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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: Convert DfgGraph to AstModule
//
// Code available from: https://verilator.org
//
//*************************************************************************
//
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// Copyright 2003-2025 by Wilson Snyder. This program is free software; you
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 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
//
//*************************************************************************
//
// Convert DfgGraph back to AstModule. We recursively construct AstNodeExpr expressions for each
// DfgVertex which represents a storage location (e.g.: DfgVarPacked), or has multiple sinks
// without driving a storage location (and hence needs a temporary variable to duplication). The
// recursion stops when we reach a DfgVertex representing a storage location (e.g.: DfgVarPacked),
// or a vertex that that has multiple sinks (as these nodes will have a [potentially new temporary]
// corresponding// storage location). Redundant variables (those whose source vertex drives
// multiple variables) are eliminated when possible. Vertices driving multiple variables are
// rendered once, driving an arbitrarily (but deterministically) chosen canonical variable, and the
// corresponding redundant variables are assigned from the canonical variable.
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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//
//*************************************************************************
#include "V3PchAstNoMT.h" // VL_MT_DISABLED_CODE_UNIT
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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#include "V3Dfg.h"
#include "V3DfgPasses.h"
#include "V3UniqueNames.h"
#include <unordered_map>
VL_DEFINE_DEBUG_FUNCTIONS;
namespace {
// Create an AstNodeExpr out of a DfgVertex. For most AstNodeExpr subtypes, this can be done
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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// automatically. For the few special cases, we provide specializations below
template <typename T_Node, typename T_Vertex, typename... Ops>
T_Node* makeNode(const T_Vertex* vtxp, Ops... ops) {
T_Node* const nodep = new T_Node{vtxp->fileline(), ops...};
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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UASSERT_OBJ(nodep->width() == static_cast<int>(vtxp->width()), vtxp,
"Incorrect width in AstNode created from DfgVertex "
<< vtxp->typeName() << ": " << nodep->width() << " vs " << vtxp->width());
return nodep;
}
//======================================================================
// Vertices needing special conversion
template <>
AstExtend* makeNode<AstExtend, DfgExtend, AstNodeExpr*>( //
const DfgExtend* vtxp, AstNodeExpr* op1) {
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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return new AstExtend{vtxp->fileline(), op1, static_cast<int>(vtxp->width())};
}
template <>
AstExtendS* makeNode<AstExtendS, DfgExtendS, AstNodeExpr*>( //
const DfgExtendS* vtxp, AstNodeExpr* op1) {
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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return new AstExtendS{vtxp->fileline(), op1, static_cast<int>(vtxp->width())};
}
template <>
AstShiftL* makeNode<AstShiftL, DfgShiftL, AstNodeExpr*, AstNodeExpr*>( //
const DfgShiftL* vtxp, AstNodeExpr* op1, AstNodeExpr* op2) {
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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return new AstShiftL{vtxp->fileline(), op1, op2, static_cast<int>(vtxp->width())};
}
template <>
AstShiftR* makeNode<AstShiftR, DfgShiftR, AstNodeExpr*, AstNodeExpr*>( //
const DfgShiftR* vtxp, AstNodeExpr* op1, AstNodeExpr* op2) {
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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return new AstShiftR{vtxp->fileline(), op1, op2, static_cast<int>(vtxp->width())};
}
template <>
AstShiftRS* makeNode<AstShiftRS, DfgShiftRS, AstNodeExpr*, AstNodeExpr*>( //
const DfgShiftRS* vtxp, AstNodeExpr* op1, AstNodeExpr* op2) {
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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return new AstShiftRS{vtxp->fileline(), op1, op2, static_cast<int>(vtxp->width())};
}
} // namespace
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template <bool T_Scoped>
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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class DfgToAstVisitor final : DfgVisitor {
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// NODE STATE
// AstScope::user2p // The combinational AstActive under this scope
const VNUser2InUse m_user2InUse;
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// TYPES
using Variable = std::conditional_t<T_Scoped, AstVarScope, AstVar>;
using Container = std::conditional_t<T_Scoped, AstActive, AstNodeModule>;
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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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// STATE
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AstModule* const m_modp; // The parent/result module - This is nullptr when T_Scoped
V3DfgDfgToAstContext& m_ctx; // The context for stats
