From 42bd32287f3a18d823f2258b813824a39ed7c6d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Emilio G. Cota" Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:55:25 -0400 Subject: tb hash: hash phys_pc, pc, and flags with xxhash MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. Reviewed-by: Sergey Fedorov Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota Message-Id: <1465412133-3029-8-git-send-email-cota@braap.org> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson --- cpu-exec.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'cpu-exec.c') diff --git a/cpu-exec.c b/cpu-exec.c index f7c642f4a9..b9e294c0e6 100644 --- a/cpu-exec.c +++ b/cpu-exec.c @@ -232,13 +232,13 @@ static TranslationBlock *tb_find_physical(CPUState *cpu, { CPUArchState *env = (CPUArchState *)cpu->env_ptr; TranslationBlock *tb, **tb_hash_head, **ptb1; - unsigned int h; + uint32_t h; tb_page_addr_t phys_pc, phys_page1; /* find translated block using physical mappings */ phys_pc = get_page_addr_code(env, pc); phys_page1 = phys_pc & TARGET_PAGE_MASK; - h = tb_phys_hash_func(phys_pc); + h = tb_hash_func(phys_pc, pc, flags); /* Start at head of the hash entry */ ptb1 = tb_hash_head = &tcg_ctx.tb_ctx.tb_phys_hash[h]; -- cgit v1.2.3