[X86TTI] Remove the unrolling branch limits

The loop stream detector (LSD) on modern Intel cores, which optimizes the
execution of small loops, has limits on the number of taken branches in
addition to uop-count limits (modern AMD cores have similar limits).
Unfortunately, at the IR level, estimating the number of branches that will be
taken is difficult. For one thing, it strongly depends on later passes (block
placement, etc.). The original implementation took a conservative approach and
limited the maximal BB DFS depth of the loop.  However, fairly-extensive
benchmarking by several of us has revealed that this is the wrong approach. In
fact, there are zero known cases where the branch limit prevents a detrimental
unrolling (but plenty of cases where it does prevent beneficial unrolling).

While we could improve the current branch counting logic by incorporating
branch probabilities, this further complication seems unjustified without a
motivating regression. Instead, unless and until a regression appears, the
branch counting will be removed.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@208255 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

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