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Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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// -*- mode: C++; c-file-style: "cc-mode" -*-
//*************************************************************************
// DESCRIPTION: Verilator: Implementations of simple passes over DfgGraph
//
// Code available from: https://verilator.org
//
//*************************************************************************
//
// Copyright 2003-2022 by Wilson Snyder. This program is free software; you
// can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU
// Lesser General Public License Version 3 or the Perl Artistic License
// Version 2.0.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only OR Artistic-2.0
//
//*************************************************************************
#include "config_build.h"
#include "V3DfgPasses.h"
#include "V3Dfg.h"
#include "V3Global.h"
#include "V3String.h"
#include <algorithm>
VL_DEFINE_DEBUG_FUNCTIONS;
V3DfgCseContext::~V3DfgCseContext() {
V3Stats::addStat("Optimizations, DFG " + m_label + " CSE, expressions eliminated",
m_eliminated);
}
DfgRemoveVarsContext::~DfgRemoveVarsContext() {
V3Stats::addStat("Optimizations, DFG " + m_label + " Remove vars, variables removed",
m_removed);
}
static std::string getPrefix(const std::string& label) {
if (label.empty()) return "";
std::string str = VString::removeWhitespace(label);
std::transform(str.begin(), str.end(), str.begin(), [](unsigned char c) { //
return c == ' ' ? '-' : std::tolower(c);
});
str += "-";
return str;
}
V3DfgOptimizationContext::V3DfgOptimizationContext(const std::string& label)
: m_label{label}
, m_prefix{getPrefix(label)} {}
V3DfgOptimizationContext::~V3DfgOptimizationContext() {
const string prefix = "Optimizations, DFG " + m_label + " ";
V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "General, modules", m_modules);
V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Ast2Dfg, coalesced assignments", m_coalescedAssignments);
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V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Ast2Dfg, input equations", m_inputEquations);
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Ast2Dfg, representable", m_representable);
V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Ast2Dfg, non-representable (dtype)", m_nonRepDType);
V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Ast2Dfg, non-representable (impure)", m_nonRepImpure);
V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Ast2Dfg, non-representable (timing)", m_nonRepTiming);
V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Ast2Dfg, non-representable (lhs)", m_nonRepLhs);
V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Ast2Dfg, non-representable (node)", m_nonRepNode);
V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Ast2Dfg, non-representable (unknown)", m_nonRepUnknown);
V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Ast2Dfg, non-representable (var ref)", m_nonRepVarRef);
V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Ast2Dfg, non-representable (width)", m_nonRepWidth);
V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Dfg2Ast, intermediate variables", m_intermediateVars);
V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Dfg2Ast, replaced variables", m_replacedVars);
V3Stats::addStat(prefix + "Dfg2Ast, result equations", m_resultEquations);
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// Check the stats are consistent
UASSERT(m_inputEquations
== m_representable + m_nonRepDType + m_nonRepImpure + m_nonRepTiming + m_nonRepLhs
+ m_nonRepNode + m_nonRepUnknown + m_nonRepVarRef + m_nonRepWidth,
"Inconsistent statistics");
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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}
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// Common sub-expression elimination
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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void V3DfgPasses::cse(DfgGraph& dfg, V3DfgCseContext& ctx) {
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// Remove common sub-expressions
{
// Used by DfgVertex::hash
const auto userDataInUse = dfg.userDataInUse();
DfgVertex::EqualsCache equalsCache;
std::unordered_map<V3Hash, std::vector<DfgVertex*>> verticesWithEqualHashes;
verticesWithEqualHashes.reserve(dfg.size());
// Pre-hash variables, these are all unique, so just set their hash to a unique value
uint32_t varHash = 0;
for (DfgVertexVar *vtxp = dfg.varVerticesBeginp(), *nextp; vtxp; vtxp = nextp) {
nextp = vtxp->verticesNext();
vtxp->user<V3Hash>() = V3Hash{++varHash};
}
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// Similarly pre-hash constants for speed. While we don't combine constants, we do want
// expressions using the same constants to be combined, so we do need to hash equal
// constants to equal values.
for (DfgConst *vtxp = dfg.constVerticesBeginp(), *nextp; vtxp; vtxp = nextp) {
nextp = vtxp->verticesNext();
if (VL_LIKELY(nextp)) VL_PREFETCH_RW(nextp);
// Delete unused constants while we are at it.
if (!vtxp->hasSinks()) {
vtxp->unlinkDelete(dfg);
continue;
}
vtxp->user<V3Hash>() = vtxp->num().toHash() + varHash;
}
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// Combine operation vertices
for (DfgVertex *vtxp = dfg.opVerticesBeginp(), *nextp; vtxp; vtxp = nextp) {
nextp = vtxp->verticesNext();
if (VL_LIKELY(nextp)) VL_PREFETCH_RW(nextp);
// Delete unused nodes while we are at it.