AstNodeExpr* m_resultp = nullptr; // The result node of the current traversal
AstAlways* m_alwaysp = nullptr; // Process to add assignments to, if have a default driver
Container* m_containerp = nullptr; // The AstNodeModule or AstActive to insert assigns into
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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// METHODS
static Variable* getNode(const DfgVertexVar* vtxp) {
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if VL_CONSTEXPR_CXX17 (T_Scoped) {
return reinterpret_cast<Variable*>(vtxp->varScopep());
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} else {
return reinterpret_cast<Variable*>(vtxp->varp());
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}
}
static AstActive* getCombActive(AstScope* scopep) {
if (!scopep->user2p()) {
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// Try to find the existing combinational AstActive
for (AstNode* nodep = scopep->blocksp(); nodep; nodep = nodep->nextp()) {
AstActive* const activep = VN_CAST(nodep, Active);
if (!activep) continue;
if (activep->hasCombo()) {
scopep->user2p(activep);
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break;
}
}
// If there isn't one, create a new one
if (!scopep->user2p()) {
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FileLine* const flp = scopep->fileline();
AstSenTree* const senTreep
= new AstSenTree{flp, new AstSenItem{flp, AstSenItem::Combo{}}};
AstActive* const activep = new AstActive{flp, "", senTreep};
activep->senTreeStorep(senTreep);
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scopep->addBlocksp(activep);
scopep->user2p(activep);
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}
}
return VN_AS(scopep->user2p(), Active);
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}
AstNodeExpr* convertDfgVertexToAstNodeExpr(DfgVertex* 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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UASSERT_OBJ(!m_resultp, vtxp, "Result already computed");
UASSERT_OBJ(vtxp->is<DfgVertexVar>() || vtxp->is<DfgConst>() //
|| !vtxp->hasMultipleSinks() || vtxp->isCheaperThanLoad(), //
vtxp, "Intermediate DFG value with multiple uses");
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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iterate(vtxp);
UASSERT_OBJ(m_resultp, vtxp, "Missing result");
AstNodeExpr* const resultp = m_resultp;
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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m_resultp = nullptr;
return resultp;
}
void createAssignment(FileLine* flp, AstNodeExpr* lhsp, DfgVertex* driverp) {
// Keep track of statisticss
++m_ctx.m_resultEquations;
// Render the driver
AstNodeExpr* const rhsp = convertDfgVertexToAstNodeExpr(driverp);
// Update LHS locations to reflect the location of the original driver
lhsp->foreach([&](AstNode* nodep) { nodep->fileline(flp); });
// If using a process, add Assign there
if (m_alwaysp) {
m_alwaysp->addStmtsp(new AstAssign{flp, lhsp, rhsp});
return;
}
// Otherwise create an AssignW
AstAssignW* const ap = new AstAssignW{flp, lhsp, rhsp};
m_containerp->addStmtsp(new AstAlways{ap});
}
void convertDriver(FileLine* flp, AstNodeExpr* lhsp, DfgVertex* driverp) {
if (DfgSplicePacked* const sPackedp = driverp->cast<DfgSplicePacked>()) {
// Partial assignment of packed value
sPackedp->foreachDriver([&](DfgVertex& src, uint32_t lo, FileLine* dflp) {
// Create Sel
AstConst* const lsbp = new AstConst{dflp, lo};
const int width = static_cast<int>(src.width());
AstSel* const nLhsp = new AstSel{dflp, lhsp->cloneTreePure(false), lsbp, width};
// Convert source
convertDriver(dflp, nLhsp, &src);
Optimize complex combinational logic in DFG (#6298) This patch adds DfgLogic, which is a vertex that represents a whole, arbitrarily complex combinational AstAlways or AstAssignW in the DfgGraph. Implementing this requires computing the variables live at entry to the AstAlways (variables read by the block), so there is a new ControlFlowGraph data structure and a classical data-flow analysis based live variable analysis to do that at the variable level (as opposed to bit/element level). The actual CFG construction and live variable analysis is best effort, and might fail for currently unhandled constructs or data types. This can be extended later. V3DfgAstToDfg is changed to convert the Ast into an initial DfgGraph containing only DfgLogic, DfgVertexSplice and DfgVertexVar vertices. The DfgLogic are then subsequently synthesized into primitive operations by the new V3DfgSynthesize pass, which is a combination of the old V3DfgAstToDfg conversion and new code to handle AstAlways blocks with complex flow control. V3DfgSynthesize by default will synthesize roughly the same constructs as V3DfgAstToDfg used to handle before, plus any logic that is part of a combinational cycle within the DfgGraph. This enables breaking up these cycles, for which there are extensions to V3DfgBreakCycles in this patch as well. V3DfgSynthesize will then delete all non synthesized or non synthesizable DfgLogic vertices and the rest of the Dfg pipeline is identical, with minor changes to adjust for the changed representation. Because with this change we can now eliminate many more UNOPTFLAT, DFG has been disabled in all the tests that specifically target testing the scheduling and reporting of circular combinational logic.
