This change allows merging and trimming cold context profile in llvm-profgen to solve profile size bloat problem. Currently when the profile's total sample is below threshold(supported by a switch), it will be considered cold and merged into a base context-less profile, which will at least keep the profile quality as good as the baseline(non-cs).
For example, two input profiles:
[main @ foo @ bar]:60
[main @ bar]:50
Under threshold = 100, the two profiles will be merge into one with the base context, get result:
[bar]:110
Added two switches:
`--csprof-cold-thres=<value>`: Specified the total samples threshold for a context profile to be considered cold, with 100 being the default. Any cold context profiles will be merged into context-less base profile by default.
`--csprof-keep-cold`: Force profile generation to keep cold context profiles instead of dropping them. By default, any cold context will not be written to output profile.
Results:
Though not yet evaluating it with the latest CSSPGO, our internal branch shows neutral on performance but significantly reduce the profile size. Detailed evaluation on llvm-profgen with CSSPGO will come later.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94111
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