate size threshold - currently the default is chosen to be the same as regular inliner's cold call-site threshold.
Reviewers: wmi, davidxl
Subscribers: hiraditya, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70750
Wei Mi