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// Delete Sel - was cloned
VL_DO_DANGLING(nLhsp->deleteTree(), nLhsp);
return false;
});
return;
}
if (DfgSpliceArray* const sArrayp = driverp->cast<DfgSpliceArray>()) {
// Partial assignment of array variable
sArrayp->foreachDriver([&](DfgVertex& src, uint32_t lo, FileLine* dflp) {
UASSERT_OBJ(src.size() == 1, &src, "We only handle single elements");
// Create ArraySel
AstConst* const idxp = new AstConst{dflp, lo};
AstArraySel* const nLhsp = new AstArraySel{dflp, lhsp->cloneTreePure(false), idxp};
// Convert source
if (const DfgUnitArray* const uap = src.cast<DfgUnitArray>()) {
convertDriver(dflp, nLhsp, uap->srcp());
Optimize complex combinational logic in DFG (#6298) This patch adds DfgLogic, which is a vertex that represents a whole, arbitrarily complex combinational AstAlways or AstAssignW in the DfgGraph. Implementing this requires computing the variables live at entry to the AstAlways (variables read by the block), so there is a new ControlFlowGraph data structure and a classical data-flow analysis based live variable analysis to do that at the variable level (as opposed to bit/element level). The actual CFG construction and live variable analysis is best effort, and might fail for currently unhandled constructs or data types. This can be extended later. V3DfgAstToDfg is changed to convert the Ast into an initial DfgGraph containing only DfgLogic, DfgVertexSplice and DfgVertexVar vertices. The DfgLogic are then subsequently synthesized into primitive operations by the new V3DfgSynthesize pass, which is a combination of the old V3DfgAstToDfg conversion and new code to handle AstAlways blocks with complex flow control. V3DfgSynthesize by default will synthesize roughly the same constructs as V3DfgAstToDfg used to handle before, plus any logic that is part of a combinational cycle within the DfgGraph. This enables breaking up these cycles, for which there are extensions to V3DfgBreakCycles in this patch as well. V3DfgSynthesize will then delete all non synthesized or non synthesizable DfgLogic vertices and the rest of the Dfg pipeline is identical, with minor changes to adjust for the changed representation. Because with this change we can now eliminate many more UNOPTFLAT, DFG has been disabled in all the tests that specifically target testing the scheduling and reporting of circular combinational logic.
