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Optimize fine grained trace activity flags (#2336)

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Firstly, we always use a byte array for fine grained activity flags
instead of a bit vector (we used to use a byte array only if we had
parallel mtasks). The byte vector can be set more cheaply in eval,
closing about 1/3 of the gap in performance between compiling with
or without --trace on SweRV EH1. The speed of tracing itself is not
measurably different.

Secondly, we prune the activity tracking such that if a set of activity
flag combinations only guard a small number of signals, we will turn
those signals into awayls traced signals. This avoids code which
sometimes tests dozens of activity flags just to subsequently check one
signal and dump it if it's value changed. We can just check the signal
state straight instead, and not bother with the flags. This removes
about 30% of activity flags in SweRV EH1, and makes both single threaded
VCD and FST tracing 8-9% faster.
This commit is contained in:
Geza Lore
2020-05-17 13:53:02 +01:00
committed by GitHub
parent 1f52b01b2c
commit dc25e9b949
6 changed files with 176 additions and 159 deletions
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src/V3Trace.cpp
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@@ -52,9 +52,8 @@
// Graph vertexes
class TraceActivityVertex : public V3GraphVertex {
AstNode* m_insertp; // Insert before this statement
AstNode* const m_insertp;
vlsint32_t m_activityCode;
bool m_activityCodeValid;
bool m_slow; // If always slow, we can use the same code
public:
enum { ACTIVITY_NEVER = ((1UL << 31) - 1) };
@@ -64,14 +63,12 @@ public:
: V3GraphVertex(graphp)
, m_insertp(nodep) {
m_activityCode = 0;
m_activityCodeValid = false;
m_slow = slow;
}
TraceActivityVertex(V3Graph* graphp, vlsint32_t code)
: V3GraphVertex(graphp)
, m_insertp(NULL) {
m_activityCode = code;
m_activityCodeValid = true;
m_slow = false;
}
virtual ~TraceActivityVertex() {}
@@ -88,13 +85,9 @@ public:
}
}
virtual string dotColor() const { return slow() ? "yellowGreen" : "green"; }
bool activityCodeValid() const { return m_activityCodeValid; }
vlsint32_t activityCode() const { return m_activityCode; }
bool activityAlways() const { return activityCode() == ACTIVITY_ALWAYS; }
void activityCode(vlsint32_t code) {
m_activityCode = code;
m_activityCodeValid = true;
}
void activityCode(vlsint32_t code) { m_activityCode = code; }
bool slow() const { return m_slow; }
void slow(bool flag) {
if (!flag) m_slow = false;
@@ -192,7 +185,7 @@ private:
// All activity numbers applying to a given trace
typedef std::set<uint32_t> ActCodeSet;
// For activity set, what traces apply
typedef std::multimap<ActCodeSet, const TraceTraceVertex*> TraceVec;
typedef std::multimap<ActCodeSet, TraceTraceVertex*> TraceVec;
// METHODS
VL_DEBUG_FUNC; // Declare debug()
@@ -246,24 +239,27 @@ private:
hashed.clear();
}
void graphSimplify() {
// Remove all variable nodes
for (V3GraphVertex *nextp, *itp = m_graph.verticesBeginp(); itp; itp = nextp) {
nextp = itp->verticesNextp();
if (TraceVarVertex* const vvertexp = dynamic_cast<TraceVarVertex*>(itp)) {
vvertexp->rerouteEdges(&m_graph);
vvertexp->unlinkDelete(&m_graph);
void graphSimplify(bool initial) {
if (initial) {
// Remove all variable nodes
for (V3GraphVertex *nextp, *itp = m_graph.verticesBeginp(); itp; itp = nextp) {
nextp = itp->verticesNextp();
if (TraceVarVertex* const vvertexp = dynamic_cast<TraceVarVertex*>(itp)) {
vvertexp->rerouteEdges(&m_graph);
vvertexp->unlinkDelete(&m_graph);
}
}
}
// Remove multiple variables connecting funcs to traces
// We do this twice, as then we have fewer edges to multiply out in the below expansion.
m_graph.removeRedundantEdges(&V3GraphEdge::followAlwaysTrue);
// Remove all Cfunc nodes
for (V3GraphVertex *nextp, *itp = m_graph.verticesBeginp(); itp; itp = nextp) {
nextp = itp->verticesNextp();
if (TraceCFuncVertex* const vvertexp = dynamic_cast<TraceCFuncVertex*>(itp)) {
vvertexp->rerouteEdges(&m_graph);
vvertexp->unlinkDelete(&m_graph);
// Remove multiple variables connecting funcs to traces
// We do this twice, as then we have fewer edges to multiply out in the below
// expansion.
