This broke Chromium's PGO build, it seems because hot-cold-splitting got turned
on unintentionally. See comment on the code review for repro etc.
> This patch adds -f[no-]split-cold-code CC1 options to clang. This allows
> the splitting pass to be toggled on/off. The current method of passing
> `-mllvm -hot-cold-split=true` to clang isn't ideal as it may not compose
> correctly (say, with `-O0` or `-Oz`).
>
> To implement the -fsplit-cold-code option, an attribute is applied to
> functions to indicate that they may be considered for splitting. This
> removes some complexity from the old/new PM pipeline builders, and
> behaves as expected when LTO is enabled.
>
> Co-authored by: Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@compnerd.org>
> Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57265
> Reviewed By: Aditya Kumar, Vedant Kumar
> Reviewers: Teresa Johnson, Aditya Kumar, Fedor Sergeev, Philip Pfaffe, Vedant Kumar
This reverts commit 273c299d5d.
This patch adds -f[no-]split-cold-code CC1 options to clang. This allows
the splitting pass to be toggled on/off. The current method of passing
`-mllvm -hot-cold-split=true` to clang isn't ideal as it may not compose
correctly (say, with `-O0` or `-Oz`).
To implement the -fsplit-cold-code option, an attribute is applied to
functions to indicate that they may be considered for splitting. This
removes some complexity from the old/new PM pipeline builders, and
behaves as expected when LTO is enabled.
Co-authored by: Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@compnerd.org>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57265
Reviewed By: Aditya Kumar, Vedant Kumar
Reviewers: Teresa Johnson, Aditya Kumar, Fedor Sergeev, Philip Pfaffe, Vedant Kumar
With or without PGO data applied, splitting early in the pipeline
(either before the inliner or shortly after it) regresses performance
across SPEC variants. The cause appears to be that splitting hides
context for subsequent optimizations.
Schedule splitting late again, in effect reversing r352080, which
scheduled the splitting pass early for code size benefits (documented in
https://reviews.llvm.org/D57082).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D58258
llvm-svn: 354158
Performing splitting early has several advantages:
- Inhibiting inlining of cold code early improves code size. Compared
to scheduling splitting at the end of the pipeline, this cuts code
size growth in half within the iOS shared cache (0.69% to 0.34%).
- Inhibiting inlining of cold code improves compile time. There's no
need to inline split cold functions, or to inline as much *within*
those split functions as they are marked `minsize`.
- During LTO, extra work is only done in the pre-link step. Less code
must be inlined during cross-module inlining.
An additional motivation here is that the most common cold regions
identified by the static/conservative splitting heuristic can (a) be
found before inlining and (b) do not grow after inlining. E.g.
__assert_fail, os_log_error.
The disadvantages are:
- Some opportunities for splitting out cold code may be missed. This
gap can potentially be narrowed by adding a worklist algorithm to the
splitting pass.
- Some opportunities to reduce code size may be lost (e.g. store
sinking, when one side of the CFG diamond is split). This does not
outweigh the code size benefits of splitting earlier.
On net, splitting early in the pipeline has substantial code size
benefits, and no major effects on memory locality or performance. We
measured memory locality using ktrace data, and consistently found that
10% fewer pages were needed to capture 95% of text page faults in key
iOS benchmarks. We measured performance on frequency-stabilized iOS
devices using LNT+externals.
This reverses course on the decision made to schedule splitting late in
r344869 (D53437).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57082
llvm-svn: 352080
Hans Wennborg