Codegen: MachineBlockPlacement Improve probability layout.

The following pattern was being layed out poorly:

              A
             / \
            B   C
           / \ / \
          D   E   ? (Doesn't matter)

Where A->B is far more likely than A->C, and prob(B->D) = prob(B->E)

The current algorithm gives:
A,B,C,E (D goes on worklist)

It does this even if C has a frequency count of 0. This patch
adjusts the layout calculation so that if freq(B->E) >> freq(C->E)
then we go ahead and layout E rather than C. Fallthrough half the time
is better than fallthrough never, or fallthrough very rarely. The
resulting layout is:

A,B,E, (C and D are in a worklist)

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@277187 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

lib/CodeGen/MachineBlockPlacement.cpp

@@ -631,18 +631,46 @@ bool MachineBlockPlacement::hasBetterLayoutPredecessor(
   // BB->Succ. This is equivalent to looking the CFG backward with backward
   // edge: Prob(Succ->BB) needs to >= HotProb in order to be selected (without
   // profile data).
-
+  // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  // Case 3: forked diamond
+  //       S
+  //      / \
+  //     /   \
+  //   BB    Pred
+  //   | \   / |
+  //   |  \ /  |
+  //   |   X   |
+  //   |  / \  |
+  //   | /   \ |
+  //   S1     S2
+  //
+  // The current block is BB and edge BB->S1 is now being evaluated.
+  // As above S->BB was already selected because
+  // prob(S->BB) > prob(S->Pred). Assume that prob(BB->S1) >= prob(BB->S2).
+  //
+  // topo-order:
+  //
+  //     S-------|                     ---S
+  //     |       |                     |  |
+  //  ---BB      |                     |  BB
+  //  |          |                     |  |
+  //  |  Pred----|                     |  S1----
+  //  |  |                             |       |
+  //  --(S1 or S2)                     ---Pred--
+  //
+  // topo-cost = freq(S->Pred) + freq(BB->S1) + freq(BB->S2)
+  //    + min(freq(Pred->S1), freq(Pred->S2))
+  // Non-topo-order cost:
+  // In the worst case, S2 will not get laid out after Pred.
+  // non-topo-cost = 2 * freq(S->Pred) + freq(BB->S2).
+  // To be conservative, we can assume that min(freq(Pred->S1), freq(Pred->S2))
+  // is 0. Then the non topo layout is better when
+  // freq(S->Pred) < freq(BB->S1).
+  // This is exactly what is checked below.
+  // Note there are other shapes that apply (Pred may not be a single block,
+  // but they all fit this general pattern.)
   BranchProbability HotProb = getLayoutSuccessorProbThreshold(BB);
 
-  // Forward checking. For case 2, SuccProb will be 1.
-  if (SuccProb < HotProb) {
-    DEBUG(dbgs() << "    Not a candidate: " << getBlockName(Succ) << " "
-                 << "Respecting topological ordering because "
-                 << "probability is less than prob treshold: "
-                 << SuccProb << "\n");
-    return true;
-  }
-
   // Make sure that a hot successor doesn't have a globally more
   // important predecessor.
   BlockFrequency CandidateEdgeFreq = MBFI->getBlockFreq(BB) * RealSuccProb;
@@ -653,11 +681,11 @@ bool MachineBlockPlacement::hasBetterLayoutPredecessor(
         (BlockFilter && !BlockFilter->count(Pred)) ||
         BlockToChain[Pred] == &Chain)
       continue;
-    // Do backward checking. For case 1, it is actually redundant check. For
+    // Do backward checking.
-    // case 2 above, we need a backward checking to filter out edges that are
+    // For all cases above, we need a backward checking to filter out edges that
-    // not 'strongly' biased. With profile data available, the check is mostly
+    // are not 'strongly' biased. With profile data available, the check is
-    // redundant too (when threshold prob is set at 50%) unless S has more than
+    // mostly redundant for case 2 (when threshold prob is set at 50%) unless S
-    // two successors.
+    // has more than two successors.
     // BB  Pred
     //  \ /
     //  Succ
@@ -666,6 +694,8 @@ bool MachineBlockPlacement::hasBetterLayoutPredecessor(
     //      i.e. freq(BB->Succ) > freq(BB->Succ) * HotProb + freq(Pred->Succ) *
     //      HotProb
     //      i.e. freq((BB->Succ) * (1 - HotProb) > freq(Pred->Succ) * HotProb
+    // Case 1 is covered too, because the first equation reduces to:
+    // prob(BB->Succ) > HotProb. (freq(Succ) = freq(BB) for a triangle)
     BlockFrequency PredEdgeFreq =
         MBFI->getBlockFreq(Pred) * MBPI->getEdgeProbability(Pred, Succ);
     if (PredEdgeFreq * HotProb >= CandidateEdgeFreq * HotProb.getCompl()) {

