Since commit 6e3b2bfd6 ("tcg: allocate TB structs before the
corresponding translated code") we are not fully utilizing
code_gen_buffer for translated code, and therefore are
incorrectly reporting the amount of translated code as well as
the average host TB size. Address this by:
- Making the conscious choice of misreporting the total translated code;
doing otherwise would mislead users into thinking "-tb-size" is not
honoured.
- Expanding tb_tree_stats to accurately count the bytes of translated code on
the host, and using this for reporting the average tb host size,
as well as the expansion ratio.
In the future we might want to consider reporting the accurate numbers for
the total translated code, together with a "bookkeeping/overhead" field to
account for the TB structs.
Backports commit f19c6cc6fc356dab7a766b471ec5eb3058f0afc1 from qemu
We don't really free anything in this function anymore; we just remove
the TB from the binary search tree.
Backports commit be1e01171b556807198c84feac7cf4bca0d904c2 from qemu
This is a prerequisite for supporting multiple TCG contexts, since
we will have threads generating code in separate regions of
code_gen_buffer.
For this we need a new field (.size) in struct tb_tc to keep
track of the size of the translated code. This field uses a size_t
to avoid adding a hole to the struct, although really an unsigned
int would have been enough.
The comparison function we use is optimized for the common case:
insertions. Profiling shows that upon booting debian-arm, 98%
of comparisons are between existing tb's (i.e. a->size and b->size
are both !0), which happens during insertions (and removals, but
those are rare). The remaining cases are lookups. From reading the glib
sources we see that the first key is always the lookup key. However,
the code does not assume this to always be the case because this
behaviour is not guaranteed in the glib docs. However, we embed
this knowledge in the code as a branch hint for the compiler.
Note that tb_free does not free space in the code_gen_buffer anymore,
since we cannot easily know whether the tb is the last one inserted
in code_gen_buffer. The next patch in this series renames tb_free
to tb_remove to reflect this.
Performance-wise, lookups in tb_find_pc are the same as before:
O(log n). However, insertions are O(log n) instead of O(1), which
results in a small slowdown when booting debian-arm:
Performance counter stats for 'build/arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm \
-machine type=virt -nographic -smp 1 -m 4096 \
-netdev user,id=unet,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 \
-device virtio-net-device,netdev=unet \
-drive file=img/arm/jessie-arm32.qcow2,id=myblock,index=0,if=none \
-device virtio-blk-device,drive=myblock \
-kernel img/arm/aarch32-current-linux-kernel-only.img \
-append console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/vda1 \
-name arm,debug-threads=on -smp 1' (10 runs):
- Before:
8048.598422 task-clock (msec) # 0.931 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.28% )
16,974 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 0.12% )
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
10,125 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec ( +- 1.23% )
35,144,901,879 cycles # 4.367 GHz ( +- 0.14% )
<not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
65,758,252,643 instructions # 1.87 insns per cycle ( +- 0.33% )
10,871,298,668 branches # 1350.707 M/sec ( +- 0.41% )
192,322,212 branch-misses # 1.77% of all branches ( +- 0.32% )
8.640869419 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.57% )
- After:
8146.242027 task-clock (msec) # 0.923 CPUs utilized ( +- 1.23% )
17,016 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 0.40% )
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
18,769 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 0.45% )
35,660,956,120 cycles # 4.378 GHz ( +- 1.22% )
<not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
65,095,366,607 instructions # 1.83 insns per cycle ( +- 1.73% )
10,803,480,261 branches # 1326.192 M/sec ( +- 1.95% )
195,601,289 branch-misses # 1.81% of all branches ( +- 0.39% )
8.828660235 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.38% )
Backports commit 2ac01d6dafabd4a726254eea98824c798d416ee4 from qemu
Now that we have curr_cflags, we can include CF_USE_ICOUNT
early and then remove it as necessary.
Backports commit 416986d3f97329655e30da7271a2d11c6d707b06 from qemu
Now that all code generation has been converted to check CF_PARALLEL, we can
generate !CF_PARALLEL code without having yet set !parallel_cpus --
and therefore without having to be in the exclusive region during
cpu_exec_step_atomic.
While at it, merge cpu_exec_step into cpu_exec_step_atomic.
Backports commit ac03ee5331612e44beb393df2b578c951d27dc0d from qemu
Thereby decoupling the resulting translated code from the current state
of the system.
The tb->cflags field is not passed to tcg generation functions. So
we add a field to TCGContext, storing there a copy of tb->cflags.