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} else {
convertDriver(dflp, nLhsp, &src);
Optimize complex combinational logic in DFG (#6298) This patch adds DfgLogic, which is a vertex that represents a whole, arbitrarily complex combinational AstAlways or AstAssignW in the DfgGraph. Implementing this requires computing the variables live at entry to the AstAlways (variables read by the block), so there is a new ControlFlowGraph data structure and a classical data-flow analysis based live variable analysis to do that at the variable level (as opposed to bit/element level). The actual CFG construction and live variable analysis is best effort, and might fail for currently unhandled constructs or data types. This can be extended later. V3DfgAstToDfg is changed to convert the Ast into an initial DfgGraph containing only DfgLogic, DfgVertexSplice and DfgVertexVar vertices. The DfgLogic are then subsequently synthesized into primitive operations by the new V3DfgSynthesize pass, which is a combination of the old V3DfgAstToDfg conversion and new code to handle AstAlways blocks with complex flow control. V3DfgSynthesize by default will synthesize roughly the same constructs as V3DfgAstToDfg used to handle before, plus any logic that is part of a combinational cycle within the DfgGraph. This enables breaking up these cycles, for which there are extensions to V3DfgBreakCycles in this patch as well. V3DfgSynthesize will then delete all non synthesized or non synthesizable DfgLogic vertices and the rest of the Dfg pipeline is identical, with minor changes to adjust for the changed representation. Because with this change we can now eliminate many more UNOPTFLAT, DFG has been disabled in all the tests that specifically target testing the scheduling and reporting of circular combinational logic.
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}
// Delete ArraySel - was cloned
VL_DO_DANGLING(nLhsp->deleteTree(), nLhsp);
return false;
});
return;
}
if (const DfgUnitArray* const uap = driverp->cast<DfgUnitArray>()) {
Optimize complex combinational logic in DFG (#6298) This patch adds DfgLogic, which is a vertex that represents a whole, arbitrarily complex combinational AstAlways or AstAssignW in the DfgGraph. Implementing this requires computing the variables live at entry to the AstAlways (variables read by the block), so there is a new ControlFlowGraph data structure and a classical data-flow analysis based live variable analysis to do that at the variable level (as opposed to bit/element level). The actual CFG construction and live variable analysis is best effort, and might fail for currently unhandled constructs or data types. This can be extended later. V3DfgAstToDfg is changed to convert the Ast into an initial DfgGraph containing only DfgLogic, DfgVertexSplice and DfgVertexVar vertices. The DfgLogic are then subsequently synthesized into primitive operations by the new V3DfgSynthesize pass, which is a combination of the old V3DfgAstToDfg conversion and new code to handle AstAlways blocks with complex flow control. V3DfgSynthesize by default will synthesize roughly the same constructs as V3DfgAstToDfg used to handle before, plus any logic that is part of a combinational cycle within the DfgGraph. This enables breaking up these cycles, for which there are extensions to V3DfgBreakCycles in this patch as well. V3DfgSynthesize will then delete all non synthesized or non synthesizable DfgLogic vertices and the rest of the Dfg pipeline is identical, with minor changes to adjust for the changed representation. Because with this change we can now eliminate many more UNOPTFLAT, DFG has been disabled in all the tests that specifically target testing the scheduling and reporting of circular combinational logic.
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// Single element array being assigned a unit array. Needs an ArraySel.
AstConst* const idxp = new AstConst{flp, 0};
AstArraySel* const nLhsp = new AstArraySel{flp, lhsp->cloneTreePure(false), idxp};
// Convert source
convertDriver(flp, nLhsp, uap->srcp());
Optimize complex combinational logic in DFG (#6298) This patch adds DfgLogic, which is a vertex that represents a whole, arbitrarily complex combinational AstAlways or AstAssignW in the DfgGraph. Implementing this requires computing the variables live at entry to the AstAlways (variables read by the block), so there is a new ControlFlowGraph data structure and a classical data-flow analysis based live variable analysis to do that at the variable level (as opposed to bit/element level). The actual CFG construction and live variable analysis is best effort, and might fail for currently unhandled constructs or data types. This can be extended later. V3DfgAstToDfg is changed to convert the Ast into an initial DfgGraph containing only DfgLogic, DfgVertexSplice and DfgVertexVar vertices. The DfgLogic are then subsequently synthesized into primitive operations by the new V3DfgSynthesize pass, which is a combination of the old V3DfgAstToDfg conversion and new code to handle AstAlways blocks with complex flow control. V3DfgSynthesize by default will synthesize roughly the same constructs as V3DfgAstToDfg used to handle before, plus any logic that is part of a combinational cycle within the DfgGraph. This enables breaking up these cycles, for which there are extensions to V3DfgBreakCycles in this patch as well. V3DfgSynthesize will then delete all non synthesized or non synthesizable DfgLogic vertices and the rest of the Dfg pipeline is identical, with minor changes to adjust for the changed representation. Because with this change we can now eliminate many more UNOPTFLAT, DFG has been disabled in all the tests that specifically target testing the scheduling and reporting of circular combinational logic.
