Thank you for the review, Honza.
> On 15 Jan 2026, at 8:03 AM, Jan Hubicka <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> This patch attempts to reduce compile time for locality cloning pass by
>> reducing recursive calls to partition_callchain (). This is achieved by
>> precomputing caller callee information into locality_info. locality_info
>> stores all callees of a node, either directly or via inlined nodes thereby
>> avoiding calls to partition_callchain () for inlined nodes which are already
>> partitioned with their inlined_to nodes. locality_info stores precomputed
>> accumulated incoming edge frequencies per unique caller and avoids repeated
>> computation within partition_callchain (). It also stores preaccumulated and
>> sorted outgoing edge frequencies for unique callees.
>>
>> This patch refines is_entry_node_p () check by calling local_p () instead of
>> just alias check.
>>
>> Approximately 45% compile time improvement is observed for
>> bootstrap-lto-locality config, and takes 2-5% more time on top of
>> bootstrap-lto.
>>
>> This patch also handles appropriate memory management of pass specific data
>> structures.
>>
>> Bootstrapped and tested on aarch64-none-linux-gnu.
>> Ok for mainline?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Prachi
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Prachi Godbole <[email protected]>
>>
>> gcc/ChangeLog:
>>
>> * ipa-locality-cloning.cc (struct locality_callee_info): New struct.
>> (struct locality_info): Ditto.
>> (loc_infos): Ditto.
>> (get_locality_info): New function.
>> (sort_all_callees_default): Ditto.
>> (callee_default_cmp): Ditto.
>> (populate_callee_locality_info): Ditto.
>> (populate_caller_locality_info): Ditto.
>> (create_locality_info): Ditto.
>> (adjust_recursive_callees): Access node_to_clone by reference.
>> (inline_clones): Access node_to_clone and clone_to_node by reference.
>> (clone_node_as_needed): Ditto.
>> (accumulate_incoming_edge_frequency): Remove function.
>> (clone_node_p): New function.
>> (partition_callchain): Refactor the function.
>> (is_entry_node_p): Call local_p ().
>> (locality_determine_ipa_order): Call create_locality_info ().
>> (locality_determine_static_order): Ditto.
>> (locality_partition_and_clone): Update call to partition_callchain ()
>> according prototype.
>> (lc_execute): Allocate and free node_to_ch_info, node_to_clone,
>> clone_to_node.
>>
>
> +/* Data structure to hold precomputed callchain information. */
> +struct locality_info
> +{
> + cgraph_node *node;
> +
> + /* Consolidated callees, including callees of inlined nodes. */
> + vec<locality_callee_info *> all_callees;
> +
> + /* Accumulated caller->node edge frequencies for unique callers. */
> + hash_map<loc_map_hash, sreal> caller_freq;
> + /* Accumulated node->callee edge frequencies for unique callees. */
> + hash_map<loc_map_hash, locality_callee_info> callee_info;
> +
> + locality_info ()
> + {
> + all_callees.create (1);
> + }
> + ~locality_info ()
> + {
> + all_callees.release ();
> + }
> Wouldn't auto_vec do the job here?
>
I tried with auto_vec but for bigger vectors it sometimes results in memory
corruption so went with explicit allocation deallocation.
> Otherwise the patch looks OK.
> Honza