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17d6c819 1#!/usr/bin/awk -f
075cc945 2# Script to analyze experimental results of our branch prediction heuristics
f981f97b 3# Contributed by Jan Hubicka, SuSE Inc.
487a9427 4# Copyright (C) 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
17d6c819 5#
487a9427 6# This file is part of GCC.
17d6c819 7#
487a9427 8# GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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9# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
10# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
11# any later version.
12#
487a9427 13# GCC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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14# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
15# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
16# GNU General Public License for more details.
17#
18# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
487a9427 19# along with GCC; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
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20# the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
21# Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
22#
23#
24# This script is used to calculate two basic properties of the branch prediction
a6ed70ef 25# heuristics - coverage and hitrate. Coverage is number of executions of a given
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26# branch matched by the heuristics and hitrate is probability that once branch is
27# predicted as taken it is really taken.
28#
f981f97b 29# These values are useful to determine the quality of given heuristics. Hitrate
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30# may be directly used in predict.c.
31#
32# Usage:
a6ed70ef 33# Step 1: Compile and profile your program. You need to use -fprofile-arcs
17d6c819 34# flag to get the profiles
f981f97b 35# Step 2: Generate log files. The information about given heuristics are
7eacb691 36# saved into *.bp dumps. You need to pass the -db switch to the compiler as well
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37# as -fbranch-probabilities to get the results of profiling noted in the dumps.
38# Ensure that there are no "Arc profiling: some edge counts were bad." warnings.
f981f97b 39# Step 3: Run this script to concatenate all *.life files:
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40# analyze_brprob `find . -name *.life`
41# the information is collected and print once all files are parsed. This
42# may take a while.
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43# Note that the script does use bc to perform long arithmetic.
44# Step 4: Read the results. Basically the following table is printed:
45# (this is just an example from a very early stage of branch prediction pass
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46# development, so please don't take these numbers seriously)
47#
48#HEURISTICS BRANCHES (REL) HITRATE COVERAGE (REL)
49#opcode 2889 83.7% 94.96%/ 97.62% 7516383 75.3%
50#pointer 246 7.1% 99.69%/ 99.86% 118791 1.2%
51#loop header 449 13.0% 98.32%/ 99.07% 43553 0.4%
52#first match 3450 100.0% 89.92%/ 97.27% 9979782 100.0%
53#loop exit 924 26.8% 88.95%/ 95.58% 9026266 90.4%
54#error return 150 4.3% 64.48%/ 86.81% 453542 4.5%
55#call 803 23.3% 51.66%/ 98.61% 3614037 36.2%
56#loop branch 51 1.5% 99.26%/ 99.27% 26854 0.3%
57#noreturn call 951 27.6% 100.00%/100.00% 1759809 17.6%
58#
f981f97b 59# The heuristic called "first match" is a heuristic used by GCC branch
075cc945 60# prediction pass and it predicts 89.92% branches correctly.
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61#
62# The quality of heuristics can be rated using both, coverage and hitrate
63# parameters. For example "loop branch" heuristics (predicting loopback edge
f981f97b 64# as taken) have both very high hitrate and coverage, so it is very useful.
17d6c819 65# On the other hand, "exit block" heuristics (predicting exit edges as not
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66# taken) have good hitrate, but poor coverage, so only 3 branches have been
67# predicted. The "loop header" heuristic has problems, since it tends to
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68# misspredict.
69#
70# The implementation of this script is somewhat brute force. My awk skills
71# are limited.
72
73function longeval(e)
74{
75 e = "echo \"scale = 2 ;"e"\" | bc"
76 e | getline res
77 close (e)
78 return res
79}
80
81BEGIN {nnames = 0}
82
83/^ .* heuristics: .*.$/ {
84 name=$0
85 sub (/^ /,"",name)
86 sub (/ heuristics: .*.$/,"",name)
87 if (!(name in branches))
88 {
89 names[nnames] = name
90 branches[name]=0
91 counts[name]=0
92 hits[name]=0
93 phits[name]=0
94 nnames++
95 }
96 branches[name]+=1
97 }
98
99/^ .* heuristics: .*. exec [0-9]* hit [0-9]* (.*.)$/ {
100 name=$0
101 sub (/^ /,"",name)
102 sub (/ heuristics: .*. exec [0-9]* hit [0-9]* (.*.)$/,"",name)
103 pred=$0
104 sub (/^ .* heuristics: /,"",pred)
105 sub (/. exec [0-9]* hit [0-9]* (.*.)$/,"",pred)
106 count=$0
107 sub (/^ .* heuristics: .*. exec /,"",count)
108 sub (/ hit [0-9]* (.*.)$/,"",count)
109 hit=$0
110 sub (/^ .* heuristics: .*. exec [0-9]* hit /,"",hit)
111 sub (/ (.*.)$/,"",hit)
112
113 if (int(pred) < 50.0)
114 {
ffd15534 115 hit = count"-"hit;
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116 }
117 counts[name]=counts[name] "+" count
118 hits[name]=hits[name] "+" hit
ffd15534 119 phits[name]=phits[name] "+(("hit")<"count"/2)*("count"-("hit"))+(("hit")>="count"/2)*("hit")"
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120
121 #BC crashes on long strings. Irritating.
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122 if (length(counts[name]) > 2000)
123 counts[name] = longeval(counts[name])
124 if (length(hits[name]) > 2000)
125 hits[name] = longeval(hits[name])
126 if (length(phits[name]) > 2000)
127 phits[name] = longeval(phits[name])
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128 }
129END {
130 # Heuristics called combined predicts just everything.
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131 maxcounts = longeval(counts["combined"])
132 maxbranches = branches["combined"]
133 max = names["combined"]
7eacb691 134 printf("HEURISTICS BRANCHES (REL) HITRATE COVERAGE (REL)\n")
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135 for (i = 0; i < nnames ; i++)
136 {
137 name = names[i]
4edc91ae 138 counts[name] = longeval(counts[name])
7eacb691 139 printf ("%-26s %8i %5.1f%% %6s%% / %6s%% %12s %5.1f%%\n",
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140 name,
141 branches[name], branches[name] * 100 / maxbranches,
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142 longeval("("hits[name]") * 100 /(" counts[name]"-0.00001)"),
143 longeval("("phits[name]") * 100 /(" counts[name]"-0.00001)"),
144 counts[name], longeval(counts[name]" * 100 / ("maxcounts"-0.00001)"))
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145 }
146}
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