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[Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 5/5] cputlb: dynamically resize TLBs based on use r


From: Emilio G. Cota
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 5/5] cputlb: dynamically resize TLBs based on use rate
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 19:27:56 -0400

Perform the resizing only on flushes, otherwise we'd
have to take a perf hit by either rehashing the array
or unnecessarily flushing it.

We grow the array aggressively, and reduce the size more
slowly. This accommodates mixed workloads, where some
processes might be memory-heavy while others are not.

As the following experiments show, this a net perf gain,
particularly for memory-heavy workloads. Experiments
are run on an Intel i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz.

1. System boot + shudown, debian aarch64:

- Before (tb-lock-v3):
 Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 0 ../img/aarch64/die.sh' (10 runs):

       7469.363393      task-clock (msec)         #    0.998 CPUs utilized      
      ( +-  0.07% )
    31,507,707,190      cycles                    #    4.218 GHz                
      ( +-  0.07% )
    57,101,577,452      instructions              #    1.81  insns per cycle    
      ( +-  0.08% )
    10,265,531,804      branches                  # 1374.352 M/sec              
      ( +-  0.07% )
       173,020,681      branch-misses             #    1.69% of all branches    
      ( +-  0.10% )

       7.483359063 seconds time elapsed                                         
 ( +-  0.08% )

- After:
 Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 0 ../img/aarch64/die.sh' (10 runs):

       7185.036730      task-clock (msec)         #    0.999 CPUs utilized      
      ( +-  0.11% )
    30,303,501,143      cycles                    #    4.218 GHz                
      ( +-  0.11% )
    54,198,386,487      instructions              #    1.79  insns per cycle    
      ( +-  0.08% )
     9,726,518,945      branches                  # 1353.719 M/sec              
      ( +-  0.08% )
       167,082,307      branch-misses             #    1.72% of all branches    
      ( +-  0.08% )

       7.195597842 seconds time elapsed                                         
 ( +-  0.11% )

That is, a 3.8% improvement.

2. System boot + shutdown, ubuntu 18.04 x86_64:

- Before (tb-lock-v3):
Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 0 ../img/x86_64/ubuntu-die.sh 
-nographic' (2 runs):

      49971.036482      task-clock (msec)         #    0.999 CPUs utilized      
      ( +-  1.62% )
   210,766,077,140      cycles                    #    4.218 GHz                
      ( +-  1.63% )
   428,829,830,790      instructions              #    2.03  insns per cycle    
      ( +-  0.75% )
    77,313,384,038      branches                  # 1547.164 M/sec              
      ( +-  0.54% )
       835,610,706      branch-misses             #    1.08% of all branches    
      ( +-  2.97% )

      50.003855102 seconds time elapsed                                         
 ( +-  1.61% )

- After:
 Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 0 ../img/x86_64/ubuntu-die.sh 
-nographic' (2 runs):

      50118.124477      task-clock (msec)         #    0.999 CPUs utilized      
      ( +-  4.30% )
           132,396      context-switches          #    0.003 M/sec              
      ( +-  1.20% )
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec              
      ( +-100.00% )
           167,754      page-faults               #    0.003 M/sec              
      ( +-  0.06% )
   211,414,701,601      cycles                    #    4.218 GHz                
      ( +-  4.30% )
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend
   431,618,818,597      instructions              #    2.04  insns per cycle    
      ( +-  6.40% )
    80,197,256,524      branches                  # 1600.165 M/sec              
      ( +-  8.59% )
       794,830,352      branch-misses             #    0.99% of all branches    
      ( +-  2.05% )

      50.177077175 seconds time elapsed                                         
 ( +-  4.23% )

No improvement (within noise range).

3. x86_64 SPEC06int:
                              SPEC06int (test set)
                         [ Y axis: speedup over master ]
  8 +-+--+----+----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----+----+--+-+
    |                                                                       |
    |                                                   tlb-lock-v3         |
  7 +-+..................$$$...........................+indirection       +-+
    |                    $ $                              +resizing         |
    |                    $ $                                                |
  6 +-+..................$.$..............................................+-+
    |                    $ $                                                |
    |                    $ $                                                |
  5 +-+..................$.$..............................................+-+
    |                    $ $                                                |
    |                    $ $                                                |
  4 +-+..................$.$..............................................+-+
    |                    $ $                                                |
    |          +++       $ $                                                |
  3 +-+........$$+.......$.$..............................................+-+
    |          $$        $ $                                                |
    |          $$        $ $                                 $$$            |
  2 +-+........$$........$.$.................................$.$..........+-+
    |          $$        $ $                                 $ $       +$$  |
    |          $$   $$+  $ $  $$$       +$$                  $ $  $$$   $$  |
  1 +-+***#$***#$+**#$+**#+$**#+$**##$**##$***#$***#$+**#$+**#+$**#+$**##$+-+
    |  * *#$* *#$ **#$ **# $**# $** #$** #$* *#$* *#$ **#$ **# $**# $** #$  |
    |  * *#$* *#$ **#$ **# $**# $** #$** #$* *#$* *#$ **#$ **# $**# $** #$  |
  0 +-+***#$***#$-**#$-**#$$**#$$**##$**##$***#$***#$-**#$-**#$$**#$$**##$+-+
     401.bzi403.gc429445.g456.h462.libq464.h471.omne4483.xalancbgeomean
png: https://imgur.com/a/b1wn3wc

That is, a 1.53x average speedup over master, with a max speedup of 7.13x.