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// Delete ArraySel - was cloned
VL_DO_DANGLING(nLhsp->deleteTree(), nLhsp);
return;
}
// Base case: assign vertex to current lhs
createAssignment(flp, lhsp->cloneTreePure(false), 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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// VISITORS
void visit(DfgVertex* vtxp) override { // LCOV_EXCL_START
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vtxp->v3fatalSrc("Unhandled DfgVertex: " << vtxp->typeName());
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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} // LCOV_EXCL_STOP
void visit(DfgVarPacked* vtxp) override {
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m_resultp = new AstVarRef{vtxp->fileline(), getNode(vtxp), VAccess::READ};
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 visit(DfgVarArray* vtxp) override {
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m_resultp = new AstVarRef{vtxp->fileline(), getNode(vtxp), VAccess::READ};
}
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 visit(DfgConst* vtxp) override { //
m_resultp = new AstConst{vtxp->fileline(), vtxp->num()};
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 visit(DfgSel* vtxp) override {
FileLine* const flp = vtxp->fileline();
AstNodeExpr* const fromp = convertDfgVertexToAstNodeExpr(vtxp->fromp());
AstConst* const lsbp = new AstConst{flp, vtxp->lsb()};
m_resultp = new AstSel{flp, fromp, lsbp, static_cast<int>(vtxp->width())};
}
void visit(DfgMux* vtxp) override {
FileLine* const flp = vtxp->fileline();
AstNodeExpr* const fromp = convertDfgVertexToAstNodeExpr(vtxp->fromp());
AstNodeExpr* const lsbp = convertDfgVertexToAstNodeExpr(vtxp->lsbp());
m_resultp = new AstSel{flp, fromp, lsbp, static_cast<int>(vtxp->width())};
}
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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// The rest of the 'visit' methods are generated by 'astgen'
#include "V3Dfg__gen_dfg_to_ast.h"
// Constructor
DfgToAstVisitor(DfgGraph& dfg, V3DfgDfgToAstContext& ctx)
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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: m_modp{dfg.modulep()}
, m_ctx{ctx} {
if (v3Global.opt.debugCheck()) V3DfgPasses::typeCheck(dfg);
// Convert the graph back to combinational assignments
// The graph must have been regularized, so we only need to render assignments
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for (DfgVertexVar& vtx : dfg.varVertices()) {
// If there is no driver (this vertex is an input to the graph), then nothing to do.
if (!vtx.srcp()) {
UASSERT_OBJ(!vtx.defaultp(), &vtx, "Only default driver on variable");
continue;
}
Optimize complex combinational logic in DFG (#6298) This patch adds DfgLogic, which is a vertex that represents a whole, arbitrarily complex combinational AstAlways or AstAssignW in the DfgGraph. Implementing this requires computing the variables live at entry to the AstAlways (variables read by the block), so there is a new ControlFlowGraph data structure and a classical data-flow analysis based live variable analysis to do that at the variable level (as opposed to bit/element level). The actual CFG construction and live variable analysis is best effort, and might fail for currently unhandled constructs or data types. This can be extended later. V3DfgAstToDfg is changed to convert the Ast into an initial DfgGraph containing only DfgLogic, DfgVertexSplice and DfgVertexVar vertices. The DfgLogic are then subsequently synthesized into primitive operations by the new V3DfgSynthesize pass, which is a combination of the old V3DfgAstToDfg conversion and new code to handle AstAlways blocks with complex flow control. V3DfgSynthesize by default will synthesize roughly the same constructs as V3DfgAstToDfg used to handle before, plus any logic that is part of a combinational cycle within the DfgGraph. This enables breaking up these cycles, for which there are extensions to V3DfgBreakCycles in this patch as well. V3DfgSynthesize will then delete all non synthesized or non synthesizable DfgLogic vertices and the rest of the Dfg pipeline is identical, with minor changes to adjust for the changed representation. Because with this change we can now eliminate many more UNOPTFLAT, DFG has been disabled in all the tests that specifically target testing the scheduling and reporting of circular combinational logic.
