Re: [PATCH 1/2] accel/tcg/plugin: export host insn size

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

"Wu, Fei" <fei2.wu@intel.com> writes:

> On 4/6/2023 3:46 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> 
>> Fei Wu <fei2.wu@intel.com> writes:
>> 
>>> The translation ratio of host to guest instruction count is one of the
>>> key performance factor of binary translation. TCG doesn't collect host
>>> instruction count at present, it does collect host instruction size
>>> instead, although they are not the same thing as instruction size might
>>> not be fixed, instruction size is still a valid estimation.
>> 
>> I'm not so sure about exposing this information to plugins because we
>> try to avoid leaking internal implementation details to plugins. Aside
>> from that the very act of instrumenting will increase the size of the
>> target buffer.
>> 
>> If your aim is to examine JIT efficiency what is wrong with the current
>> "info jit" that you can access via the HMP? Also I'm wondering if its
>> time to remove the #ifdefs from CONFIG_PROFILER because I doubt the
>> extra data it collects is that expensive.
>> 
> "info jit" collects the translation time expansion ratio, it doesn't
> distinguish between hot and cold blocks:
>     TB avg target size  14 max=1918 bytes
>     TB avg host size    287 bytes (expansion ratio: 19.7)
>
> My primary aim is to collect the runtime expansion ratio, so hot blocks
> weigh more than cold blocks. My concern is this series might not be the
> proper way to implement it, just as you mentioned in another reply.

See my reply to Richard but:

  Subject: [PATCH  v9 00/13] TCG code quality tracking and perf integration
  Date: Mon,  7 Oct 2019 16:28:26 +0100
  Message-Id: <20191007152839.30804-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

may be of interest?

>
> Thanks,
> Fei.
>
>> Richard, what do you think?
>> 
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Fei Wu <fei2.wu@intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>  accel/tcg/plugin-gen.c       | 1 +
>>>  include/qemu/plugin.h        | 2 ++
>>>  include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h   | 8 ++++++++
>>>  plugins/api.c                | 5 +++++
>>>  plugins/qemu-plugins.symbols | 1 +
>>>  5 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/accel/tcg/plugin-gen.c b/accel/tcg/plugin-gen.c
>>> index 5efb8db258..4a3ca8fa2f 100644
>>> --- a/accel/tcg/plugin-gen.c
>>> +++ b/accel/tcg/plugin-gen.c
>>> @@ -881,6 +881,7 @@ bool plugin_gen_tb_start(CPUState *cpu, const DisasContextBase *db,
>>>          ptb->haddr2 = NULL;
>>>          ptb->mem_only = mem_only;
>>>          ptb->mem_helper = false;
>>> +        ptb->host_insn_size = &db->tb->tc.size;
>>>  
>>>          plugin_gen_empty_callback(PLUGIN_GEN_FROM_TB);
>>>      }
>>> diff --git a/include/qemu/plugin.h b/include/qemu/plugin.h
>>> index bc0781cab8..b38fd139e1 100644
>>> --- a/include/qemu/plugin.h
>>> +++ b/include/qemu/plugin.h
>>> @@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ struct qemu_plugin_tb {
>>>      /* if set, the TB calls helpers that might access guest memory */
>>>      bool mem_helper;
>>>  
>>> +    uint64_t *host_insn_size;
>>> +
>>>      GArray *cbs[PLUGIN_N_CB_SUBTYPES];
>>>  };
>>>  
>>> diff --git a/include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h b/include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h
>>> index 50a9957279..2397574a21 100644
>>> --- a/include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h
>>> +++ b/include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h
>>> @@ -336,6 +336,14 @@ void qemu_plugin_register_vcpu_insn_exec_inline(struct qemu_plugin_insn *insn,
>>>   */
>>>  size_t qemu_plugin_tb_n_insns(const struct qemu_plugin_tb *tb);
>>>  
>>> +/**
>>> + * qemu_plugin_tb_n_insns() - query helper for host insns size in TB
>>> + * @tb: opaque handle to TB passed to callback
>>> + *
>>> + * Returns: address of host insns size of this block
>> 
>> If we went ahead with this we need to be very clear when you can call
>> this helper because the data will only be valid at certain points (which
>> is another argument against this).
>> 
>>> + */
>>> +void *qemu_plugin_tb_host_insn_size(const struct qemu_plugin_tb *tb);
>>> +
>>>  /**
>>>   * qemu_plugin_tb_vaddr() - query helper for vaddr of TB start
>>>   * @tb: opaque handle to TB passed to callback
>>> diff --git a/plugins/api.c b/plugins/api.c
>>> index 2078b16edb..0d70cb1f0f 100644
>>> --- a/plugins/api.c
>>> +++ b/plugins/api.c
>>> @@ -188,6 +188,11 @@ size_t qemu_plugin_tb_n_insns(const struct qemu_plugin_tb *tb)
>>>      return tb->n;
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> +void *qemu_plugin_tb_host_insn_size(const struct qemu_plugin_tb *tb)
>>> +{
>>> +    return tb->host_insn_size;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>  uint64_t qemu_plugin_tb_vaddr(const struct qemu_plugin_tb *tb)
>>>  {
>>>      return tb->vaddr;
>>> diff --git a/plugins/qemu-plugins.symbols b/plugins/qemu-plugins.symbols
>>> index 71f6c90549..3e92c3b8ba 100644
>>> --- a/plugins/qemu-plugins.symbols
>>> +++ b/plugins/qemu-plugins.symbols
>>> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
>>>    qemu_plugin_start_code;
>>>    qemu_plugin_tb_get_insn;
>>>    qemu_plugin_tb_n_insns;
>>> +  qemu_plugin_tb_host_insn_size;
>>>    qemu_plugin_tb_vaddr;
>>>    qemu_plugin_uninstall;
>>>    qemu_plugin_vcpu_for_each;
>> 
>> 


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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro