[llvm-dev] GSoC Proposal : Path Profiling Support

Snehasish Kumar via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Mar 16 14:03:52 PDT 2016


Hi David,

> Are the data below all collected when only one function is picked for
> instrumentation?

Yes, here is a list of the benchmarks and selected functions.

+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| blks            | _Z19BlkSchlsEqEuroNoDivfffffif
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| bodytrack       |
_ZN17ImageMeasurements11InsideErrorERK17ProjectedCylinderRK11BinaryImageRiS6_
               |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| bzip2           | BZ2_compressBlock
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ferret          | image_segment
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| fluidanimate    | _Z13ComputeForcesv
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| freqmine        |
_Z32FPArray_conditional_pattern_baseIhEiP7FP_treeiiT_
                      |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| gcc             | bitmap_operation
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| hmmer           | P7Viterbi
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| lbm             | LBM_performStreamCollide
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| mcf             | price_out_impl
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| mcf2000         | price_out_impl
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| namd            |
_ZN20ComputeNonbondedUtil26calc_pair_energy_fullelectEP9nonbonded
                      |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| povray          |
_ZN3povL24All_Sphere_IntersectionsEPNS_13Object_StructEPNS_10Ray_StructEPNS_13istack_structE
|
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| sjeng           | gen
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| soplex          | _ZN6soplex9CLUFactor16vSolveUrightNoNZEPdS1_Piid
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| sphinx          | vector_gautbl_eval_logs3
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| streamcluster   | _Z5pgainlP6PointsdPliP17pthread_barrier_t
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| swaptions       | _Z21HJM_Swaption_BlockingPddddddiidS_PS_llii
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| h264ref         | dct_luma_16x16
                                          |
+-----------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

> Do you have data when such manual selection is not done?

At the moment, I do not.

>
> thanks,
>
> David
>
>
>>
>> numpaths = Number of possible paths
>> epp+compile = Time taken to compute encoding, insert instrumentation and
>> compile to executable
>> compile = Time taken to compile to executable
>> execpaths = Number of paths dynamically executed
>> epp-exec-time = Execution time with instrumentation
>> exec-time = Normal execution time
>> epp-bin-size = Size of instrumented binary in bytes
>> bin-size = Size of binary
>> ** size of shared library in bytes = 598042
>>
>>
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | benchmark     | numpaths | epp+compile | compile   | execpaths |
>> epp-exec-time | exec-time | epp-bin-size | bin-size |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | blks          | 2        | 0m1.036s    | 0m1.008s  | 2         |
>> 0m3.643s      | 0m3.205s  | 155931       | 155459   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | bodytrack     | 29       | 0m4.907s    | 0m4.881s  | 5         |
>> 0m14.786s     | 0m1.943s  | 2125256      | 2124224  |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | bzip2         | 60       | 0m1.274s    | 0m1.268s  | 3         |
>> 0m9.441s      | 0m9.624s  | 259125       | 258477   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | ferret        | 360921   | 0m26.208s   | 0m26.102s | 40        |
>> 0m10.342s     | 0m6.224s  | 8342571      | 8338588  |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | fluidanimate  | 384117   | 0m0.895s    | 0m0.869s  | 88        |
>> 0m56.631s     | 0m1.294s  | 202702       | 197878   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | freqmine      | 45       | 0m1.220s    | 0m1.214s  | 18        |
>> 0m22.150s     | 0m5.515s  | 278615       | 277656   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | gcc           | 6026     | 0m31.941s   | 0m31.327s | 125       |
>> 1m30.139s     | 0m36.601s | 6991413      | 6991245  |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | hmmer         | 1882     | 0m3.193s    | 0m3.232s  | 65        |
>> 0m58.911s     | 0m2.474s  | 744510       | 742806   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | mcf           | 230      | 0m0.838s    | 0m0.830s  | 10        |
>> 0m11.097s     | 0m3.074s  | 162680       | 161736   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | mcf2000       | 1155     | 0m0.859s    | 0m0.853s  | 26        |
>> 0m24.169s     | 0m4.625s  | 166092       | 165213   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | povray        | 17       | 0m8.543s    | 0m8.552s  | 4         |
>> 9m24.562s     | 5m39.295s | 2388152      | 2387960  |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | sjeng         | 158740   | 0m1.648s    | 0m1.637s  | 280       |
>> 0m20.786s     | 0m5.229s  | 368841       | 368009   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | soplex        | 30       | 0m4.849s    | 0m4.848s  | 24        |
>> 7m28.151s     | 4m10.813s | 1244775      | 1242063  |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | sphinx        | 26       | 0m2.212s    | 0m2.198s  | 5         |
>> 1m36.291s     | 0m13.811s | 543534       | 543358   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | streamcluster | 21121728 | 0m0.947s    | 0m0.908s  | 33        |
>> 0m50.212s     | 0m5.986s  | 191981       | 185438   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | swaptions     | 20655    | 0m0.965s    | 0m0.950s  | 13        |
>> 0m0.263s      | 0m0.178s  | 193841       | 184274   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | h264ref       | 24130    | 0m4.278s    | 0m4.272s  | 76        |
>> 3m26.701s     | 3m4.461s  | 816660       | 812396   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | lbm           | 8        | 0m0.824s    | 0m0.815s  | 5         |
>> 6m29.685s     | 1m39.180s | 150871       | 150327   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>> | namd          | 59598954 | 0m4.124s    | 0m4.139s  | 43        |
>> 18m36.447s    | 6m50.288s | 925863       | 925271   |
>>
>> +---------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------+----------+
>>
>>
>>
>> > > Open Issues :
>> > > + Update PathProfileInfo on CFG transformations ?
>>
>> > Could you clarify what this means?
>>
>> Changing the control flow graph of a routine may invalidate collected path
>> profiles. For example, splitting a block with an unconditional branch does
>> not change the profile, but introducing a conditional branch invalidates the
>> profile. The issue I would like to address is which transformations should
>> we allow as safe transformations and how should we update the internal path
>> profile data structures if we allow this at all.
>>
>> > > + Verify with PGOEdge info ?
>>
>> > Ditto.
>>
>> Verification with PGOEdge info implies that the edge frequencies derived
>> from path profiles and via instrprof should be equal.
>>
>> > > + Handle setjmp, longjmp, early program termination, noreturn calls
>>
>> > How do you handle indirect calls?
>>
>> No special handling of indirect calls as path profiles are
>> intra-procedural and control returns to same basic block
>> after call in the general case. For the above mentioned cases, control may
>> not return.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Snehasish
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