> On Mon, 2020-01-06 at 15:08 +0100, Martin Liška wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > As Honza noticed in the PR, we are quite strict about TOP N
> > counter invalidation due to multiple values that can't
> > fit in a counter. We due it in order to have a reproducible
> > builds. I guess we should do a compromise in between reproducibility
> > and possible speed up. That's why I'm suggesting to invalidate
> > a TOP N counter only if param_profile_topn_invalid_threshold percent
> > of profile are missing.
> > 
> > Patch can bootstrap on x86_64-linux-gnu and survives regression tests.
> > 
> > Ready to be installed?
> > Thanks,
> > Martin
> > 
> > gcc/ChangeLog:
> > 
> > 2020-01-06  Martin Liska  <mli...@suse.cz>
> > 
> >     PR tree-optimization/92924
> >     * params.opt (param_profile_topn_invalid_threshold):
> >     New parameter.
> >     * profile.c (sort_hist_values): Mark TOP N counter
> >     invalid only if significant amount of samples
> >     is missing.
> > 
> > gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog:
> > 
> > 2020-01-06  Martin Liska  <mli...@suse.cz>
> > 
> >     PR tree-optimization/92924
> >     * gcc.dg/tree-prof/pr92924-2.c: New test.
> >     * gcc.dg/tree-prof/pr92924.c: New test.
> > 
> > libgcc/ChangeLog:
> > 
> > 2020-01-06  Martin Liska  <mli...@suse.cz>
> > 
> >     PR tree-optimization/92924
> >     * libgcov-merge.c (merge_topn_values_set): Replace
> >     value with lowest count.
> OK
Actually I am not so sure about this patch - how do we ensure
reproducibility in this case?

Honza

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