if (!vtxp->hasSinks()) {
vtxp->unlinkDelete(dfg);
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continue;
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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}
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const V3Hash hash = vtxp->hash();
std::vector<DfgVertex*>& vec = verticesWithEqualHashes[hash];
bool replaced = false;
for (DfgVertex* const candidatep : vec) {
if (candidatep->equals(*vtxp, equalsCache)) {
++ctx.m_eliminated;
vtxp->replaceWith(candidatep);
vtxp->unlinkDelete(dfg);
replaced = true;
break;
}
}
if (replaced) continue;
vec.push_back(vtxp);
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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}
}
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// Prune unused nodes
removeUnused(dfg);
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}
void V3DfgPasses::inlineVars(const DfgGraph& dfg) {
for (DfgVertexVar *vtxp = dfg.varVerticesBeginp(), *nextp; vtxp; vtxp = nextp) {
nextp = vtxp->verticesNext();
if (DfgVarPacked* const varp = vtxp->cast<DfgVarPacked>()) {
// Don't inline SystemC variables, as SystemC types are not interchangeable with
// internal types, and hence the variables are not interchangeable either.
if (varp->hasSinks() && varp->isDrivenFullyByDfg() && !varp->varp()->isSc()) {
DfgVertex* const driverp = varp->source(0);
// If driven from a SystemC variable, don't inline this variable
if (DfgVertexVar* const driverVarp = driverp->cast<DfgVarPacked>()) {
if (driverVarp->varp()->isSc()) continue;
}
varp->forEachSinkEdge([=](DfgEdge& edge) {
// If sink is a SystemC variable, don't inline that sink
if (DfgVertexVar* const sinkVarp = edge.sinkp()->cast<DfgVarPacked>()) {
if (sinkVarp->varp()->isSc()) return;
}
edge.relinkSource(driverp);
});
}
}
}
}
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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void V3DfgPasses::removeVars(DfgGraph& dfg, DfgRemoveVarsContext& ctx) {
for (DfgVertexVar *vtxp = dfg.varVerticesBeginp(), *nextp; vtxp; vtxp = nextp) {
nextp = vtxp->verticesNext();
// We can only eliminate DfgVarPacked vertices at the moment
DfgVarPacked* const varp = vtxp->cast<DfgVarPacked>();
if (!varp) continue;
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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// Can't remove if it has consumers
if (varp->hasSinks()) continue;
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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// Otherwise if it has drivers
if (varp->isDrivenByDfg()) {
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// Can't remove if read in the module and driven here (i.e.: it's an output of the DFG)
if (varp->hasModRefs()) continue;
// Can't remove if referenced externally, or other special reasons
if (varp->keep()) continue;
// If the driver of this variable is not an inlined vertex, then we would need a
// temporary when rendering the graph. Instead of introducing a temporary, keep the
// first variable that is driven by that driver. Note that we still remove if the only
// sinks we have are variables, as we might be able to remove all of them (we can be
// sure the not inlined if we have at least 2 non-variable sinks).
if (varp->isDrivenFullyByDfg()) {
DfgVertex* const driverp = varp->source(0);
if (!driverp->inlined()) {
unsigned nonVarSinks = 0;
const DfgVarPacked* firstp = nullptr;
const bool found = driverp->findSink<DfgVertex>([&](const DfgVertex& sink) {
if (const DfgVarPacked* const sinkVarp = sink.cast<DfgVarPacked>()) {
if (!firstp) firstp = sinkVarp;
} else {
++nonVarSinks;
}
// We can stop as soon as we found the first var, and 2 non-var sinks
return firstp && nonVarSinks >= 2;
});
// Keep this DfgVarPacked if needed
if (found && firstp == varp) continue;
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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}
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}
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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}
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// OK, we can delete this DfgVarPacked from the graph.
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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// If not referenced outside the DFG, then also delete the referenced AstVar (now unused).
if (!varp->hasRefs()) {
++ctx.m_removed;
varp->varp()->unlinkFrBack()->deleteTree();
}
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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// Unlink and delete vertex
varp->unlinkDelete(dfg);
}
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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}
void V3DfgPasses::removeUnused(DfgGraph& dfg) {
// DfgVertex::user is the next pointer of the work list elements
const auto userDataInUse = dfg.userDataInUse();
// Head of work list. Note that we want all next pointers in the list to be non-zero (including
// that of the last element). This allows as to do two important things: detect if an element
// is in the list by checking for a non-zero next poitner, and easy prefetching without
// conditionals. The address of the graph is a good sentinel as it is a valid memory address,
// and we can easily check for the end of the list.