Most architectures have <= 32 registers, which results in a 4-byte hole
in TCGContext. Use this hole for the new field.
Backports commit e82d5a2460b0e176128027651ff9b104e4bdf5cc from qemu
Convert all existing readers of tb->cflags to tb_cflags, so that we
use atomic_read and therefore avoid undefined behaviour in C11.
Note that the remaining setters/getters of the field are protected
by tb_lock, and therefore do not need conversion.
Luckily all readers access the field via 'tb->cflags' (so no foo.cflags,
bar->cflags in the code base), which makes the conversion easily
scriptable:
FILES=$(git grep 'tb->cflags' target include/exec/gen-icount.h \
accel/tcg/translator.c | cut -f1 -d':' | sort | uniq)
perl -pi -e 's/([^.>])tb->cflags/$1tb_cflags(tb)/g' $FILES
perl -pi -e 's/([a-z->.]*)(->|\.)tb->cflags/tb_cflags($1$2tb)/g' $FILES
Then manually fixed the few errors that checkpatch reported.
Compile-tested for all targets.
Backports commit c5a49c63fa26e8825ad101dfe86339ae4c216539 from qemu
We were generating code during tb_invalidate_phys_page_range,
check_watchpoint, cpu_io_recompile, and (seemingly) discarding
the TB, assuming that it would magically be picked up during
the next iteration through the cpu_exec loop.
Instead, record the desired cflags in CPUState so that we request
the proper TB so that there is no more magic.
Backports commit 9b990ee5a3cc6aa38f81266fb0c6ef37a36c45b9 from qemu
This will enable us to decouple code translation from the value
of parallel_cpus at any given time. It will also help us minimize
TB flushes when generating code via EXCP_ATOMIC.
Note that the declaration of parallel_cpus is brought to exec-all.h
to be able to define there the "curr_cflags" inline.
Backports commit 4e2ca83e71b51577b06b1468e836556912bd5b6e from qemu
Having a fixed-size hash table for keeping track of all translation blocks
is suboptimal: some workloads are just too big or too small to get maximum
performance from the hash table. The MRU promotion policy helps improve
performance when the hash table is a little undersized, but it cannot
make up for severely undersized hash tables.
Furthermore, frequent MRU promotions result in writes that are a scalability
bottleneck. For scalability, lookups should only perform reads, not writes.
This is not a big deal for now, but it will become one once MTTCG matures.
The appended fixes these issues by using qht as the implementation of
the TB hash table. This solution is superior to other alternatives considered,
namely:
- master: implementation in QEMU before this patchset
- xxhash: before this patch, i.e. fixed buckets + xxhash hashing + MRU.
- xxhash-rcu: fixed buckets + xxhash + RCU list + MRU.
MRU is implemented here by adding an intermediate struct
that contains the u32 hash and a pointer to the TB; this
allows us, on an MRU promotion, to copy said struct (that is not
at the head), and put this new copy at the head. After a grace
period, the original non-head struct can be eliminated, and
after another grace period, freed.
- qht-fixed-nomru: fixed buckets + xxhash + qht without auto-resize +
no MRU for lookups; MRU for inserts.
The appended solution is the following:
- qht-dyn-nomru: dynamic number of buckets + xxhash + qht w/ auto-resize +
no MRU for lookups; MRU for inserts.
The plots below compare the considered solutions. The Y axis shows the
boot time (in seconds) of a debian jessie image with arm-softmmu; the X axis
sweeps the number of buckets (or initial number of buckets for qht-autoresize).
The plots in PNG format (and with errorbars) can be seen here:
http://imgur.com/a/Awgnq
Each test runs 5 times, and the entire QEMU process is pinned to a
single core for repeatability of results.
