<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 9:59 PM, Victor Leschuk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vleschuk@accesssoftek.com" target="_blank">vleschuk@accesssoftek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello David!<br>
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I have recently started acquaintance with PGO in LLVM/clang and found<br>
your e-mail thread:<br>
<a href="http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-May/099395.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.llvm.org/<wbr>pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-May/<wbr>099395.html</a> . Here you<br>
posted a nice list of optimizations that use profiling and of those<br>
which could be using but don't. However that thread is about 2 years<br>
old. Could you please kindly let me know if there were any significant<br>
changes in this area since that time?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, there were quite some changes since then. Here are some of the new features:</div><div><br></div><div>* LLVM IR based PGO -- this is designed to maximize program performance. The option to turn it on is -fprofile-generate/-fprofile-use</div><div>* value profiling support in PGO -- currently support indirect call target profiling and memcpy/memset size profiling and optimizations</div><div>* Profile data is made available for inliner to use (enabled only for the new pass manager: -fexperimental-new-pass-manager)</div><div>* Profile aware LICM is available -- implemented via a profile driven code sinking pass </div><div>* Partial inlining is made profile aware; Graham Yu also added support for multiple region function outlining (with PGO)</div><div>* BB layout heuristics are tuned with PGO</div><div>* hotness driven function layout optimization </div><div><br></div><div>There are pending work in the following area:</div><div>* profile aware loop vectorization, etc</div><div>* control heigh reduction optimization (Hiroshi is working on this)</div><div><br></div><div>ThinLTO also works well with PGO.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">><i> What I can tell you is that there are many missing ones (that can benefit
</i>from profile): such as profile aware LICM (patch pending), speculative PRE,
loop unrolling, loop peeling, auto vectorization, inlining, function
splitting, function layout, function outlinling, profile driven size
optimization, induction variable optimization/strength reduction, stringOp
specialization/optimization/inlining, switch peeling/lowering etc. The
biggest profile user today include ralloc, BB layout, ifcvt, shrinkwrapping
etc, but there should be rooms to be improvement there too.</pre><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Thanks in advance!<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
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Victor Leschuk | Software Engineer | Access Softek<br>
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