The goal of this patch is to maximize CPU utilization on multi-socket or high core count systems, so that parallel computations such as LLD/ThinLTO can use all hardware threads in the system. Before this patch, on Windows, a maximum of 64 hardware threads could be used at most, in some cases dispatched only on one CPU socket.
== Background ==
Windows doesn't have a flat cpu_set_t like Linux. Instead, it projects hardware CPUs (or NUMA nodes) to applications through a concept of "processor groups". A "processor" is the smallest unit of execution on a CPU, that is, an hyper-thread if SMT is active; a core otherwise. There's a limit of 32-bit processors on older 32-bit versions of Windows, which later was raised to 64-processors with 64-bit versions of Windows. This limit comes from the affinity mask, which historically is represented by the sizeof(void*). Consequently, the concept of "processor groups" was introduced for dealing with systems with more than 64 hyper-threads.
By default, the Windows OS assigns only one "processor group" to each starting application, in a round-robin manner. If the application wants to use more processors, it needs to programmatically enable it, by assigning threads to other "processor groups". This also means that affinity cannot cross "processor group" boundaries; one can only specify a "preferred" group on start-up, but the application is free to allocate more groups if it wants to.
This creates a peculiar situation, where newer CPUs like the AMD EPYC 7702P (64-cores, 128-hyperthreads) are projected by the OS as two (2) "processor groups". This means that by default, an application can only use half of the cores. This situation could only get worse in the years to come, as dies with more cores will appear on the market.
== The problem ==
The heavyweight_hardware_concurrency() API was introduced so that only *one hardware thread per core* was used. Once that API returns, that original intention is lost, only the number of threads is retained. Consider a situation, on Windows, where the system has 2 CPU sockets, 18 cores each, each core having 2 hyper-threads, for a total of 72 hyper-threads. Both heavyweight_hardware_concurrency() and hardware_concurrency() currently return 36, because on Windows they are simply wrappers over std:🧵:hardware_concurrency() -- which can only return processors from the current "processor group".
== The changes in this patch ==
To solve this situation, we capture (and retain) the initial intention until the point of usage, through a new ThreadPoolStrategy class. The number of threads to use is deferred as late as possible, until the moment where the std::threads are created (ThreadPool in the case of ThinLTO).
When using hardware_concurrency(), setting ThreadCount to 0 now means to use all the possible hardware CPU (SMT) threads. Providing a ThreadCount above to the maximum number of threads will have no effect, the maximum will be used instead.
The heavyweight_hardware_concurrency() is similar to hardware_concurrency(), except that only one thread per hardware *core* will be used.
When LLVM_ENABLE_THREADS is OFF, the threading APIs will always return 1, to ensure any caller loops will be exercised at least once.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71775
This is how it should've been and brings it more in line with
std::string_view. There should be no functional change here.
This is mostly mechanical from a custom clang-tidy check, with a lot of
manual fixups. It uncovers a lot of minor inefficiencies.
This doesn't actually modify StringRef yet, I'll do that in a follow-up.
Summary:
Reduce include dependencies by no longer including Pass.h from
DataLayout.h. That include seemed irrelevant to DataLayout, as
well as being irrelevant to several users of DataLayout.
Reviewers: rnk
Reviewed By: rnk
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, hiraditya, cfe-commits, llvm-commits
Tags: #clang, #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D69261
llvm-svn: 375436
Previously ExtBinary profile format only supports compression using zlib for
profile symbol list. In this patch, we extend the compression support to any
section. User can select some or all of the sections to compress. In an
experiment, for a 45M profile in ExtBinary format, compressing name table
reduced its size to 24M, and compressing all the sections reduced its size
to 11M.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68253
llvm-svn: 373914
or the size of the profile for profile in ExtBinary format.
Fix a test failure on Mac.
[SampleFDO] Expose an interface to return the size of a section or the
size of the profile for profile in ExtBinary format.
Sometimes we want to limit the size of the profile by stripping some functions
with low sample count or by stripping some function names with small text size
from profile symbol list. That requires the profile reader to have the
interfaces returning the size of a section or the size of total profile. The
patch add those interfaces.
At the same time, add some dump facility to show the size of each section.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67726
llvm-svn: 372478
of the profile for profile in ExtBinary format.
Sometimes we want to limit the size of the profile by stripping some functions
with low sample count or by stripping some function names with small text size
from profile symbol list. That requires the profile reader to have the
interfaces returning the size of a section or the size of total profile. The
patch add those interfaces.