Note that "indirection" (i.e. the first patch in this series) incurs
no overhead, on average.

To conclude, here is a different look at the SPEC06int results, using
linux-user as the baseline and comparing master and this series ("tlb-dyn"):

            Softmmu slowdown vs. linux-user for SPEC06int (test set)
                    [ Y axis: slowdown over linux-user ]
  14 +-+--+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+----+--+-+
     |                                                                      |
     |                                                       master         |
  12 +-+...............+**..................................tlb-dyn.......+-+
     |                  **                                                  |
     |                  **                                                  |
     |                  **                                                  |
  10 +-+................**................................................+-+
     |                  **                                                  |
     |                  **                                                  |
   8 +-+................**................................................+-+
     |                  **                                                  |
     |                  **                                                  |
     |                  **                                                  |
   6 +-+................**................................................+-+
     |       ***        **                                                  |
     |       * *        **                                                  |
   4 +-+.....*.*........**.................................***............+-+
     |       * *        **                                 * *              |
     |       * *  +++   **             ***            ***  * *  ***  ***    |
     |       * *  +**++ **   **##      *+*#      ***  * *#+* *  * *##* *    |
   2 +-+.....*.*##.**##.**##.**.#.**##.*+*#.***#.*+*#.*.*#.*.*#+*.*.#*.*##+-+
     |++***##*+*+#+**+#+**+#+**+#+**+#+*+*#+*+*#+*+*#+*+*#+*+*#+*+*+#*+*+#++|
     |  * * #* * # ** # ** # ** # ** # * *# * *# * *# * *# * *# * * #* * #  |
   0 +-+***##***##-**##-**##-**##-**##-***#-***#-***#-***#-***#-***##***##+-+
      401.bzi403.g429445.g456.hm462.libq464.h471.omn4483.xalancbgeomean

png: https://imgur.com/a/eXkjMCE

After this series, we bring down the average softmmu overhead
from 2.77x to 1.80x, with a maximum slowdown of 2.48x (omnetpp).

Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <address@hidden>
---
 include/exec/cpu-defs.h | 39 +++++++++------------------------------
 accel/tcg/cputlb.c      | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/exec/cpu-defs.h b/include/exec/cpu-defs.h
index 56f1887c7f..d4af0b2a2d 100644
--- a/include/exec/cpu-defs.h
+++ b/include/exec/cpu-defs.h
@@ -67,37 +67,15 @@ typedef uint64_t target_ulong;
 #define CPU_TLB_ENTRY_BITS 5
 #endif
 
-/* TCG_TARGET_TLB_DISPLACEMENT_BITS is used in CPU_TLB_BITS to ensure that
- * the TLB is not unnecessarily small, but still small enough for the
- * TLB lookup instruction sequence used by the TCG target.
- *
- * TCG will have to generate an operand as large as the distance between
- * env and the tlb_table[NB_MMU_MODES - 1][0].addend.  For simplicity,
- * the TCG targets just round everything up to the next power of two, and
- * count bits.  This works because: 1) the size of each TLB is a largish
- * power of two, 2) and because the limit of the displacement is really close
- * to a power of two, 3) the offset of tlb_table[0][0] inside env is smaller
- * than the size of a TLB.
- *
- * For example, the maximum displacement 0xFFF0 on PPC and MIPS, but TCG
- * just says "the displacement is 16 bits".  TCG_TARGET_TLB_DISPLACEMENT_BITS
- * then ensures that tlb_table at least 0x8000 bytes large ("not unnecessarily
- * small": 2^15).  The operand then will come up smaller than 0xFFF0 without
- * any particular care, because the TLB for a single MMU mode is larger than
- * 0x10000-0xFFF0=16 bytes.  In the end, the maximum value of the operand
- * could be something like 0xC000 (the offset of the last TLB table) plus
- * 0x18 (the offset of the addend field in each TLB entry) plus the offset
- * of tlb_table inside env (which is non-trivial but not huge).
+#define MIN_CPU_TLB_BITS 6
+#define DEFAULT_CPU_TLB_BITS 8
+/*
+ * Assuming TARGET_PAGE_BITS==12, with 2**22 entries we can cover 2**(22+12) ==
+ * 2**34 == 16G of address space. This is roughly what one would expect a
+ * TLB to cover in a modern (as of 2018) x86_64 CPU. For instance, Intel
+ * Skylake's Level-2 STLB has 16 1G entries.
  */
-#define CPU_TLB_BITS                                             \
-    MIN(8,                                                       \
-        TCG_TARGET_TLB_DISPLACEMENT_BITS - CPU_TLB_ENTRY_BITS -  \
-        (NB_MMU_MODES <= 1 ? 0 :                                 \
-         NB_MMU_MODES <= 2 ? 1 :                                 \
-         NB_MMU_MODES <= 4 ? 2 :                                 \
-         NB_MMU_MODES <= 8 ? 3 : 4))
-
-#define CPU_TLB_SIZE (1 << CPU_TLB_BITS)
+#define MAX_CPU_TLB_BITS 22
 