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++m_ctx.m_outputVariables;
// Render variable assignments
FileLine* const flp = vtx.driverFileLine() ? vtx.driverFileLine() : vtx.fileline();
AstVarRef* const lhsp = new AstVarRef{flp, getNode(&vtx), VAccess::WRITE};
Optimize complex combinational logic in DFG (#6298) This patch adds DfgLogic, which is a vertex that represents a whole, arbitrarily complex combinational AstAlways or AstAssignW in the DfgGraph. Implementing this requires computing the variables live at entry to the AstAlways (variables read by the block), so there is a new ControlFlowGraph data structure and a classical data-flow analysis based live variable analysis to do that at the variable level (as opposed to bit/element level). The actual CFG construction and live variable analysis is best effort, and might fail for currently unhandled constructs or data types. This can be extended later. V3DfgAstToDfg is changed to convert the Ast into an initial DfgGraph containing only DfgLogic, DfgVertexSplice and DfgVertexVar vertices. The DfgLogic are then subsequently synthesized into primitive operations by the new V3DfgSynthesize pass, which is a combination of the old V3DfgAstToDfg conversion and new code to handle AstAlways blocks with complex flow control. V3DfgSynthesize by default will synthesize roughly the same constructs as V3DfgAstToDfg used to handle before, plus any logic that is part of a combinational cycle within the DfgGraph. This enables breaking up these cycles, for which there are extensions to V3DfgBreakCycles in this patch as well. V3DfgSynthesize will then delete all non synthesized or non synthesizable DfgLogic vertices and the rest of the Dfg pipeline is identical, with minor changes to adjust for the changed representation. Because with this change we can now eliminate many more UNOPTFLAT, DFG has been disabled in all the tests that specifically target testing the scheduling and reporting of circular combinational logic.
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VL_RESTORER(m_containerp);
if VL_CONSTEXPR_CXX17 (T_Scoped) {
// Add it to the scope holding the target variable
AstActive* const activep = getCombActive(vtx.varScopep()->scopep());
m_containerp = reinterpret_cast<Container*>(activep);
Optimize complex combinational logic in DFG (#6298) This patch adds DfgLogic, which is a vertex that represents a whole, arbitrarily complex combinational AstAlways or AstAssignW in the DfgGraph. Implementing this requires computing the variables live at entry to the AstAlways (variables read by the block), so there is a new ControlFlowGraph data structure and a classical data-flow analysis based live variable analysis to do that at the variable level (as opposed to bit/element level). The actual CFG construction and live variable analysis is best effort, and might fail for currently unhandled constructs or data types. This can be extended later. V3DfgAstToDfg is changed to convert the Ast into an initial DfgGraph containing only DfgLogic, DfgVertexSplice and DfgVertexVar vertices. The DfgLogic are then subsequently synthesized into primitive operations by the new V3DfgSynthesize pass, which is a combination of the old V3DfgAstToDfg conversion and new code to handle AstAlways blocks with complex flow control. V3DfgSynthesize by default will synthesize roughly the same constructs as V3DfgAstToDfg used to handle before, plus any logic that is part of a combinational cycle within the DfgGraph. This enables breaking up these cycles, for which there are extensions to V3DfgBreakCycles in this patch as well. V3DfgSynthesize will then delete all non synthesized or non synthesizable DfgLogic vertices and the rest of the Dfg pipeline is identical, with minor changes to adjust for the changed representation. Because with this change we can now eliminate many more UNOPTFLAT, DFG has been disabled in all the tests that specifically target testing the scheduling and reporting of circular combinational logic.
