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. Reviewed-by: Sergey Fedorov <serge.fedorov@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org> Message-Id: <1465412133-3029-15-git-send-email-cota@braap.org> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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55 lines
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/*
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* internal execution defines for qemu
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*
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* Copyright (c) 2003 Fabrice Bellard
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*
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* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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* version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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*
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* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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* Lesser General Public License for more details.
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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* License along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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*/
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#ifndef EXEC_TB_HASH
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#define EXEC_TB_HASH
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#include "exec/tb-hash-xx.h"
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/* Only the bottom TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS of the jump cache hash bits vary for
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addresses on the same page. The top bits are the same. This allows
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TLB invalidation to quickly clear a subset of the hash table. */
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#define TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS (TB_JMP_CACHE_BITS / 2)
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#define TB_JMP_PAGE_SIZE (1 << TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS)
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#define TB_JMP_ADDR_MASK (TB_JMP_PAGE_SIZE - 1)
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#define TB_JMP_PAGE_MASK (TB_JMP_CACHE_SIZE - TB_JMP_PAGE_SIZE)
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static inline unsigned int tb_jmp_cache_hash_page(target_ulong pc)
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{
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target_ulong tmp;
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tmp = pc ^ (pc >> (TARGET_PAGE_BITS - TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS));
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return (tmp >> (TARGET_PAGE_BITS - TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS)) & TB_JMP_PAGE_MASK;
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}
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static inline unsigned int tb_jmp_cache_hash_func(target_ulong pc)
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{
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target_ulong tmp;
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tmp = pc ^ (pc >> (TARGET_PAGE_BITS - TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS));
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return (((tmp >> (TARGET_PAGE_BITS - TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS)) & TB_JMP_PAGE_MASK)
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| (tmp & TB_JMP_ADDR_MASK));
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}
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static inline
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uint32_t tb_hash_func(tb_page_addr_t phys_pc, target_ulong pc, uint32_t flags)
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{
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return tb_hash_func5(phys_pc, pc, flags);
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}
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#endif
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