m_graph.removeRedundantEdges(&V3GraphEdge::followAlwaysTrue);
// Remove all Cfunc nodes
for (V3GraphVertex *nextp, *itp = m_graph.verticesBeginp(); itp; itp = nextp) {
nextp = itp->verticesNextp();
if (TraceCFuncVertex* const vvertexp = dynamic_cast<TraceCFuncVertex*>(itp)) {
vvertexp->rerouteEdges(&m_graph);
vvertexp->unlinkDelete(&m_graph);
}
}
}
@@ -301,77 +297,154 @@ private:
// Activity points with no outputs can be removed
for (V3GraphVertex *nextp, *itp = m_graph.verticesBeginp(); itp; itp = nextp) {
nextp = itp->verticesNextp();
if (TraceActivityVertex* const vvertexp = dynamic_cast<TraceActivityVertex*>(itp)) {
if (!vvertexp->outBeginp()) { vvertexp->unlinkDelete(&m_graph); }
if (TraceActivityVertex* const vtxp = dynamic_cast<TraceActivityVertex*>(itp)) {
// Leave in the always vertex for later use.
if (vtxp != m_alwaysVtxp && !vtxp->outBeginp()) { vtxp->unlinkDelete(&m_graph); }
}
}
}
AstNode* selectActivity(FileLine* flp, uint32_t acode, bool lvalue) {
if (v3Global.opt.mtasks()) {
return new AstArraySel(flp, new AstVarRef(flp, m_activityVscp, lvalue), acode);
} else {
return new AstSel(flp, new AstVarRef(flp, m_activityVscp, lvalue), acode, 1);
}
}
void assignActivity() {
// Select activity numbers and put into each activity vertex
m_activityNumber = 1; // Note 0 indicates "slow"
uint32_t assignactivityNumbers() {
uint32_t activityNumber = 1; // Note 0 indicates "slow"
for (V3GraphVertex* itp = m_graph.verticesBeginp(); itp; itp = itp->verticesNextp()) {
if (TraceActivityVertex* const vvertexp = dynamic_cast<TraceActivityVertex*>(itp)) {
if (!vvertexp->activityCodeValid()) {
if (vvertexp != m_alwaysVtxp) {
if (vvertexp->slow()) {
// If all functions in the calls are slow, we'll share the same code.
// This makes us need less activityNumbers and so speeds up the fast path.
vvertexp->activityCode(TraceActivityVertex::ACTIVITY_SLOW);
} else {
vvertexp->activityCode(m_activityNumber++);
vvertexp->activityCode(activityNumber++);
}
}
}
}
return activityNumber;
}
FileLine* const flp = m_topScopep->fileline();
AstVar* newvarp;
if (v3Global.opt.mtasks()) {
// Create a vector of bytes, not bits, for the tracing vector,
// so that we can set them atomically without locking.
//
// TODO: It would be slightly faster to have a bit vector per
// chain of packed MTasks, but we haven't packed the MTasks yet.
// If we support fully threaded tracing in the future, it would
// make sense to improve this at that time.
AstNodeDType* const newScalarDtp = new AstBasicDType(flp, VFlagLogicPacked(), 1);
v3Global.rootp()->typeTablep()->addTypesp(newScalarDtp);
AstRange* const newArange
= new AstRange(flp, VNumRange(m_activityNumber - 1, 0, false));
AstNodeDType* const newArrDtp = new AstUnpackArrayDType(flp, newScalarDtp, newArange);
v3Global.rootp()->typeTablep()->addTypesp(newArrDtp);
newvarp = new AstVar(flp, AstVarType::MODULETEMP, "__Vm_traceActivity", newArrDtp);
} else {
// For tighter code; round to next word point.
