unicorn/qemu/include/exec/tb-hash.h
Emilio G. Cota ae3e22a689
tb hash: hash phys_pc, pc, and flags with xxhash
For some workloads such as arm bootup, tb_phys_hash is performance-critical.
The is due to the high frequency of accesses to the hash table, originated
by (frequent) TLB flushes that wipe out the cpu-private tb_jmp_cache's.
More info:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-03/msg05098.html

To dig further into this I modified an arm image booting debian jessie to
immediately shut down after boot. Analysis revealed that quite a bit of time
is unnecessarily spent in tb_phys_hash: the cause is poor hashing that
results in very uneven loading of chains in the hash table's buckets;
the longest observed chain had ~550 elements.

The appended addresses this with two changes:

1) Use xxhash as the hash table's hash function. xxhash is a fast,
high-quality hashing function.

2) Feed the hashing function with not just tb_phys, but also pc and flags.

This improves performance over using just tb_phys for hashing, since that
resulted in some hash buckets having many TB's, while others getting very few;
with these changes, the longest observed chain on a single hash bucket is
brought down from ~550 to ~40.

Tests show that the other element checked for in tb_find_physical,
cs_base, is always a match when tb_phys+pc+flags are a match,
so hashing cs_base is wasteful. It could be that this is an ARM-only
thing, though. UPDATE:
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:41:43 -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> The cs_base field is only used by i386 (in 16-bit modes), and sparc (for a TB
> consisting of only a delay slot).
> It may well still turn out to be reasonable to ignore cs_base for hashing.

BTW, after this change the hash table should not be called "tb_hash_phys"
anymore; this is addressed later in this series.

This change gives consistent bootup time improvements. I tested two
host machines:
- Intel Xeon E5-2690: 11.6% less time
- Intel i7-4790K: 19.2% less time

Increasing the number of hash buckets yields further improvements. However,
using a larger, fixed number of buckets can degrade performance for other
workloads that do not translate as many blocks (600K+ for debian-jessie arm
bootup). This is dealt with later in this series.

Backports commit 42bd32287f3a18d823f2258b813824a39ed7c6d9 from qemu
2018-02-24 18:00:14 -05:00

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/*
* internal execution defines for qemu
*
* Copyright (c) 2003 Fabrice Bellard
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#ifndef EXEC_TB_HASH
#define EXEC_TB_HASH
#include "exec/exec-all.h"
#include "exec/tb-hash-xx.h"
/* Only the bottom TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS of the jump cache hash bits vary for
addresses on the same page. The top bits are the same. This allows
TLB invalidation to quickly clear a subset of the hash table. */
#define TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS (TB_JMP_CACHE_BITS / 2)
#define TB_JMP_PAGE_SIZE (1 << TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS)
#define TB_JMP_ADDR_MASK (TB_JMP_PAGE_SIZE - 1)
#define TB_JMP_PAGE_MASK (TB_JMP_CACHE_SIZE - TB_JMP_PAGE_SIZE)
static inline unsigned int tb_jmp_cache_hash_page(target_ulong pc)
{
target_ulong tmp;
tmp = pc ^ (pc >> (TARGET_PAGE_BITS - TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS));
return (tmp >> (TARGET_PAGE_BITS - TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS)) & TB_JMP_PAGE_MASK;
}
static inline unsigned int tb_jmp_cache_hash_func(target_ulong pc)
{
target_ulong tmp;
tmp = pc ^ (pc >> (TARGET_PAGE_BITS - TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS));
return (((tmp >> (TARGET_PAGE_BITS - TB_JMP_PAGE_BITS)) & TB_JMP_PAGE_MASK)
| (tmp & TB_JMP_ADDR_MASK));
}
static inline
uint32_t tb_hash_func(tb_page_addr_t phys_pc, target_ulong pc, uint32_t flags)
{
return tb_hash_func5(phys_pc, pc, flags) & (CODE_GEN_PHYS_HASH_SIZE - 1);
}
#endif