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Re: [PATCH] LTO streamer reorg - try to reduce WPA memory use


On 2014.07.30 at 10:31 +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf
> <markus@trippelsdorf.de> wrote:
> > On 2014.07.29 at 15:10 +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
> >> On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Richard Biener wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > This re-organizes the LTO streamer to do compression transparently
> >> > in the data-streamer routines (and disables section compression
> >> > by defaulting to -flto-compression-level=0).  This avoids
> >> > keeping the whole uncompressed sections in memory, only retaining
> >> > the compressed ones.
> >> >
> >> > The downside is that we lose compression of at least the string
> >> > parts (they are abusing the streaming interface quite awkwardly
> >> > and doing random-accesses with offsets into the uncompressed
> >> > section).  With a little bit of surgery we can get that back I
> >> > think (but we'd have to keep the uncompressed piece in memory
> >> > somewhere which means losing the memory use advantage).
> >> >
> >> > Very lightly tested sofar (running lto.exp).  I'll try a LTO
> >> > bootstrap now.
> >> >
> >> > I wonder what the change is on WPA memory use for larger
> >> > projects and what the effect on object file size is.
> >>
> >> Updated patch passing LTO bootstrap (one warning fix) and
> >> with a memory leak fixed.
> >
> > Testing with Firefox is impossible at the moment because of PR61885.
> > One thing I've noticed (before the ICE) is that virtual memory usage is
> > very high:
> >
> > Address            Kbytes      RSS    Dirty  Mode  Mapping
> > 0000000000400000    16344     9084        0  r-x-- lto1
> > 00000000013f6000       36       36       28  rw--- lto1
> > 00000000013ff000     1072      276      276  rw---   [ anon ]
> > 00000000034aa000 10154940  1540384  1540384  rw---   [ anon ]
> > 00002acf04af2000      136      136        0  r-x-- ld-2.19.90.so
> > 00002acf04b14000       88       88       88  rw---   [ anon ]
> > ...
> > ----------------  -------  -------  -------
> > total kB         12022060  3388396  3377708
> 
> Maybe there is still a memleak (just checked that LTOing int main() {}
> doesn't leak).
> 
> Otherwise I forgot to enable compression at all ;)

He. Also parallel streaming stopped working.

-- 
Markus


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