[llvm] [PGO] Sampled instrumentation in PGO to speed up instrumentation binary (PR #69535)

[David Li via llvm-commits]

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@@ -412,30 +424,91 @@ PreservedAnalyses InstrProfiling::run(Module &M, ModuleAnalysisManager &AM) {
   return PreservedAnalyses::none();
 }
 
+// Perform instrumentation sampling.
+// We transform:
+//   Increment_Instruction;
+// to:
+//   if (__llvm_profile_sampling__ <= SampleDuration) {
+//     Increment_Instruction;
+//   }
+//   __llvm_profile_sampling__ += 1;
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david-xl wrote:

xur@'s sampling scheme is bursty style which seems less likely to introduce bias compared with every N hits scheme (which can lead to shadow. 

For this style of sampling, there might be some optimization that can be done to coalesce sample count update and check.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/69535