test/CodeGen/X86/block-placement.ll

@@ -1283,6 +1283,174 @@ exit:
   ret void
 }
 
+declare void @a()
+declare void @b()
+
+define void @test_forked_hot_diamond(i32* %a) {
+; Test that a hot-branch with probability > 80% followed by a 50/50 branch
+; will not place the cold predecessor if the probability for the fallthrough
+; remains above 80%
+; CHECK-LABEL: test_forked_hot_diamond
+; CHECK: %entry
+; CHECK: %then
+; CHECK: %fork1
+; CHECK: %else
+; CHECK: %fork2
+; CHECK: %exit
+entry:
+  %gep1 = getelementptr i32, i32* %a, i32 1
+  %val1 = load i32, i32* %gep1
+  %cond1 = icmp ugt i32 %val1, 1
+  br i1 %cond1, label %then, label %else, !prof !5
+
+then:
+  call void @hot_function()
+  %gep2 = getelementptr i32, i32* %a, i32 2
+  %val2 = load i32, i32* %gep2
+  %cond2 = icmp ugt i32 %val2, 2
+  br i1 %cond2, label %fork1, label %fork2, !prof !8
+
+else:
+  call void @cold_function()
+  %gep3 = getelementptr i32, i32* %a, i32 3
+  %val3 = load i32, i32* %gep3
+  %cond3 = icmp ugt i32 %val3, 3
+  br i1 %cond3, label %fork1, label %fork2, !prof !8
+
+fork1:
+  call void @a()
+  br label %exit
+
+fork2:
+  call void @b()
+  br label %exit
+
+exit:
+  call void @hot_function()
+  ret void
+}
+
+define void @test_forked_hot_diamond_gets_cold(i32* %a) {
+; Test that a hot-branch with probability > 80% followed by a 50/50 branch
+; will place the cold predecessor if the probability for the fallthrough
+; falls below 80%
+; The probability for both branches is 85%. For then2 vs else1
+; this results in a compounded probability of 83%.
+; Neither then2->fork1 nor then2->fork2 has a large enough relative
+; probability to break the CFG.
+; Relative probs:
+; then2 -> fork1 vs else1 -> fork1 = 71%
+; then2 -> fork2 vs else2 -> fork2 = 74%
+; CHECK-LABEL: test_forked_hot_diamond_gets_cold
+; CHECK: %entry
+; CHECK: %then1
+; CHECK: %then2
+; CHECK: %else1
+; CHECK: %fork1
+; CHECK: %else2
+; CHECK: %fork2
+; CHECK: %exit
+entry:
+  %gep1 = getelementptr i32, i32* %a, i32 1
+  %val1 = load i32, i32* %gep1
+  %cond1 = icmp ugt i32 %val1, 1
+  br i1 %cond1, label %then1, label %else1, !prof !9
+
+then1:
+  call void @hot_function()
+  %gep2 = getelementptr i32, i32* %a, i32 2
+  %val2 = load i32, i32* %gep2
+  %cond2 = icmp ugt i32 %val2, 2
+  br i1 %cond2, label %then2, label %else2, !prof !9
+
+else1:
+  call void @cold_function()
+  br label %fork1
+
+then2:
+  call void @hot_function()
+  %gep3 = getelementptr i32, i32* %a, i32 3
+  %val3 = load i32, i32* %gep2
+  %cond3 = icmp ugt i32 %val2, 3
+  br i1 %cond3, label %fork1, label %fork2, !prof !8
+
+else2:
+  call void @cold_function()
+  br label %fork2
+
+fork1:
+  call void @a()
+  br label %exit
+
+fork2:
+  call void @b()
+  br label %exit
+
+exit:
+  call void @hot_function()
+  ret void
+}
+
+define void @test_forked_hot_diamond_stays_hot(i32* %a) {
+; Test that a hot-branch with probability > 88.88% (1:8) followed by a 50/50
+; branch will not place the cold predecessor as the probability for the
+; fallthrough stays above 80%
+; (1:8) followed by (1:1) is still (1:4)
+; Here we use 90% probability because two in a row
+; have a 89 % probability vs the original branch.
+; CHECK-LABEL: test_forked_hot_diamond_stays_hot
+; CHECK: %entry
+; CHECK: %then1
+; CHECK: %then2
+; CHECK: %fork1
+; CHECK: %else1
+; CHECK: %else2
+; CHECK: %fork2
+; CHECK: %exit
+entry:
+  %gep1 = getelementptr i32, i32* %a, i32 1
+  %val1 = load i32, i32* %gep1
+  %cond1 = icmp ugt i32 %val1, 1
+  br i1 %cond1, label %then1, label %else1, !prof !10
+
+then1:
+  call void @hot_function()
+  %gep2 = getelementptr i32, i32* %a, i32 2
+  %val2 = load i32, i32* %gep2
+  %cond2 = icmp ugt i32 %val2, 2
+  br i1 %cond2, label %then2, label %else2, !prof !10
+
+else1:
+  call void @cold_function()
+  br label %fork1
+
+then2:
+  call void @hot_function()
+  %gep3 = getelementptr i32, i32* %a, i32 3
+  %val3 = load i32, i32* %gep2
+  %cond3 = icmp ugt i32 %val2, 3
+  br i1 %cond3, label %fork1, label %fork2, !prof !8
+
+else2:
+  call void @cold_function()
+  br label %fork2
+
+fork1:
+  call void @a()
+  br label %exit
+
+fork2:
+  call void @b()
+  br label %exit
+
+exit:
+  call void @hot_function()
+  ret void
+}
+
 !5 = !{!"branch_weights", i32 84, i32 16}
 !6 = !{!"function_entry_count", i32 10}
 !7 = !{!"branch_weights", i32 60, i32 40}
+!8 = !{!"branch_weights", i32 5001, i32 4999}
+!9 = !{!"branch_weights", i32 85, i32 15}
+!10 = !{!"branch_weights", i32 90, i32 10}