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authorMartin Liska <mliska@suse.cz>2018-01-23 16:43:59 +0100
committerMartin Liska <marxin@gcc.gnu.org>2018-01-23 15:43:59 +0000
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Remove predictors that are unrealiable.
2018-01-23 Martin Liska <mliska@suse.cz> * predict.def (PRED_INDIR_CALL): Set probability to PROB_EVEN in order to ignore the predictor. (PRED_POLYMORPHIC_CALL): Likewise. (PRED_RECURSIVE_CALL): Likewise. From-SVN: r256988
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diff --git a/gcc/predict.def b/gcc/predict.def
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--- a/gcc/predict.def
+++ b/gcc/predict.def
@@ -118,15 +118,11 @@ DEF_PREDICTOR (PRED_TREE_FPOPCODE, "fp_opcode (on trees)", HITRATE (90), 0)
/* Branch guarding call is probably taken. */
DEF_PREDICTOR (PRED_CALL, "call", HITRATE (67), 0)
-/* PRED_CALL is not very reliable predictor and it turns out to be even
- less reliable for indirect calls and polymorphic calls. For spec2k6
- the predictio nis slightly in the direction of taking the call. */
-DEF_PREDICTOR (PRED_INDIR_CALL, "indirect call", HITRATE (86), 0)
-DEF_PREDICTOR (PRED_POLYMORPHIC_CALL, "polymorphic call", HITRATE (59), 0)
-
-/* Recursive calls are usually not taken or the function will recurse
- indefinitely. */
-DEF_PREDICTOR (PRED_RECURSIVE_CALL, "recursive call", HITRATE (75), 0)
+/* Call predictors are for now ignored, lets leave the predictor
+ to measure its benefit. */
+DEF_PREDICTOR (PRED_INDIR_CALL, "indirect call", PROB_EVEN, 0)
+DEF_PREDICTOR (PRED_POLYMORPHIC_CALL, "polymorphic call", PROB_EVEN, 0)
+DEF_PREDICTOR (PRED_RECURSIVE_CALL, "recursive call", PROB_EVEN, 0)
/* Branch causing function to terminate is probably not taken. */
DEF_PREDICTOR (PRED_TREE_EARLY_RETURN, "early return (on trees)", HITRATE (66),