DfgVertex* const sentinelp = reinterpret_cast<DfgVertex*>(&dfg);
DfgVertex* workListp = sentinelp;
// Add all unused vertices to the work list. This also allocates all DfgVertex::user.
for (DfgVertex *vtxp = dfg.opVerticesBeginp(), *nextp; vtxp; vtxp = nextp) {
nextp = vtxp->verticesNext();
if (VL_LIKELY(nextp)) VL_PREFETCH_RW(nextp);
if (vtxp->hasSinks()) {
// This vertex is used. Allocate user, but don't add to work list.
vtxp->setUser<DfgVertex*>(nullptr);
} else {
// This vertex is unused. Add to work list.
vtxp->setUser<DfgVertex*>(workListp);
workListp = vtxp;
}
}
// Process the work list
while (workListp != sentinelp) {
// Pick up the head
DfgVertex* const vtxp = workListp;
// Detach the head
workListp = vtxp->getUser<DfgVertex*>();
// Prefetch next item
VL_PREFETCH_RW(workListp);
// If used, then nothing to do, so move on
if (vtxp->hasSinks()) continue;
// Add sources of unused vertex to work list
vtxp->forEachSource([&](DfgVertex& src) {
// We only remove actual operation vertices in this loop
if (src.is<DfgConst>() || src.is<DfgVertexVar>()) return;
// If already in work list then nothing to do
if (src.getUser<DfgVertex*>()) return;
// Actually add to work list.
src.setUser<DfgVertex*>(workListp);
workListp = &src;
});
// Remove the unused vertex
vtxp->unlinkDelete(dfg);
}
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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// Finally remove unused constants
for (DfgConst *vtxp = dfg.constVerticesBeginp(), *nextp; vtxp; vtxp = nextp) {
nextp = vtxp->verticesNext();
if (!vtxp->hasSinks()) vtxp->unlinkDelete(dfg);
}
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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}
void V3DfgPasses::optimize(DfgGraph& dfg, V3DfgOptimizationContext& ctx) {
// There is absolutely nothing useful we can do with a graph of size 2 or less
if (dfg.size() <= 2) return;
int passNumber = 0;
const auto apply = [&](int dumpLevel, const string& name, std::function<void()> pass) {
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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pass();
if (dumpDfg() >= dumpLevel) {
const string strippedName = VString::removeWhitespace(name);
const string label
= ctx.prefix() + "pass-" + cvtToStr(passNumber) + "-" + strippedName;
dfg.dumpDotFilePrefixed(label);
}
++passNumber;
};
if (dumpDfg() >= 8) dfg.dumpDotAllVarConesPrefixed(ctx.prefix() + "input");
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apply(3, "input ", [&]() {});
apply(4, "inlineVars ", [&]() { inlineVars(dfg); });
apply(4, "cse0 ", [&]() { cse(dfg, ctx.m_cseContext0); });
if (v3Global.opt.fDfgPeephole()) {
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apply(4, "peephole ", [&]() { peephole(dfg, ctx.m_peepholeContext); });
// We just did CSE above, so without peephole there is no need to run it again these
apply(4, "cse1 ", [&]() { cse(dfg, ctx.m_cseContext1); });
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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}
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apply(4, "removeVars ", [&]() { removeVars(dfg, ctx.m_removeVarsContext); });
if (dumpDfg() >= 8) dfg.dumpDotAllVarConesPrefixed(ctx.prefix() + "optimized");
Introduce DFG based combinational logic optimizer (#3527) Added a new data-flow graph (DFG) based combinational logic optimizer. The capabilities of this covers a combination of V3Const and V3Gate, but is also more capable of transforming combinational logic into simplified forms and more. This entail adding a new internal representation, `DfgGraph`, and appropriate `astToDfg` and `dfgToAst` conversion functions. The graph represents some of the combinational equations (~continuous assignments) in a module, and for the duration of the DFG passes, it takes over the role of AstModule. A bulk of the Dfg vertices represent expressions. These vertex classes, and the corresponding conversions to/from AST are mostly auto-generated by astgen, together with a DfgVVisitor that can be used for dynamic dispatch based on vertex (operation) types. The resulting combinational logic graph (a `DfgGraph`) is then optimized in various ways. Currently we perform common sub-expression elimination, variable inlining, and some specific peephole optimizations, but there is scope for more optimizations in the future using the same representation. The optimizer is run directly before and after inlining. The pre inline pass can operate on smaller graphs and hence converges faster, but still has a chance of substantially reducing the size of the logic on some designs, making inlining both faster and less memory intensive. The post inline pass can then optimize across the inlined module boundaries. No optimization is performed across a module boundary. For debugging purposes, each peephole optimization can be disabled individually via the -fno-dfg-peepnole-<OPT> option, where <OPT> is one of the optimizations listed in V3DfgPeephole.h, for example -fno-dfg-peephole-remove-not-not. The peephole patterns currently implemented were mostly picked based on the design that inspired this work, and on that design the optimizations yields ~30% single threaded speedup, and ~50% speedup on 4 threads. As you can imagine not having to haul around redundant combinational networks in the rest of the compilation pipeline also helps with memory consumption, and up to 30% peak memory usage of Verilator was observed on the same design. Gains on other arbitrary designs are smaller (and can be improved by analyzing those designs). For example OpenTitan gains between 1-15% speedup depending on build type.
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}