At the same time, add some dump facility to show the size of each section.
llvm-svn: 372439
Add a mode in which profile read errors are not immediately treated as
fatal. In this mode, merging makes forward progress and reports failure
only if no inputs can be read.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D66985
llvm-svn: 370827
1. zlib::compress accept &size_t but the param is an uint64_t.
2. Some systems don't have zlib installed. Don't use compression by default.
llvm-svn: 370564
cold versus function being newly added.
This is the second half of https://reviews.llvm.org/D66374.
Profile symbol list is the collection of function symbols showing up in
the binary which generates the current profile. It is used to discriminate
function being cold versus function being newly added. Profile symbol list
is only added for profile with ExtBinary format.
During profile use compilation, when profile-sample-accurate is enabled,
a function without profile will be regarded as cold only when it is
contained in that list.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D66766
llvm-svn: 370563
This is a patch split from https://reviews.llvm.org/D66374. It tries to add
a new format of profile called ExtBinary. The format adds a section header
table to the profile and organize the profile in sections, so the future
extension like adding a new section or extending an existing section will be
easier while keeping backward compatiblity feasible.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D66513
llvm-svn: 369798
Now that we've moved to C++14, we no longer need the llvm::make_unique
implementation from STLExtras.h. This patch is a mechanical replacement
of (hopefully) all the llvm::make_unique instances across the monorepo.
llvm-svn: 369013
Currently llvm-profdata does not expect the same file name for the input profile
and the output profile.
>llvm-profdata merge A.profraw B.profraw -o B.profraw
The above command runs successfully but the resulted B.profraw is not correct.
This patch fixes the issue by moving the initialization of writer after loading
the profile.
For the show command, the following will report a confusing error of
"Empty raw profile file":
>llvm-profdata show B.profraw -o B.profraw
It's harder to fix as we need to output something before loading the input profile.
I don't think that a fix for this is worth the effort. I just make the error explicit for
the show command.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64360
llvm-svn: 365386
Add overlap functionality to llvm-profdata tool to compute the similarity
between two profile files.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60977
llvm-svn: 359612
Part 2 of CSPGO changes (mostly related to ProfileSummary).
Note that I use a default parameter in setProfileSummary() and getSummary().
This is to break the dependency in clang. I will make the parameter explicit
after changing clang in a separated patch.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54175
llvm-svn: 355131
Change the format type of Value to PRIu64 since it is a uint64_t.
The problem was detected on mips boards building 32-bit binaries,
where it was printing junk values and causing test failure.
Patch by Milos Stojanovic.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57583
llvm-svn: 353194
to reflect the new license.
We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the new license. We checked this carefully with the
Foundation's lawyer and we believe this is the correct approach.
Essentially, all code in the project is now made available by the LLVM
project under our new license, so you will see that the license headers
include that license only. Some of our contributors have contributed
code under our old license, and accordingly, we have retained a copy of
our old license notice in the top-level files in each project and
repository.
llvm-svn: 351636
This patch improves llvm-profdata show command:
(1) add -value-cutoff=<N> option: Show only those functions whose max count
values are greater or equal to N.
(2) add -list-below-cutoff option: Only output names of functions whose max
count value are below the cutoff.
(3) formats value-profile counts and prints out percentage.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56342
llvm-svn: 350673
In LTO or Thin-lto mode (though linker plugin), the module
names are of temp file names which are different for
different compilations. Using SourceFileName avoids the issue.
This should not change any functionality for current PGO as
all the current callers of getPGOFuncName() is before LTO.
llvm-svn: 350579
add a tool to generate symbol remapping files.
Summary:
The new tool llvm-cxxmap builds a symbol mapping table from a file containing
a description of partial equivalences to apply to mangled names and files
containing old and new symbol tables.
Reviewers: davidxl
Subscribers: mgorny, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51470
llvm-svn: 342168
Per LLVM's CommandGuide, llvm-profdata show -text is supposed to produce
textual output that can be passed as input to further llvm-profdata
invocations. This previously didn't work for two reasons:
1) -text was not sufficient to enable the machine-readable text format output;
instead, -text was effectively ignored if -counts was not also specified. (With
this patch, -counts is instead ignored if -text is specified, because the
machine-readable text format always includes counts.)
2) When the input data was an IR-level profile, the :ir marker was missing from
the output, resulting in a text format output that would not be usable as
profiling data due to function hash mismatches.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51188
llvm-svn: 340592
Name table occupies a big chunk of size in current binary format sample profile.