const int activityBits = VL_WORDS_I(m_activityNumber) * VL_EDATASIZE;
newvarp = new AstVar(flp, AstVarType::MODULETEMP, "__Vm_traceActivity",
VFlagBitPacked(), activityBits);
void sortTraces(TraceVec& traces, uint32_t& nFullCodes, uint32_t& nChgCodes) {
// Populate sort structure
traces.clear();
nFullCodes = 0;
nChgCodes = 0;
for (V3GraphVertex* itp = m_graph.verticesBeginp(); itp; itp = itp->verticesNextp()) {
if (TraceTraceVertex* const vtxp = dynamic_cast<TraceTraceVertex*>(itp)) {
ActCodeSet actSet;
UINFO(9, " Add to sort: " << vtxp << endl);
if (debug() >= 9) vtxp->nodep()->dumpTree(cout, "- trnode: ");
for (const V3GraphEdge* edgep = vtxp->inBeginp(); edgep;
edgep = edgep->inNextp()) {
const TraceActivityVertex* const cfvertexp
= dynamic_cast<const TraceActivityVertex*>(edgep->fromp());
UASSERT_OBJ(cfvertexp, vtxp->nodep(),
"Should have been function pointing to this trace");
UINFO(9, " Activity: " << cfvertexp << endl);
if (cfvertexp->activityAlways()) {
// If code 0, we always trace; ignore other codes
actSet.insert(TraceActivityVertex::ACTIVITY_ALWAYS);
} else {
actSet.insert(cfvertexp->activityCode());
}
}
UASSERT_OBJ(actSet.count(TraceActivityVertex::ACTIVITY_ALWAYS) == 0
|| actSet.size() == 1,
vtxp->nodep(), "Always active trace has further triggers");
// Count nodes
if (!vtxp->duplicatep()) {
const uint32_t inc = vtxp->nodep()->codeInc();
nFullCodes += inc;
if (!actSet.empty()) nChgCodes += inc;
}
// If a trace doesn't have activity, it's constant, and we
// don't need to track changes on it.
// We put constants and non-changers last, as then the
// prevvalue vector is more compacted
if (actSet.empty()) actSet.insert(TraceActivityVertex::ACTIVITY_NEVER);
traces.insert(make_pair(actSet, vtxp));
}
}
}
void graphOptimize() {
// Assign initial activity numbers to activity vertices
assignactivityNumbers();
// Sort the traces by activity sets
TraceVec traces;
uint32_t unused1, unused2;
sortTraces(traces, unused1, unused2);
// For each activity set with only a small number of signals, make those
// signals always traced, as it's cheaper to check a few value changes
// than to test a lot of activity flags
TraceVec::iterator it = traces.begin();
const TraceVec::iterator end = traces.end();
while (it != end) {
TraceVec::iterator head = it;
// Count the value comparisons in all traces under this activity set
uint32_t valueComparisons = 0;
const ActCodeSet& actSet = it->first;
for (; it != end && it->first == actSet; ++it) {
valueComparisons += it->second->nodep()->codeInc();
}
// Leave alone always changing, never changing and signals only set in slow code
if (actSet.count(TraceActivityVertex::ACTIVITY_ALWAYS)) continue;
if (actSet.count(TraceActivityVertex::ACTIVITY_NEVER)) continue;
if (actSet.count(TraceActivityVertex::ACTIVITY_SLOW) && actSet.size() == 1) continue;
// If the value comparisons are cheaper to perform than checking the
// activity flags make the signals always traced. Note this cost
// equation is heuristic.
if (valueComparisons < actSet.size() * 2) {
for (; head != it; ++head) {
new V3GraphEdge(&m_graph, m_alwaysVtxp, head->second, 1);
}
}
}
graphSimplify(false);
}
AstNode* selectActivity(FileLine* flp, uint32_t acode, bool lvalue) {
return new AstArraySel(flp, new AstVarRef(flp, m_activityVscp, lvalue), acode);
}
void createActivityFlags() {
// Assign final activity numbers
m_activityNumber = assignactivityNumbers();
// Create an array of bytes, not a bit vector, as they can be set
// atomically by mtasks, and are cheaper to set (not need for
// read-modify-write on the C type), and the speed of the tracing code
// is the same on largish designs.
