qemu/include/exec/tb-context.h
Emilio G. Cota 6e3b2bfd6a tcg: allocate TB structs before the corresponding translated code
Allocating an arbitrarily-sized array of tbs results in either
(a) a lot of memory wasted or (b) unnecessary flushes of the code
cache when we run out of TB structs in the array.

An obvious solution would be to just malloc a TB struct when needed,
and keep the TB array as an array of pointers (recall that tb_find_pc()
needs the TB array to run in O(log n)).

Perhaps a better solution, which is implemented in this patch, is to
allocate TB's right before the translated code they describe. This
results in some memory waste due to padding to have code and TBs in
separate cache lines--for instance, I measured 4.7% of padding in the
used portion of code_gen_buffer when booting aarch64 Linux on a
host with 64-byte cache lines. However, it can allow for optimizations
in some host architectures, since TCG backends could safely assume that
the TB and the corresponding translated code are very close to each
other in memory. See this message by rth for a detailed explanation:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg05172.html
  Subject: Re: GSoC 2017 Proposal: TCG performance enhancements
  Message-ID: <1e67644b-4b30-887e-d329-1848e94c9484@twiddle.net>

Suggested-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Message-Id: <1496790745-314-3-git-send-email-cota@braap.org>
[rth: Simplify the arithmetic in tcg_tb_alloc]
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
2017-06-19 11:10:59 -07:00

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/*
* Internal structs that QEMU exports to TCG
*
* 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 QEMU_TB_CONTEXT_H
#define QEMU_TB_CONTEXT_H
#include "qemu/thread.h"
#include "qemu/qht.h"
#define CODE_GEN_HTABLE_BITS 15
#define CODE_GEN_HTABLE_SIZE (1 << CODE_GEN_HTABLE_BITS)
typedef struct TranslationBlock TranslationBlock;
typedef struct TBContext TBContext;
struct TBContext {
TranslationBlock **tbs;
struct qht htable;
size_t tbs_size;
int nb_tbs;
/* any access to the tbs or the page table must use this lock */
QemuMutex tb_lock;
/* statistics */
unsigned tb_flush_count;
int tb_phys_invalidate_count;
};
#endif