ControlFlowIssues

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Description

The pattern "Control flow issues" describes the case then the CPU core has to jump around in the instruction stream and bad prediction of condition evaluation

Symptoms

  • In-core throughput far away from design limit
  • performance insensitive to data set size


Detection

  • High branch rate
  • High ratio of mispredicted branches

LIKWID performance groups: BRANCH

Possible optimizations and/or fixes

  • Avoid conditions in inner loops


Applicable applications or algorithms or kernels