FileLine* const flp = m_topScopep->fileline();
AstNodeDType* const newScalarDtp = new AstBasicDType(flp, VFlagLogicPacked(), 1);
v3Global.rootp()->typeTablep()->addTypesp(newScalarDtp);
AstRange* const newArange = new AstRange(flp, VNumRange(m_activityNumber - 1, 0, false));
AstNodeDType* const newArrDtp = new AstUnpackArrayDType(flp, newScalarDtp, newArange);
v3Global.rootp()->typeTablep()->addTypesp(newArrDtp);
AstVar* const newvarp
= new AstVar(flp, AstVarType::MODULETEMP, "__Vm_traceActivity", newArrDtp);
m_topModp->addStmtp(newvarp);
AstVarScope* const newvscp = new AstVarScope(flp, m_topScopep, newvarp);
m_topScopep->addVarp(newvscp);
m_activityVscp = newvscp;
// Insert activity setter
// Insert activity setters
for (const V3GraphVertex* itp = m_graph.verticesBeginp(); itp;
itp = itp->verticesNextp()) {
if (const TraceActivityVertex* const vvertexp
if (const TraceActivityVertex* const vtxp
= dynamic_cast<const TraceActivityVertex*>(itp)) {
if (!vvertexp->activityAlways()) {
FileLine* const fl = vvertexp->insertp()->fileline();
const uint32_t acode = vvertexp->activityCode();
vvertexp->insertp()->addNextHere(
new AstAssign(fl, selectActivity(fl, acode, true),
new AstConst(fl, AstConst::LogicTrue())));
if (!vtxp->activityAlways()) {
FileLine* const fl = vtxp->insertp()->fileline();
const uint32_t acode = vtxp->activityCode();
AstAssign* const setterp
= new AstAssign(fl, selectActivity(fl, acode, true),
new AstConst(fl, AstConst::LogicTrue()));
if (AstCCall* const callp = VN_CAST(vtxp->insertp(), CCall)) {
callp->addNextHere(setterp);
} else if (AstCFunc* const funcp = VN_CAST(vtxp->insertp(), CFunc)) {
funcp->addStmtsp(setterp);
} else {
vtxp->insertp()->v3fatalSrc("Bad trace activity vertex");
}
}
}
}
@@ -437,49 +510,6 @@ private:
}
}
void sortTraces(TraceVec& traces, uint32_t& nFullCodes, uint32_t& nChgCodes) {
// We will split functions such that each have to dump roughly the same amount of data
// for this we need to keep tack of the number of codes used by the trace functions.
// Populate sort structure
for (const V3GraphVertex* itp = m_graph.verticesBeginp(); itp;
itp = itp->verticesNextp()) {
if (const TraceTraceVertex* const vtxp = dynamic_cast<const TraceTraceVertex*>(itp)) {
ActCodeSet actset;
UINFO(9, " Add to sort: " << vtxp << endl);
if (debug() >= 9) vtxp->nodep()->dumpTree(cout, "- trnode: ");
for (const V3GraphEdge* edgep = vtxp->inBeginp(); edgep;
edgep = edgep->inNextp()) {
const TraceActivityVertex* const cfvertexp
= dynamic_cast<const TraceActivityVertex*>(edgep->fromp());
UASSERT_OBJ(cfvertexp, vtxp->nodep(),
"Should have been function pointing to this trace");
UINFO(9, " Activity: " << cfvertexp << endl);
if (cfvertexp->activityAlways()) {
// If code 0, we always trace; ignore other codes
actset.clear();
actset.insert(TraceActivityVertex::ACTIVITY_ALWAYS);
break;
} else {
actset.insert(cfvertexp->activityCode());
}
}
// Count nodes
if (!vtxp->duplicatep()) {
const uint32_t inc = vtxp->nodep()->codeInc();
nFullCodes += inc;
if (!actset.empty()) nChgCodes += inc;
}
// If a trace doesn't have activity, it's constant, and we
// don't need to track changes on it.
// We put constants and non-changers last, as then the
// prevvalue vector is more compacted
if (actset.empty()) actset.insert(TraceActivityVertex::ACTIVITY_NEVER);
traces.insert(make_pair(actset, vtxp));
}
}
}
void createFullTraceFunction(const TraceVec& traces, uint32_t nAllCodes, uint32_t parallelism,
AstCFunc* regFuncp) {
const int splitLimit = v3Global.opt.outputSplitCTrace() ? v3Global.opt.outputSplitCTrace()
@@ -633,29 +663,33 @@ private:
new AstCStmt(m_topScopep->fileline(), string("vlSymsp->__Vm_activity = false;\n")));
// Clear fine grained activity flags
if (v3Global.opt.mtasks()) {
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < m_activityNumber; ++i) {
AstNode* const clrp = new AstAssign(fl, selectActivity(fl, i, true),
new AstConst(fl, AstConst::LogicFalse()));
cleanupFuncp->addStmtsp(clrp);
}
} else {
AstNode* const clrp = new AstAssign(
fl, new AstVarRef(fl, m_activityVscp, true),
new AstConst(fl, AstConst::WidthedValue(), m_activityVscp->width(), 0));
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < m_activityNumber; ++i) {
AstNode* const clrp = new AstAssign(fl, selectActivity(fl, i, true),
new AstConst(fl, AstConst::LogicFalse()));
cleanupFuncp->addStmtsp(clrp);
}
}
void createTraceFunctions() {
// Form a sorted list of the traces we are interested in
UINFO(9, "Making trees\n");
// Detect and remove duplicate values
detectDuplicates();
// Simplify & optimize the graph
if (debug() >= 6) m_graph.dumpDotFilePrefixed("trace_pre");
graphSimplify(true);
if (debug() >= 6) m_graph.dumpDotFilePrefixed("trace_simplified");
graphOptimize();
if (debug() >= 6) m_graph.dumpDotFilePrefixed("trace_optimized");
// Create the fine grained activity flags
createActivityFlags();
// Form a sorted list of the traces we are interested in
TraceVec traces; // The sorted traces
// We will split functions such that each have to dump roughly the same amount of data
// for this we need to keep tack of the number of codes used by the trace functions.