Host: Intel Xeon E5-2690
28 ++------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+------------++
A***** + + + master **A*** +
27 ++ * xxhash ##B###++
| A******A****** xxhash-rcu $$C$$$ |
26 C$$ A******A****** qht-fixed-nomru*%%D%%%++
D%%$$ A******A******A*qht-dyn-mru A*E****A
25 ++ %%$$ qht-dyn-nomru &&F&&&++
B#####% |
24 ++ #C$$$$$ ++
| B### $ |
| ## C$$$$$$ |
23 ++ # C$$$$$$ ++
| B###### C$$$$$$ %%%D
22 ++ %B###### C$$$$$$C$$$$$$C$$$$$$C$$$$$$C$$$$$$C
| D%%%%%%B###### @E@@@@@@ %%%D%%%@@@E@@@@@@E
21 E@@@@@@E@@@@@@F&&&@@@E@@@&&&D%%%%%%B######B######B######B######B######B
+ E@@@ F&&& + E@ + F&&& + +
20 ++------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+------------++
14 16 18 20 22 24
log2 number of buckets
Host: Intel i7-4790K
14.5 ++------------+------------+-------------+------------+------------++
A** + + + master **A*** +
14 ++ ** xxhash ##B###++
13.5 ++ ** xxhash-rcu $$C$$$++
| qht-fixed-nomru %%D%%% |
13 ++ A****** qht-dyn-mru @@E@@@++
| A*****A******A****** qht-dyn-nomru &&F&&& |
12.5 C$$ A******A******A*****A****** ***A
12 ++ $$ A*** ++
D%%% $$ |
11.5 ++ %% ++
B### %C$$$$$$ |
11 ++ ## D%%%%% C$$$$$ ++
| # % C$$$$$$ |
10.5 F&&&&&&B######D%%%%% C$$$$$$C$$$$$$C$$$$$$C$$$$$C$$$$$$ $$$C
10 E@@@@@@E@@@@@@B#####B######B######E@@@@@@E@@@%%%D%%%%%D%%%###B######B
+ F&& D%%%%%%B######B######B#####B###@@@D%%% +
9.5 ++------------+------------+-------------+------------+------------++
14 16 18 20 22 24
log2 number of buckets
Note that the original point before this patch series is X=15 for "master";
the little sensitivity to the increased number of buckets is due to the
poor hashing function in master.
xxhash-rcu has significant overhead due to the constant churn of allocating
and deallocating intermediate structs for implementing MRU. An alternative
would be do consider failed lookups as "maybe not there", and then
acquire the external lock (tb_lock in this case) to really confirm that
there was indeed a failed lookup. This, however, would not be enough
to implement dynamic resizing--this is more complex: see
"Resizable, Scalable, Concurrent Hash Tables via Relativistic
Programming" by Triplett, McKenney and Walpole. This solution was
discarded due to the very coarse RCU read critical sections that we have
in MTTCG; resizing requires waiting for readers after every pointer update,
and resizes require many pointer updates, so this would quickly become
prohibitive.
qht-fixed-nomru shows that MRU promotion is advisable for undersized
hash tables.
However, qht-dyn-mru shows that MRU promotion is not important if the
hash table is properly sized: there is virtually no difference in
performance between qht-dyn-nomru and qht-dyn-mru.
Before this patch, we're at X=15 on "xxhash"; after this patch, we're at
X=15 @ qht-dyn-nomru. This patch thus matches the best performance that we
can achieve with optimum sizing of the hash table, while keeping the hash
table scalable for readers.
The improvement we get before and after this patch for booting debian jessie
with arm-softmmu is:
- Intel Xeon E5-2690: 10.5% less time
- Intel i7-4790K: 5.2% less time
We could get this same improvement _for this particular workload_ by
statically increasing the size of the hash table. But this would hurt
workloads that do not need a large hash table. The dynamic (upward)
resizing allows us to start small and enlarge the hash table as needed.
A quick note on downsizing: the table is resized back to 2**15 buckets
on every tb_flush; this makes sense because it is not guaranteed that the
table will reach the same number of TBs later on (e.g. most bootup code is
thrown away after boot); it makes sense to grow the hash table as
more code blocks are translated. This also avoids the complication of
having to build downsizing hysteresis logic into qht.
Backports commit 909eaac9bbc2ed4f3a82ce38e905b87d478a3e00 from qemu
The header is only used by accel/tcg/cputlb.c so we can
move it to the accel/tcg/ folder, too.
Backports commit da1849c1eba50aa372f87c7945d7b230eb2b2fb2 from qemu
move tcg-runtime.c, translate-all.(ch) and translate-common.c into
accel/tcg/ subdirectory and updated related trace-events file.
Backports commit 244f144134d0dd182f1af8654e7f9a79fe770368 and applies
relevant changes made in db432672dc50ed86dda17ac821b7eb07411a90af and
d9bb58e51068dfc48746c6af0179926c8dc05bce from qemu
Rather than have a separate buffer of 10*max_ops entries,
give each opcode 10 entries. The result is actually a bit
smaller and should have slightly more cache locality.
Backports commit 75e8b9b7aa0b95a761b9add7e2f09248b101a392 from qemu