In order to reduce its size, the patch changes the sample writer/reader to
save/restore MD5Hash of names in the name table. Sample annotation phase will
also use MD5Hash of name to query samples accordingly.
Experiment shows compact binary format can reduce the size of sample profile by
2/3 compared with binary format generally.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47955
llvm-svn: 334447
We have a few functions that virtually all command wants to run on
process startup/shutdown. This patch adds InitLLVM class to do that
all at once, so that we don't need to copy-n-paste boilerplate code
to each llvm command's main() function.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45602
llvm-svn: 330046
But now include a check for CPU_COUNT so we still build on 10 year old
versions of glibc.
Original message:
Use sched_getaffinity instead of std:🧵:hardware_concurrency.
The issue with std:🧵:hardware_concurrency is that it forwards
to libc and some implementations (like glibc) don't take thread
affinity into consideration.
With this change a llvm program that can execute in only 2 cores will
use 2 threads, even if the machine has 32 cores.
This makes benchmarking a lot easier, but should also help if someone
doesn't want to use all cores for compilation for example.
llvm-svn: 314931
Summary:
This reverts D38481. The change breaks systems with older versions of glibc. It
injects a use of CPU_COUNT() from sched.h without checking to ensure that the
function exists first.
Reviewers:
Subscribers:
llvm-svn: 314922
The issue with std:🧵:hardware_concurrency is that it forwards
to libc and some implementations (like glibc) don't take thread
affinity into consideration.
With this change a llvm program that can execute in only 2 cores will
use 2 threads, even if the machine has 32 cores.
This makes benchmarking a lot easier, but should also help if someone
doesn't want to use all cores for compilation for example.
llvm-svn: 314809
Reduces llvm-profdata memory usage on a large profile from 7.8GB to 5.1GB.
The ProfData API now supports reporting all the errors/warnings rather
than only the first, though llvm-profdata ignores everything after the
first for now to preserve existing behavior. (if there's a desire for
other behavior, happy to implement that - but might be as well left for
a separate patch)
Reviewers: davidxl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35149
llvm-svn: 307516
The InstrProfWriter already stores the name and hash of the record in
the nested maps it uses for lookup while merging - this data is
duplicated in the value within the maps.
Refactor the InstrProfRecord to use a nested struct for the counters
themselves so that InstrProfWriter can use this nested struct alone
without the name or hash duplicated there.
This work is incomplete, but enough to demonstrate the value (around a
50% decrease in memory usage for a large test case (10GB -> 5GB)).
Though most of that decrease is probably from removing the
SoftInstrProfError as well, but I haven't implemented a replacement for
it yet. (it needs to go with the counters, because the operations on the
counters - merging, etc, are where the failures are - unlike the
name/hash which are totally unused by those counter-related operations
and thus easy to split out)
Ongoing discussion about removing SoftInstrProfError as a field of the
InstrProfRecord is happening on the thread that added it - including
the possibility of moving back towards an earlier version of that
proposed patch that passed SoftInstrProfError through the various APIs,
rather than as a member of InstrProfRecord.
Reviewers: davidxl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34838
llvm-svn: 307298
With PR33517, it became apparent that symbol table creation can fail
when presented with malformed inputs. This patch makes that sort of
error detectable, so llvm-cov etc. can fail more gracefully.
Specifically, we now check that function names within the symbol table
aren't empty.
Testing: check-{llvm,clang,profile}, some unit test updates.
llvm-svn: 305765
This patch adds the value profile support to profile the size parameter of
memory intrinsic calls: memcpy, memcmp, and memmov.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D28965
llvm-svn: 297897
Refactor the dumping function so that we can add other value profile kind easily.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30752
llvm-svn: 297399
llvm-profdata.cpp has the following include chain:
llvm/ProfileData/SampleProfReader.h
llvm/IR/Function.h
llvm/IR/Argument.h
llvm/IR/Attributes.h
llvm/IR/Attributes.gen
This means llvm-profdata needs to depend on intrinsics_gen.
llvm-svn: 287394
Profile runtime can generate an empty raw profile (when there is no function in
the shared library). This empty profile is treated as a text format profile. A
test format profile without the flag of "#IR" is thought to be a clang
generated profile. So in llvm profile merging, we will get a bogus warning of
"Merge IR generated profile with Clang generated profile."
The fix here is to skip the empty profile (when the buffer size is 0) for
profile merge.
Reviewers: vsk, davidxl
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D25687
llvm-svn: 284659
Alexandre Ganea