Add profile feedback build to git

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 <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 03b4499d52c8f0870479ec265fb23dce111f853d..2d7f6ba122ec93e8006937a94340d01c6816546e 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2492,3 +2492,19 @@ 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 -DNO_NORETURN=1
+PROFILE_USE_CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -fprofile-use -fprofile-correction -DNO_NORETURN=1
+
+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