 typedef struct CPUTLBEntry {
     /* bit TARGET_LONG_BITS to TARGET_PAGE_BITS : virtual address
@@ -143,6 +121,7 @@ typedef struct CPUIOTLBEntry {
 
 typedef struct CPUTLBDesc {
     size_t n_used_entries;
+    size_t n_flushes_low_rate;
 } CPUTLBDesc;
 
 #define CPU_COMMON_TLB  \
diff --git a/accel/tcg/cputlb.c b/accel/tcg/cputlb.c
index 11d6060eb0..5ebfa4fbb5 100644
--- a/accel/tcg/cputlb.c
+++ b/accel/tcg/cputlb.c
@@ -80,9 +80,10 @@ void tlb_init(CPUState *cpu)
 
     qemu_spin_init(&env->tlb_lock);
     for (i = 0; i < NB_MMU_MODES; i++) {
-        size_t n_entries = CPU_TLB_SIZE;
+        size_t n_entries = 1 << DEFAULT_CPU_TLB_BITS;
 
         env->tlb_desc[i].n_used_entries = 0;
+        env->tlb_desc[i].n_flushes_low_rate = 0;
         env->tlb_mask[i] = (n_entries - 1) << CPU_TLB_ENTRY_BITS;
         env->tlb_table[i] = g_new(CPUTLBEntry, n_entries);
         env->iotlb[i] = g_new0(CPUIOTLBEntry, n_entries);
@@ -121,6 +122,40 @@ size_t tlb_flush_count(void)
     return count;
 }
 
+/* Call with tlb_lock held */
+static void tlb_mmu_resize_locked(CPUArchState *env, int mmu_idx)
+{
+    CPUTLBDesc *desc = &env->tlb_desc[mmu_idx];
+    size_t old_size = tlb_n_entries(env, mmu_idx);
+    size_t rate = desc->n_used_entries * 100 / old_size;
+    size_t new_size = old_size;
+
+    if (rate == 100) {
+        new_size = MIN(old_size << 2, 1 << MAX_CPU_TLB_BITS);
+    } else if (rate > 70) {
+        new_size = MIN(old_size << 1, 1 << MAX_CPU_TLB_BITS);
+    } else if (rate < 30) {
+        desc->n_flushes_low_rate++;
+        if (desc->n_flushes_low_rate == 100) {
+            new_size = MAX(old_size >> 1, 1 << MIN_CPU_TLB_BITS);
+            desc->n_flushes_low_rate = 0;
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (new_size == old_size) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    g_free(env->tlb_table[mmu_idx]);
+    g_free(env->iotlb[mmu_idx]);
+
+    /* desc->n_used_entries is cleared by the caller */
+    desc->n_flushes_low_rate = 0;
+    env->tlb_mask[mmu_idx] = (new_size - 1) << CPU_TLB_ENTRY_BITS;
+    env->tlb_table[mmu_idx] = g_new(CPUTLBEntry, new_size);
+    env->iotlb[mmu_idx] = g_new0(CPUIOTLBEntry, new_size);
+}
+
 /* This is OK because CPU architectures generally permit an
  * implementation to drop entries from the TLB at any time, so
  * flushing more entries than required is only an efficiency issue,
@@ -150,6 +185,7 @@ static void tlb_flush_nocheck(CPUState *cpu)
      */
     qemu_spin_lock(&env->tlb_lock);
     for (i = 0; i < NB_MMU_MODES; i++) {
+        tlb_mmu_resize_locked(env, i);
         memset(env->tlb_table[i], -1, sizeof_tlb(env, i));
         env->tlb_desc[i].n_used_entries = 0;
     }
@@ -213,6 +249,7 @@ static void tlb_flush_by_mmuidx_async_work(CPUState *cpu, 
run_on_cpu_data data)
         if (test_bit(mmu_idx, &mmu_idx_bitmask)) {
             tlb_debug("%d\n", mmu_idx);
 
+            tlb_mmu_resize_locked(env, mmu_idx);
             memset(env->tlb_table[mmu_idx], -1, sizeof_tlb(env, mmu_idx));
             memset(env->tlb_v_table[mmu_idx], -1, sizeof(env->tlb_v_table[0]));
             env->tlb_desc[mmu_idx].n_used_entries = 0;
-- 
2.17.1




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