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Small tweaks to profile parameters

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Eric Botcazou Aug. 2, 2019, 7:50 a.m. UTC
Hi,

some users tried to tweak the profile parameters in order to get more inlining 
and did the tweaking backwards, i.e. they actually got less inlining without 
realizing it.  So the attached patch reworks the description of the 4 profile 
parameters as well as changes a couple of things:
 1. it gracefully handles a hot-bb-count-fraction of 0,
 2. it sets the range of unlikely-bb-count-fraction to (0, 0) like the others.

Tested on x86_64-suse-linux, OK for the mainline?


2019-08-02  Eric Botcazou  <ebotcazou@adacore.com>

	* doc/invoke.texi (hot-bb-count-fraction): Rework description.
	(hot-bb-count-ws-permille): Likewise.
	(hot-bb-frequency-fraction): Likewise.
	(unlikely-bb-count-fraction): Likewise.
	* params.def (hot-bb-count-fraction): Rework description.
	(hot-bb-count-ws-permille): Likewise.
	(hot-bb-frequency-fraction): Likewise.
	(unlikely-bb-count-fraction): Likewise.  Remove min and max values.
	* predict.c (get_hot_bb_threshold): Deal with zero HOT_BB_COUNT_FRACTION.

Comments

Richard Biener Aug. 2, 2019, 8:34 a.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 9:50 AM Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> some users tried to tweak the profile parameters in order to get more inlining
> and did the tweaking backwards, i.e. they actually got less inlining without
> realizing it.  So the attached patch reworks the description of the 4 profile
> parameters as well as changes a couple of things:
>  1. it gracefully handles a hot-bb-count-fraction of 0,
>  2. it sets the range of unlikely-bb-count-fraction to (0, 0) like the others.
>
> Tested on x86_64-suse-linux, OK for the mainline?

OK.

Thanks,
Richard.

>
> 2019-08-02  Eric Botcazou  <ebotcazou@adacore.com>
>
>         * doc/invoke.texi (hot-bb-count-fraction): Rework description.
>         (hot-bb-count-ws-permille): Likewise.
>         (hot-bb-frequency-fraction): Likewise.
>         (unlikely-bb-count-fraction): Likewise.
>         * params.def (hot-bb-count-fraction): Rework description.
>         (hot-bb-count-ws-permille): Likewise.
>         (hot-bb-frequency-fraction): Likewise.
>         (unlikely-bb-count-fraction): Likewise.  Remove min and max values.
>         * predict.c (get_hot_bb_threshold): Deal with zero HOT_BB_COUNT_FRACTION.
>
> --
> Eric Botcazou
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Patch

Index: doc/invoke.texi
===================================================================
--- doc/invoke.texi	(revision 273907)
+++ doc/invoke.texi	(working copy)
@@ -11442,14 +11442,39 @@  for vectorizer. Value -1 means no limit.
 The maximum number of iterations of a loop the brute-force algorithm
 for analysis of the number of iterations of the loop tries to evaluate.
 
+@item hot-bb-count-fraction
+The denominator n of fraction 1/n of the maximal execution count of a
+basic block in the entire program that a basic block needs to at least
+have in order to be considered hot.  The default is 10000, which means
+that a basic block is considered hot if its execution count is greater
+than 1/10000 of the maximal execution count.  0 means that it is never
+considered hot.  Used in non-LTO mode.
+
 @item hot-bb-count-ws-permille
-A basic block profile count is considered hot if it contributes to 
-the given permillage (i.e.@: 0...1000) of the entire profiled execution.
+The number of most executed permilles, ranging from 0 to 1000, of the
+profiled execution of the entire program to which the execution count
+of a basic block must be part of in order to be considered hot.  The
+default is 990, which means that a basic block is considered hot if
+its execution count contributes to the upper 990 permilles, or 99.0%,
+of the profiled execution of the entire program.  0 means that it is
+never considered hot.  Used in LTO mode.
 
 @item hot-bb-frequency-fraction
-Select fraction of the entry block frequency of executions of basic block in
-function given basic block needs to have to be considered hot.
+The denominator n of fraction 1/n of the execution frequency of the
+entry block of a function that a basic block of this function needs
+to at least have in order to be considered hot.  The default is 1000,
+which means that a basic block is considered hot in a function if it
+is executed more frequently than 1/1000 of the frequency of the entry
+block of the function.  0 means that it is never considered hot.
 
