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

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@@ -148,6 +150,16 @@ cl::opt<bool> SkipRetExitBlock(
     "skip-ret-exit-block", cl::init(true),
     cl::desc("Suppress counter promotion if exit blocks contain ret."));
 
+static cl::opt<bool>
+    SampledInstrument("sampled-instr", cl::ZeroOrMore, cl::init(false),
+                      cl::desc("Do PGO instrumentation sampling"));
+
+static cl::opt<unsigned> SampledInstrumentDuration(
+    "sampled-instr-duration",
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xur-llvm wrote:

I don't this is the sampling rate. This is burst sampling. In this burst period, the sample rate is 1. this parameter specifies the during for the burst period.

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