On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 2:42 PM Maxim Kuvyrkov
<maxim.kuvyr...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 20, 2023, at 17:09, Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 1:08 PM Maxim Kuvyrkov
> > <maxim.kuvyr...@linaro.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> This patch avoids sched-deps.cc:find_inc() creating exponential number
> >> of dependencies, which become memory and compilation time hogs.
> >> Consider example (simplified from PR96388) ...
> >> ===
> >> sp=sp-4 // sp_insnA
> >> mem_insnA1[sp+A1]
> >> ...
> >> mem_insnAN[sp+AN]
> >> sp=sp-4 // sp_insnB
> >> mem_insnB1[sp+B1]
> >> ...
> >> mem_insnBM[sp+BM]
> >> ===
> >> ... in this example find_modifiable_mems() will arrange for mem_insnA*
> >> to be able to pass sp_insnA, and, while doing this, will create
> >> dependencies between all mem_insnA*s and sp_insnB -- because sp_insnB
> >> is a consumer of sp_insnA.  After this sp_insnB will have N new
> >> backward dependencies.
> >> Then find_modifiable_mems() gets to mem_insnB*s and starts to create
> >> N new dependencies for _every_ mem_insnB*.  This gets us N*M new
> >> dependencies.
> >>
> >> In PR96833's testcase N and M are 10k-15k, which causes RAM usage of
> >> 30GB and compilation time of 30 minutes, with sched2 accounting for
> >> 95% of both metrics.  After this patch the RAM usage is down to 1GB
> >> and compilation time is down to 3-4 minutes, with sched2 no longer
> >> standing out on -ftime-report or memory usage.
> >>
> >> gcc/ChangeLog:
> >>
> >>        PR rtl-optimization/96388
> >>        PR rtl-optimization/111554
> >>        * sched-deps.cc (find_inc): Avoid exponential behavior.
> >> ---
> >> gcc/sched-deps.cc | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >> 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/gcc/sched-deps.cc b/gcc/sched-deps.cc
> >> index c23218890f3..397bb9fd462 100644
> >> --- a/gcc/sched-deps.cc
> >> +++ b/gcc/sched-deps.cc
> >> @@ -4779,24 +4779,59 @@ parse_add_or_inc (struct mem_inc_info *mii, 
> >> rtx_insn *insn, bool before_mem)
> >> /* Once a suitable mem reference has been found and the corresponding data
> >>    in MII has been filled in, this function is called to find a suitable
> >>    add or inc insn involving the register we found in the memory
> >> -   reference.  */
> >> +   reference.
> >> +   If successful, this function will create additional dependencies 
> >> between
> >> +   - mii->inc_insn's producers and mii->mem_insn as a consumer (if 
> >> backwards)
> >> +   - mii->inc_insn's consumers and mii->mem_insn as a producer (if 
> >> !backwards).
> >> +*/
> >>
> >> static bool
> >> find_inc (struct mem_inc_info *mii, bool backwards)
> >> {
> >>   sd_iterator_def sd_it;
> >>   dep_t dep;
> >> +  sd_list_types_def mem_deps = backwards ? SD_LIST_HARD_BACK : 
> >> SD_LIST_FORW;
> >> +  int n_mem_deps = sd_lists_size (mii->mem_insn, mem_deps);
> >>
> >> -  sd_it = sd_iterator_start (mii->mem_insn,
> >> -                            backwards ? SD_LIST_HARD_BACK : SD_LIST_FORW);
> >> +  sd_it = sd_iterator_start (mii->mem_insn, mem_deps);
> >>   while (sd_iterator_cond (&sd_it, &dep))
> >>     {
> >>       dep_node_t node = DEP_LINK_NODE (*sd_it.linkp);
> >>       rtx_insn *pro = DEP_PRO (dep);
> >>       rtx_insn *con = DEP_CON (dep);
> >> -      rtx_insn *inc_cand = backwards ? pro : con;
> >> +      rtx_insn *inc_cand;
> >> +      int n_inc_deps;
> >> +
> >> +      if (backwards)
> >> +       {
> >> +         inc_cand = pro;
> >> +         n_inc_deps = sd_lists_size (inc_cand, SD_LIST_BACK);
> >> +       }
> >> +      else
> >> +       {
> >> +         inc_cand = con;
> >> +         n_inc_deps = sd_lists_size (inc_cand, SD_LIST_FORW);
> >> +       }
> >> +
> >> +      /* In the FOR_EACH_DEP loop below we will create additional 
> >> n_inc_deps
> >> +        for mem_insn.  This by itself is not a problem, since each 
> >> mem_insn
> >> +        will have only a few inc_insns associated with it.  However, if
> >> +        we consider that a single inc_insn may have a lot of mem_insns, 
> >> AND,
> >> +        on top of that, a few other inc_insns associated with it --
> >> +        those _other inc_insns_ will get (n_mem_deps * number of MEM 
> >> insns)
> >> +        dependencies created for them.  This may cause an exponential
> >> +        growth of memory usage and scheduling time.
> >> +        See PR96388 for details.
> >> +        We [heuristically] use n_inc_deps as a proxy for the number of MEM
> >> +        insns, and drop opportunities for breaking modifiable_mem 
> >> dependencies
> >> +        when dependency lists grow beyond reasonable size.  */
> >> +      if (n_mem_deps * n_inc_deps
> >> +         >= param_max_pending_list_length * param_max_pending_list_length)
> >> +       goto next;
> >> +
> >>       if (DEP_NONREG (dep) || DEP_MULTIPLE (dep))
> >
> > it looks like this check is a lot cheaper than computing sd_lists_size so
> > can we keep that first?  sd_lists_size might be even more expensive
> > than parse_add_or_inc,
>
> sd_lists_size() is cheap, it doesn't walk or count dependencies; it just adds 
> 2-3 integers together.
>
> The reason why sd_lists_size() has a loop is to be able to transparently 
> handle dependencies split among sub-lists, e.g., 
> sd_lists_size(SD_LIST_HARD_BACK | SD_LIST_SPEC_BACK) will return total number 
> of backward dependencies.

I see.  It still better to move the DEP_NONREG/DEP_MULTIPLE checks,
they do not depend on any
of the code above it, no?

Richard.

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> Maxim Kuvyrkov
> https://www.linaro.org
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