[MBP] Add flags to disable the BadCFGConflict check in MachineBlockPlacement.

Some benchmarks have shown that this could lead to a potential
performance benefit, and so adding some flags to try to help measure the
difference.

A possible explanation. In diamond-shaped CFGs (A followed by either
B or C both followed by D), putting B and C both in between A and
D leads to the code being less dense than it could be. Always either
B or C have to be skipped increasing the chance of cache misses etc.
Moving either B or C to after D might be beneficial on average.

In the long run, but we should probably do a better job of analyzing the
basic block and branch probabilities to move the correct one of B or
C to after D. But even if we don't use this in the long run, it is
a good baseline for benchmarking.

Original patch authored by Daniel Jasper with test tweaks and a second
flag added by me.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6969

llvm-svn: 226034

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/MachineBlockPlacement.cpp b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/MachineBlockPlacement.cpp
index aaa7d91..779b84e 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/MachineBlockPlacement.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/MachineBlockPlacement.cpp
@@ -60,6 +60,17 @@ static cl::opt<unsigned> AlignAllBlock("align-all-blocks",
                                                 "blocks in the function."),
                                        cl::init(0), cl::Hidden);
 
+static cl::opt<bool> OnlyHotBadCFGConflictCheck(
+    "only-hot-bad-cfg-conflict-check",
+    cl::desc("Only check that a hot successor doesn't have a hot predecessor."),
+    cl::init(false), cl::Hidden);
+
+static cl::opt<bool> NoBadCFGConflictCheck(
+    "no-bad-cfg-conflict-check",
+    cl::desc("Don't check whether a hot successor has a more important "
+             "predecessor."),
+    cl::init(false), cl::Hidden);
+
 // FIXME: Find a good default for this flag and remove the flag.
 static cl::opt<unsigned>
 ExitBlockBias("block-placement-exit-block-bias",
@@ -374,29 +385,33 @@ MachineBasicBlock *MachineBlockPlacement::selectBestSuccessor(
         continue;
       }
 
-      // Make sure that a hot successor doesn't have a globally more important
-      // predecessor.
-      BlockFrequency CandidateEdgeFreq
-        = MBFI->getBlockFreq(BB) * SuccProb * HotProb.getCompl();
-      bool BadCFGConflict = false;
-      for (MachineBasicBlock::pred_iterator PI = (*SI)->pred_begin(),
-                                            PE = (*SI)->pred_end();
-           PI != PE; ++PI) {
-        if (*PI == *SI || (BlockFilter && !BlockFilter->count(*PI)) ||
-            BlockToChain[*PI] == &Chain)
+      if (!NoBadCFGConflictCheck) {
+        // Make sure that a hot successor doesn't have a globally more
+        // important predecessor.
+        BlockFrequency CandidateEdgeFreq =
+            OnlyHotBadCFGConflictCheck
+                ? MBFI->getBlockFreq(BB) * SuccProb
+                : MBFI->getBlockFreq(BB) * SuccProb * HotProb.getCompl();
+        bool BadCFGConflict = false;
+        for (MachineBasicBlock::pred_iterator PI = (*SI)->pred_begin(),
+                                              PE = (*SI)->pred_end();
+             PI != PE; ++PI) {
+          if (*PI == *SI || (BlockFilter && !BlockFilter->count(*PI)) ||
+              BlockToChain[*PI] == &Chain)
+            continue;
+          BlockFrequency PredEdgeFreq =
+              MBFI->getBlockFreq(*PI) * MBPI->getEdgeProbability(*PI, *SI);
+          if (PredEdgeFreq >= CandidateEdgeFreq) {
+            BadCFGConflict = true;
+            break;
+          }
+        }
+        if (BadCFGConflict) {
+          DEBUG(dbgs() << "    " << getBlockName(*SI) << " -> " << SuccProb
+                       << " (prob) (non-cold CFG conflict)\n");
           continue;
-        BlockFrequency PredEdgeFreq
-          = MBFI->getBlockFreq(*PI) * MBPI->getEdgeProbability(*PI, *SI);
-        if (PredEdgeFreq >= CandidateEdgeFreq) {
-          BadCFGConflict = true;
-          break;
         }
       }
-      if (BadCFGConflict) {
-        DEBUG(dbgs() << "    " << getBlockName(*SI) << " -> " << SuccProb
-                     << " (prob) (non-cold CFG conflict)\n");
-        continue;
-      }
     }
 
     DEBUG(dbgs() << "    " << getBlockName(*SI) << " -> " << SuccProb