Two (minor) improvements for stale matching:
- always match entry blocks to each other, even if there is a hash mismatch;
- ignore nops in (loose) hash computation.
I record a small improvement in inference quality on my benchmarks. Tests are not affected
Reviewed By: Amir
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D159488
Fine-tuning hash computation for stale matching:
- introducing a new "loose" basic block hash that allows to match many more blocks than before;
- tweaking params of the inference algorithm that find (slightly) better solutions;
- added more meaningful tests for stale matching.
Tested the changes on several open-source benchmarks (clang, rocksdb, chrome)
and one prod workload using different compiler modes (LTO/PGO etc). There is
always an improvement in the quality of inferred profiles.
(The current implementation is still not optimal but the diff is a step forward;
I am open to further suggestions)
Reviewed By: Amir
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D156278
Use MCInst opcode name instead of opcode value in hashing.
Opcode values are unstable wrt changes to target tablegen definitions,
and we notice that as output mismatches in NFC testing. This makes BOLT YAML
profile tied to a particular LLVM revision which is less portable than
offset-based fdata profile.
Switch to using opcode names which have 1:1 mapping with opcode values for any
given LLVM revision, and are stable wrt modifications to .td files (except of
course modifications to names themselves).
Test Plan:
D150154 is a test commit adding new X86 instruction which shifts opcode values.
With current change, pre-aggregated-perf.test passes in nfc check mode.
Without current change, pre-aggregated-perf.test expectedly fails.
Reviewed By: #bolt, rafauler
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D150005
Extending yaml profile format with block hashes, which are used for stale
profile matching. To avoid duplication of the code, created a new class with a
collection of utilities for computing hashes.
Reviewed By: Amir
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D144306
