In the current BB placement algorithm, a loop chain always contains all loop blocks. This has a drawback that cold blocks in the loop may be inserted on a hot function path, hence increasing branch cost and also reducing icache locality.
Consider a simple example shown below:
A
|
B⇆C
|
D
When B->C is quite cold, the best BB-layout should be A,B,D,C. But the current implementation produces A,C,B,D.
This patch filters those cold blocks off from the loop chain by comparing the ratio:
LoopBBFreq / LoopFreq
to 20%: if it is less than 20%, we don't include this BB to the loop chain. Here LoopFreq is the frequency of the loop when we reduce the loop into a single node. In general we have more cold blocks when the loop has few iterations. And vice versa.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11662
llvm-svn: 251833
Cong Hou