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    • Dehao Chen's avatar
      Using branch probability to guide critical edge splitting. · ea62ae98
      Dehao Chen authored
      Summary:
      The original heuristic to break critical edge during machine sink is relatively conservertive: when there is only one instruction sinkable to the critical edge, it is likely that the machine sink pass will not break the critical edge. This leads to many speculative instructions executed at runtime. However, with profile info, we could model the splitting benefits: if the critical edge has 50% taken rate, it would always be beneficial to split the critical edge to avoid the speculated runtime instructions. This patch uses profile to guide critical edge splitting in machine sink pass.
      
      The performance impact on speccpu2006 on Intel sandybridge machines:
      
      spec/2006/fp/C++/444.namd                  25.3  +0.26%
      spec/2006/fp/C++/447.dealII               45.96  -0.10%
      spec/2006/fp/C++/450.soplex               41.97  +1.49%
      spec/2006/fp/C++/453.povray               36.83  -0.96%
      spec/2006/fp/C/433.milc                   23.81  +0.32%
      spec/2006/fp/C/470.lbm                    41.17  +0.34%
      spec/2006/fp/C/482.sphinx3                48.13  +0.69%
      spec/2006/int/C++/471.omnetpp             22.45  +3.25%
      spec/2006/int/C++/473.astar               21.35  -2.06%
      spec/2006/int/C++/483.xalancbmk           36.02  -2.39%
      spec/2006/int/C/400.perlbench              33.7  -0.17%
      spec/2006/int/C/401.bzip2                  22.9  +0.52%
      spec/2006/int/C/403.gcc                   32.42  -0.54%
      spec/2006/int/C/429.mcf                   39.59  +0.19%
      spec/2006/int/C/445.gobmk                 26.98  -0.00%
      spec/2006/int/C/456.hmmer                 24.52  -0.18%
      spec/2006/int/C/458.sjeng                 28.26  +0.02%
      spec/2006/int/C/462.libquantum            55.44  +3.74%
      spec/2006/int/C/464.h264ref               46.67  -0.39%
      
      geometric mean                                   +0.20%
      
      Manually checked 473 and 471 to verify the diff is in the noise range.
      
      Reviewers: rengolin, davidxl
      
      Subscribers: llvm-commits
      
      Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24818
      
      llvm-svn: 284541
      ea62ae98
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