uint32_t nFullCodes = 0; // Number of non-duplicate codes (need to go into full* dump)
uint32_t nChgCodes = 0; // Number of non-consant codes (need to go in to chg* dump)
// Sort the traces
sortTraces(traces, nFullCodes, nChgCodes);
UINFO(5, "nFullCodes: " << nFullCodes << " nChgCodes: " << nChgCodes << endl);
@@ -683,7 +717,8 @@ private:
// Create the incremental dump functions
createChgTraceFunctions(traces, nChgCodes, parallelism, regFuncp);
// Remove refs to traced values from TraceDecl nodes, these have now moved under TraceInc
// Remove refs to traced values from TraceDecl nodes, these have now moved under
// TraceInc
for (TraceVec::iterator it = traces.begin(); it != traces.end(); ++it) {
AstNode* const valuep = it->second->nodep()->valuep();
valuep->unlinkFrBack();
@@ -726,18 +761,6 @@ private:
// Add vertexes for all CFUNCs, and edges to VARs the func sets
m_finding = true;
iterateChildren(nodep);
m_finding = false;
// Detect and remove duplicate values
detectDuplicates();
// Simplify it
if (debug() >= 6) m_graph.dumpDotFilePrefixed("trace_pre");
graphSimplify();
if (debug() >= 6) m_graph.dumpDotFilePrefixed("trace_opt");
// Create the activity flags
assignActivity();
// Create the trace functions and insert them into the tree
createTraceFunctions();
@@ -774,16 +797,10 @@ private:
virtual void visit(AstCFunc* nodep) VL_OVERRIDE {
UINFO(8, " CFUNC " << nodep << endl);
V3GraphVertex* const funcVtxp = getCFuncVertexp(nodep);
if (!m_finding) { // If public, we need a unique activity code to allow for sets directly
// in this func
if (!m_finding) { // If public, we need a unique activity code to allow for sets
// directly in this func
if (nodep->funcPublic() || nodep->dpiExport() || nodep == v3Global.rootp()->evalp()) {
// Need a non-null place to remember to later add a statement; make one
if (!nodep->stmtsp()) {
nodep->addStmtsp(
new AstComment(nodep->fileline(), "Tracing activity check", true));
}
V3GraphVertex* const activityVtxp
= getActivityVertexp(nodep->stmtsp(), nodep->slow());
V3GraphVertex* const activityVtxp = getActivityVertexp(nodep, nodep->slow());
new V3GraphEdge(&m_graph, activityVtxp, funcVtxp, 1);
}
}
test_regress/t/t_order_clkinst.out
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@@ -72,5 +72,5 @@ b00000011 $
#35
0/
#40
b00000100 $
1/
b00000100 $
test_regress/t/t_trace_timescale.out
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@@ -67,5 +67,5 @@ b00000000000000000000000000001010 #
#105
0+
#110
b00000000000000000000000000001011 #
1+
b00000000000000000000000000001011 #
test_regress/t/t_trace_two_dump_cc.out
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@@ -100,6 +100,6 @@ b00000000000000000000000000001011 +
03
#110
#110
13
b00000000000000000000000000001011 #
b00000000000000000000000000001100 +
13
test_regress/t/t_trace_two_hdr_sc.out
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@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ r0.8999999999999999 F
0>
#100000
1#
1>
b00000000000000000000000000001011 +
b00000000000000000000000000001100 3
1>
r0.9999999999999999 F
test_regress/t/t_trace_two_port_cc.out
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@@ -100,6 +100,6 @@ b00000000000000000000000000001011 +
03
#110
#110
13
b00000000000000000000000000001011 #
b00000000000000000000000000001100 +
13