+@item unlikely-bb-count-fraction
+The denominator n of fraction 1/n of the number of profiled runs of
+the entire program below which the execution count of a basic block
+must be in order for the basic block to be considered unlikely executed.
+The default is 20, which means that a basic block is considered unlikely
+executed if it is executed in fewer than 1/20, or 5%, of the runs of
+the program.  0 means that it is always considered unlikely executed.
+
 @item max-predicted-iterations
 The maximum number of loop iterations we predict statically.  This is useful
 in cases where a function contains a single loop with known bound and
@@ -12129,11 +12154,6 @@  A threshold on the average loop count considered b
 The number of cycles the swing modulo scheduler considers when checking
 conflicts using DFA.
 
-@item hot-bb-count-fraction
-Select fraction of the maximal count of repetitions of basic block
-in program given basic block needs
-to have to be considered hot (used in non-LTO mode)
-
 @item max-inline-insns-recursive-auto
 The maximum number of instructions non-inline function
 can grow to via recursive inlining.
@@ -12171,10 +12191,6 @@  Maximum number of arrays per scop.
 @item max-vartrack-reverse-op-size
 Max. size of loc list for which reverse ops should be added.
 
-@item unlikely-bb-count-fraction
-The minimum fraction of profile runs a given basic block execution count
-must be not to be considered unlikely.
-
 @item tracer-dynamic-coverage-feedback
 The percentage of function, weighted by execution frequency,
 that must be covered by trace formation.
Index: params.def
===================================================================
--- params.def	(revision 273907)
+++ params.def	(working copy)
@@ -427,23 +427,31 @@  DEFPARAM(PARAM_SMS_LOOP_AVERAGE_COUNT_THRESHOLD,
 
 DEFPARAM(HOT_BB_COUNT_FRACTION,
 	 "hot-bb-count-fraction",
-	 "Select fraction of the maximal count of repetitions of basic block in program given basic "
-	 "block needs to have to be considered hot (used in non-LTO mode).",
+	 "The denominator n of fraction 1/n of the maximal execution count of "
+	 "a basic block in the entire program that a basic block needs to at "
+	 "least have in order to be considered hot (used in non-LTO mode).",
 	 10000, 0, 0)
+
 DEFPARAM(HOT_BB_COUNT_WS_PERMILLE,
 	 "hot-bb-count-ws-permille",
-         "A basic block profile count is considered hot if it contributes to "
-         "the given permillage of the entire profiled execution (used in LTO mode).",
+	 "The number of most executed permilles of the profiled execution of "
+	 "the entire program to which the execution count of a basic block "
+	 "must be part of in order to be considered hot (used in LTO mode).",
 	 990, 0, 1000)
+
 DEFPARAM(HOT_BB_FREQUENCY_FRACTION,
 	 "hot-bb-frequency-fraction",
-	 "Select fraction of the maximal frequency of executions of basic block in function given basic block needs to have to be considered hot.",
+	 "The denominator n of fraction 1/n of the execution frequency of the "
+	 "entry block of a function that a basic block of this function needs "
+	 "to at least have in order to be considered hot.",
 	 1000, 0, 0)
 
 DEFPARAM(UNLIKELY_BB_COUNT_FRACTION,
 	 "unlikely-bb-count-fraction",
-         "The minimum fraction of profile runs a given basic block execution count must be not to be considered unlikely.",
-	 20, 1, 10000)
+	 "The denominator n of fraction 1/n of the number of profiled runs of "
+	 "the entire program below which the execution count of a basic block "
+	 "must be in order for the basic block to be considered unlikely.",
+	 20, 0, 0)
 
 DEFPARAM (PARAM_ALIGN_THRESHOLD,
 	  "align-threshold",
Index: predict.c
===================================================================
--- predict.c	(revision 273983)
+++ predict.c	(working copy)
@@ -132,8 +132,12 @@  get_hot_bb_threshold ()
 {
   if (min_count == -1)
     {
-      gcov_type t = profile_info->sum_max / PARAM_VALUE (HOT_BB_COUNT_FRACTION);
-      set_hot_bb_threshold (t);
+      const int hot_frac = PARAM_VALUE (HOT_BB_COUNT_FRACTION);
+      const gcov_type min_hot_count
+	= hot_frac
+	  ? profile_info->sum_max / hot_frac
+	  : (gcov_type)profile_count::max_count;
+      set_hot_bb_threshold (min_hot_count);
       if (dump_file)
 	fprintf (dump_file, "Setting hotness threshold to %" PRId64 ".\n",
 		 min_count);