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Duncan P. N. Exon Smith
9a11d668f9 Reapply "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl"
This reverts commit r206707, reapplying r206704.  The preceding commit
to CalcSpillWeights should have sorted out the failing buildbots.

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2014-04-21 17:57:07 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith
f44eda4764 Revert "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl"
This reverts commit r206704, as expected.

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2014-04-19 22:46:00 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith
f465370a49 Reapply "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl"
This reverts commit r206677, reapplying my BlockFrequencyInfo rewrite.

I've done a careful audit, added some asserts, and fixed a couple of
bugs (unfortunately, they were in unlikely code paths).  There's a small
chance that this will appease the failing bots [1][2].  (If so, great!)

If not, I have a follow-up commit ready that will temporarily add
-debug-only=block-freq to the two failing tests, allowing me to compare
the code path between what the failing bots and what my machines (and
the rest of the bots) are doing.  Once I've triggered those builds, I'll
revert both commits so the bots go green again.

[1]: http://bb.pgr.jp/builders/ninja-x64-msvc-RA-centos6/builds/1816
[2]: http://llvm-amd64.freebsd.your.org/b/builders/clang-i386-freebsd/builds/18445

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2014-04-19 22:34:26 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith
2033057de8 Revert "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl" (#2)
This reverts commit r206666, as planned.

Still stumped on why the bots are failing.  Sanitizer bots haven't
turned anything up.  If anyone can help me debug either of the failures
(referenced in r206666) I'll owe them a beer.  (In the meantime, I'll be
auditing my patch for undefined behaviour.)

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2014-04-19 00:42:46 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith
036e26bc29 Reapply "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl" (#2)
This reverts commit r206628, reapplying r206622 (and r206626).

Two tests are failing only on buildbots [1][2]: i.e., I can't reproduce
on Darwin, and Chandler can't reproduce on Linux.  Asan and valgrind
don't tell us anything, but we're hoping the msan bot will catch it.

So, I'm applying this again to get more feedback from the bots.  I'll
leave it in long enough to trigger builds in at least the sanitizer
buildbots (it was failing for reasons unrelated to my commit last time
it was in), and hopefully a few others.... and then I expect to revert a
third time.

[1]: http://bb.pgr.jp/builders/ninja-x64-msvc-RA-centos6/builds/1816
[2]: http://llvm-amd64.freebsd.your.org/b/builders/clang-i386-freebsd/builds/18445

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2014-04-18 22:30:03 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith
ebb5d29473 Revert "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl" (#2)
This reverts commit r206622 and the MSVC fixup in r206626.

Apparently the remotely failing tests are still failing, despite my
attempt to fix the nondeterminism in r206621.

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2014-04-18 17:56:08 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith
54850bedf2 Reapply "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl"
This reverts commit r206556, effectively reapplying commit r206548 and
its fixups in r206549 and r206550.

In an intervening commit I've added target triples to the tests that
were failing remotely [1] (but passing locally).  I'm hoping the mystery
is solved?  I'll revert this again if the tests are still failing
remotely.

[1]: http://bb.pgr.jp/builders/ninja-x64-msvc-RA-centos6/builds/1816

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2014-04-18 17:22:25 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith
c7a3b95c0f Revert "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl"
This reverts commits r206548, r206549 and r206549.

There are some unit tests failing that aren't failing locally [1], so
reverting until I have time to investigate.

[1]: http://bb.pgr.jp/builders/ninja-x64-msvc-RA-centos6/builds/1816

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2014-04-18 02:17:43 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith
cc1e1707b8 blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl
Rewrite the shared implementation of BlockFrequencyInfo and
MachineBlockFrequencyInfo entirely.

The old implementation had a fundamental flaw:  precision losses from
nested loops (or very wide branches) compounded past loop exits (and
convergence points).

The @nested_loops testcase at the end of
test/Analysis/BlockFrequencyAnalysis/basic.ll is motivating.  This
function has three nested loops, with branch weights in the loop headers
of 1:4000 (exit:continue).  The old analysis gives non-sensical results:

    Printing analysis 'Block Frequency Analysis' for function 'nested_loops':
    ---- Block Freqs ----
     entry = 1.0
     for.cond1.preheader = 1.00103
     for.cond4.preheader = 5.5222
     for.body6 = 18095.19995
     for.inc8 = 4.52264
     for.inc11 = 0.00109
     for.end13 = 0.0

The new analysis gives correct results:

    Printing analysis 'Block Frequency Analysis' for function 'nested_loops':
    block-frequency-info: nested_loops
     - entry: float = 1.0, int = 8
     - for.cond1.preheader: float = 4001.0, int = 32007
     - for.cond4.preheader: float = 16008001.0, int = 128064007
     - for.body6: float = 64048012001.0, int = 512384096007
     - for.inc8: float = 16008001.0, int = 128064007
     - for.inc11: float = 4001.0, int = 32007
     - for.end13: float = 1.0, int = 8

Most importantly, the frequency leaving each loop matches the frequency
entering it.

The new algorithm leverages BlockMass and PositiveFloat to maintain
precision, separates "probability mass distribution" from "loop
scaling", and uses dithering to eliminate probability mass loss.  I have
unit tests for these types out of tree, but it was decided in the review
to make the classes private to BlockFrequencyInfoImpl, and try to shrink
them (or remove them entirely) in follow-up commits.

The new algorithm should generally have a complexity advantage over the
old.  The previous algorithm was quadratic in the worst case.  The new
algorithm is still worst-case quadratic in the presence of irreducible
control flow, but it's linear without it.

The key difference between the old algorithm and the new is that control
flow within a loop is evaluated separately from control flow outside,
limiting propagation of precision problems and allowing loop scale to be
calculated independently of mass distribution.  Loops are visited
bottom-up, their loop scales are calculated, and they are replaced by
pseudo-nodes.  Mass is then distributed through the function, which is
now a DAG.  Finally, loops are revisited top-down to multiply through
the loop scales and the masses distributed to pseudo nodes.

There are some remaining flaws.

  - Irreducible control flow isn't modelled correctly.  LoopInfo and
    MachineLoopInfo ignore irreducible edges, so this algorithm will
    fail to scale accordingly.  There's a note in the class
    documentation about how to get closer.  See also the comments in
    test/Analysis/BlockFrequencyInfo/irreducible.ll.

  - Loop scale is limited to 4096 per loop (2^12) to avoid exhausting
    the 64-bit integer precision used downstream.

  - The "bias" calculation proposed on llvmdev is *not* incorporated
    here.  This will be added in a follow-up commit, once comments from
    this review have been handled.

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2014-04-18 01:57:45 +00:00