Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add profile feedback build to git

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:43:37 -0700

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>

Add a gcc profile feedback build option "profile-all" to the
main Makefile. It simply runs the test suite to generate feedback
data and the recompiles the main executables with that. The basic
structure is similar to the existing gcov code.

gcc is often able to generate better code with profile feedback
data. The training load also doesn't need to be too similar
to the actual load, it still gives benefits.

The test suite run is unfortunately quite long. It would
be good to find a suitable subset that runs faster and still
gives reasonable feedback.

For now the test suite runs single threaded (I had some
trouble running the test suite with -jX)

I tested it with git gc and git blame kernel/sched.c on a Linux
kernel tree. For gc I get about 2.7% improvement in wall clock
time by using the feedback build, for blame about 2.4%.
That's not gigantic, but not shabby either for a very small patch.

If anyone has any favourite CPU intensive git benchmarks feel
free to try them too.

I hope distributors will switch to use a feedback build in their
packages.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
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 Makefile |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e40ac0c..85e2679 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2486,3 +2486,20 @@ cover_db: coverage-report
 
 cover_db_html: cover_db
 	cover -report html -outputdir cover_db_html cover_db
+
+### profile feedback build
+#
+.PHONY: profile-all profile-clean
+
+PROFILE_GEN_CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -fprofile-generate
+PROFILE_USE_CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -fprofile-use -fprofile-correction
+
+profile-clean:
+	$(RM) $(addsuffix *.gcda,$(object_dirs))
+	$(RM) $(addsuffix *.gcno,$(object_dirs))
+
+profile-all: profile-clean
+	$(MAKE) CFLAGS="$(PROFILE_GEN_CFLAGS)" all
+	$(MAKE) CFLAGS="$(PROFILE_GEN_CFLAGS)" -j1 test
+	$(MAKE) CFLAGS="$(PROFILE_USE_CFLAGS)" all
+	
-- 
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