#!/usr/bin/awk -f # Script to analyze experimental results of our branch prediction heuristics # Contributed by Jan Hubicka, SuSE Inc. # Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This file is part of GNU CC. # # GNU CC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) # any later version. # # GNU CC 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 General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with GNU CC; see the file COPYING. If not, write to # the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, # Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. # # # This script is used to calculate two basic properties of the branch prediction # heuristics - coverage and hitrate. Coverage is number of execution of a given # branch matched by the heuristics and hitrate is probability that once branch is # predicted as taken it is really taken. # # These values are useful to determine the quality of given heuristics. Hitrate # may be directly used in predict.c. # # Usage: # Step 1: compile and profile your program. You need to use -fprofile-arcs # flag to get the profiles # Step 2: Generate log files. The information about given heuristics are # saved into *.life dumps. You need to pass the -df switch to the compiler as well # as -fbranch-probabilities to get the results of profiling noted in the dumps. # Ensure that there are no "Arc profiling: some edge counts were bad." warnings. # Step 3: Run this script to concatenate all *.life files: # analyze_brprob `find . -name *.life` # the information is collected and print once all files are parsed. This # may take a while. # Note that the script does use bc to perform long arithmetic. # Step 4: Read the results. Basically the following table is printed: # (this is just an example from a very early stage of branch prediction pass # development, so please don't take these numbers seriously) # #HEURISTICS BRANCHES (REL) HITRATE COVERAGE (REL) #opcode 2889 83.7% 94.96%/ 97.62% 7516383 75.3% #pointer 246 7.1% 99.69%/ 99.86% 118791 1.2% #loop header 449 13.0% 98.32%/ 99.07% 43553 0.4% #first match 3450 100.0% 89.92%/ 97.27% 9979782 100.0% #loop exit 924 26.8% 88.95%/ 95.58% 9026266 90.4% #error return 150 4.3% 64.48%/ 86.81% 453542 4.5% #call 803 23.3% 51.66%/ 98.61% 3614037 36.2% #loop branch 51 1.5% 99.26%/ 99.27% 26854 0.3% #noreturn call 951 27.6% 100.00%/100.00% 1759809 17.6% # # The heuristic called "first match" is a heuristic used by GCC branch # prediction pass and it predicts 89.92% branches correctly. # # The quality of heuristics can be rated using both, coverage and hitrate # parameters. For example "loop branch" heuristics (predicting loopback edge # as taken) have both very high hitrate and coverage, so it is very useful. # On the other hand, "exit block" heuristics (predicting exit edges as not # taken) have good hitrate, but poor coverage, so only 3 branches have been # predicted. The "loop header" heuristic has problems, since it tends to # misspredict. # # The implementation of this script is somewhat brute force. My awk skills # are limited. function longeval(e) { e = "echo \"scale = 2 ;"e"\" | bc" e | getline res close (e) return res } BEGIN {nnames = 0} /^ .* heuristics: .*.$/ { name=$0 sub (/^ /,"",name) sub (/ heuristics: .*.$/,"",name) if (!(name in branches)) { names[nnames] = name branches[name]=0 counts[name]=0 hits[name]=0 phits[name]=0 nnames++ } branches[name]+=1 } /^ .* heuristics: .*. exec [0-9]* hit [0-9]* (.*.)$/ { name=$0 sub (/^ /,"",name) sub (/ heuristics: .*. exec [0-9]* hit [0-9]* (.*.)$/,"",name) pred=$0 sub (/^ .* heuristics: /,"",pred) sub (/. exec [0-9]* hit [0-9]* (.*.)$/,"",pred) count=$0 sub (/^ .* heuristics: .*. exec /,"",count) sub (/ hit [0-9]* (.*.)$/,"",count) hit=$0 sub (/^ .* heuristics: .*. exec [0-9]* hit /,"",hit) sub (/ (.*.)$/,"",hit) if (int(pred) < 50.0) { hit = count - hit; } counts[name]=counts[name] "+" count hits[name]=hits[name] "+" hit if (int (hit) < (int (count) / 2)) hit = count - hit; phits[name]=phits[name] "+" hit #BC crashes on long strings. Irritating. if (length(counts[name]) > 4000) { counts[name] = longeval(counts[name]) hits[name] = longeval(hits[name]) phits[name] = longeval(phits[name]) } } END { # Heuristics called combined predicts just everything. maxcounts = longeval(counts["first match"]) maxbranches = branches["first match"] max = names["first match"] printf("HEURISTICS BRANCHES (REL) HITRATE COVERAGE (REL)\n") for (i = 0; i < nnames ; i++) { name = names[i] counts[name] = longeval(counts[name]) printf ("%-27s %8i %5.1f%% %6s%%/%6s%% %12s %5.1f%%\n", name, branches[name], branches[name] * 100 / maxbranches, longeval("("hits[name]") * 100 /(" counts[name]"-0.00001)"), longeval("("phits[name]") * 100 /(" counts[name]"-0.00001)"), counts[name], longeval(counts[name]" * 100 / ("maxcounts"-0.00001)")) } }