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} else {
// Add it to the parent module of the DfgGraph
m_containerp = reinterpret_cast<Container*>(m_modp);
}
// If there is a default value, render all drivers under an AstAlways
VL_RESTORER(m_alwaysp);
if (DfgVertex* const defaultp = vtx.defaultp()) {
Optimize complex combinational logic in DFG (#6298) This patch adds DfgLogic, which is a vertex that represents a whole, arbitrarily complex combinational AstAlways or AstAssignW in the DfgGraph. Implementing this requires computing the variables live at entry to the AstAlways (variables read by the block), so there is a new ControlFlowGraph data structure and a classical data-flow analysis based live variable analysis to do that at the variable level (as opposed to bit/element level). The actual CFG construction and live variable analysis is best effort, and might fail for currently unhandled constructs or data types. This can be extended later. V3DfgAstToDfg is changed to convert the Ast into an initial DfgGraph containing only DfgLogic, DfgVertexSplice and DfgVertexVar vertices. The DfgLogic are then subsequently synthesized into primitive operations by the new V3DfgSynthesize pass, which is a combination of the old V3DfgAstToDfg conversion and new code to handle AstAlways blocks with complex flow control. V3DfgSynthesize by default will synthesize roughly the same constructs as V3DfgAstToDfg used to handle before, plus any logic that is part of a combinational cycle within the DfgGraph. This enables breaking up these cycles, for which there are extensions to V3DfgBreakCycles in this patch as well. V3DfgSynthesize will then delete all non synthesized or non synthesizable DfgLogic vertices and the rest of the Dfg pipeline is identical, with minor changes to adjust for the changed representation. Because with this change we can now eliminate many more UNOPTFLAT, DFG has been disabled in all the tests that specifically target testing the scheduling and reporting of circular combinational logic.
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++m_ctx.m_outputVariablesWithDefault;
m_alwaysp = new AstAlways{vtx.fileline(), VAlwaysKwd::ALWAYS_COMB, nullptr};
m_containerp->addStmtsp(m_alwaysp);
// The default assignment needs to go first
createAssignment(vtx.fileline(), lhsp->cloneTreePure(false), defaultp);
Optimize complex combinational logic in DFG (#6298) This patch adds DfgLogic, which is a vertex that represents a whole, arbitrarily complex combinational AstAlways or AstAssignW in the DfgGraph. Implementing this requires computing the variables live at entry to the AstAlways (variables read by the block), so there is a new ControlFlowGraph data structure and a classical data-flow analysis based live variable analysis to do that at the variable level (as opposed to bit/element level). The actual CFG construction and live variable analysis is best effort, and might fail for currently unhandled constructs or data types. This can be extended later. V3DfgAstToDfg is changed to convert the Ast into an initial DfgGraph containing only DfgLogic, DfgVertexSplice and DfgVertexVar vertices. The DfgLogic are then subsequently synthesized into primitive operations by the new V3DfgSynthesize pass, which is a combination of the old V3DfgAstToDfg conversion and new code to handle AstAlways blocks with complex flow control. V3DfgSynthesize by default will synthesize roughly the same constructs as V3DfgAstToDfg used to handle before, plus any logic that is part of a combinational cycle within the DfgGraph. This enables breaking up these cycles, for which there are extensions to V3DfgBreakCycles in this patch as well. V3DfgSynthesize will then delete all non synthesized or non synthesizable DfgLogic vertices and the rest of the Dfg pipeline is identical, with minor changes to adjust for the changed representation. Because with this change we can now eliminate many more UNOPTFLAT, DFG has been disabled in all the tests that specifically target testing the scheduling and reporting of circular combinational logic.
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}
// Render the drivers
convertDriver(flp, lhsp, vtx.srcp());
// convetDriver always clones lhsp
VL_DO_DANGLING(lhsp->deleteTree(), lhsp);
}
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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}
public:
static void apply(DfgGraph& dfg, V3DfgDfgToAstContext& ctx) { DfgToAstVisitor{dfg, ctx}; }
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::dfgToAst(DfgGraph& dfg, V3DfgContext& ctx) {
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if (dfg.modulep()) {
DfgToAstVisitor</* T_Scoped: */ false>::apply(dfg, ctx.m_dfg2AstContext);
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} else {
DfgToAstVisitor</* T_Scoped: */ true>::apply(dfg, ctx.m_dfg2AstContext);
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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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}