1 //===--------------------- TimelineView.h -----------------------*- C++ -*-===//
3 // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
4 // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
7 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
10 /// This file implements a timeline view for the llvm-mca tool.
12 /// Class TimelineView observes events generated by the pipeline. For every
13 /// instruction executed by the pipeline, it stores information related to
14 /// state transition. It then plots that information in the form of a table
15 /// as reported by the example below:
21 /// [0,0] DeER . . .. vmovshdup %xmm0, %xmm1
22 /// [0,1] DeER . . .. vpermilpd $1, %xmm0, %xmm2
23 /// [0,2] .DeER. . .. vpermilps $231, %xmm0, %xmm5
24 /// [0,3] .DeeeER . .. vaddss %xmm1, %xmm0, %xmm3
25 /// [0,4] . D==eeeER. .. vaddss %xmm3, %xmm2, %xmm4
26 /// [0,5] . D=====eeeER .. vaddss %xmm4, %xmm5, %xmm6
28 /// [1,0] . DeE------R .. vmovshdup %xmm0, %xmm1
29 /// [1,1] . DeE------R .. vpermilpd $1, %xmm0, %xmm2
30 /// [1,2] . DeE-----R .. vpermilps $231, %xmm0, %xmm5
31 /// [1,3] . D=eeeE--R .. vaddss %xmm1, %xmm0, %xmm3
32 /// [1,4] . D===eeeER .. vaddss %xmm3, %xmm2, %xmm4
33 /// [1,5] . D======eeeER vaddss %xmm4, %xmm5, %xmm6
35 /// There is an entry for every instruction in the input assembly sequence.
36 /// The first field is a pair of numbers obtained from the instruction index.
37 /// The first element of the pair is the iteration index, while the second
38 /// element of the pair is a sequence number (i.e. a position in the assembly
40 /// The second field of the table is the actual timeline information; each
41 /// column is the information related to a specific cycle of execution.
42 /// The timeline of an instruction is described by a sequence of character
43 /// where each character represents the instruction state at a specific cycle.
45 /// Possible instruction states are:
46 /// D: Instruction Dispatched
47 /// e: Instruction Executing
48 /// E: Instruction Executed (write-back stage)
49 /// R: Instruction retired
50 /// =: Instruction waiting in the Scheduler's queue
51 /// -: Instruction executed, waiting to retire in order.
53 /// dots ('.') and empty spaces are cycles where the instruction is not
56 /// The last column is the assembly instruction associated to the entry.
58 /// Based on the timeline view information from the example, instruction 0
59 /// at iteration 0 was dispatched at cycle 0, and was retired at cycle 3.
60 /// Instruction [0,1] was also dispatched at cycle 0, and it retired at
61 /// the same cycle than instruction [0,0].
62 /// Instruction [0,4] has been dispatched at cycle 2. However, it had to
63 /// wait for two cycles before being issued. That is because operands
64 /// became ready only at cycle 5.
66 /// This view helps further understanding bottlenecks and the impact of
67 /// resource pressure on the code.
69 /// To better understand why instructions had to wait for multiple cycles in
70 /// the scheduler's queue, class TimelineView also reports extra timing info
71 /// in another table named "Average Wait times" (see example below).
74 /// Average Wait times (based on the timeline view):
76 /// [1]: Average time spent waiting in a scheduler's queue
77 /// [2]: Average time spent waiting in a scheduler's queue while ready
78 /// [3]: Average time elapsed from WB until retire stage
81 /// 0. 2 1.0 1.0 3.0 vmovshdup %xmm0, %xmm1
82 /// 1. 2 1.0 1.0 3.0 vpermilpd $1, %xmm0, %xmm2
83 /// 2. 2 1.0 1.0 2.5 vpermilps $231, %xmm0, %xmm5
84 /// 3. 2 1.5 0.5 1.0 vaddss %xmm1, %xmm0, %xmm3
85 /// 4. 2 3.5 0.0 0.0 vaddss %xmm3, %xmm2, %xmm4
86 /// 5. 2 6.5 0.0 0.0 vaddss %xmm4, %xmm5, %xmm6
87 /// 2 2.4 0.6 1.6 <total>
89 /// By comparing column [2] with column [1], we get an idea about how many
90 /// cycles were spent in the scheduler's queue due to data dependencies.
92 /// In this example, instruction 5 spent an average of ~6 cycles in the
93 /// scheduler's queue. As soon as operands became ready, the instruction
94 /// was immediately issued to the pipeline(s).
95 /// That is expected because instruction 5 cannot transition to the "ready"
96 /// state until %xmm4 is written by instruction 4.
98 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
100 #ifndef LLVM_TOOLS_LLVM_MCA_TIMELINEVIEW_H
101 #define LLVM_TOOLS_LLVM_MCA_TIMELINEVIEW_H
103 #include "Views/View.h"
104 #include "llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h"
105 #include "llvm/MC/MCInst.h"
106 #include "llvm/MC/MCInstPrinter.h"
107 #include "llvm/MC/MCSubtargetInfo.h"
108 #include "llvm/Support/FormattedStream.h"
109 #include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
114 /// This class listens to instruction state transition events
115 /// in order to construct a timeline information.
117 /// For every instruction executed by the Pipeline, this class constructs
118 /// a TimelineViewEntry object. TimelineViewEntry objects are then used
119 /// to print the timeline information, as well as the "average wait times"
120 /// for every instruction in the input assembly sequence.
121 class TimelineView
: public View
{
122 const llvm::MCSubtargetInfo
&STI
;
123 llvm::MCInstPrinter
&MCIP
;
124 llvm::ArrayRef
<llvm::MCInst
> Source
;
126 unsigned CurrentCycle
;
130 struct TimelineViewEntry
{
131 int CycleDispatched
; // A negative value is an "invalid cycle".
133 unsigned CycleIssued
;
134 unsigned CycleExecuted
;
135 unsigned CycleRetired
;
137 std::vector
<TimelineViewEntry
> Timeline
;
139 struct WaitTimeEntry
{
140 unsigned CyclesSpentInSchedulerQueue
;
141 unsigned CyclesSpentInSQWhileReady
;
142 unsigned CyclesSpentAfterWBAndBeforeRetire
;
144 std::vector
<WaitTimeEntry
> WaitTime
;
146 // This field is used to map instructions to buffered resources.
147 // Elements of this vector are <resourceID, BufferSizer> pairs.
148 std::vector
<std::pair
<unsigned, int>> UsedBuffer
;
150 void printTimelineViewEntry(llvm::formatted_raw_ostream
&OS
,
151 const TimelineViewEntry
&E
, unsigned Iteration
,
152 unsigned SourceIndex
) const;
153 void printWaitTimeEntry(llvm::formatted_raw_ostream
&OS
,
154 const WaitTimeEntry
&E
, unsigned Index
,
155 unsigned Executions
) const;
157 // Display characters for the TimelineView report output.
159 static const char Dispatched
= 'D';
160 static const char Executed
= 'E';
161 static const char Retired
= 'R';
162 static const char Waiting
= '='; // Instruction is waiting in the scheduler.
163 static const char Executing
= 'e';
164 static const char RetireLag
= '-'; // The instruction is waiting to retire.
168 TimelineView(const llvm::MCSubtargetInfo
&sti
, llvm::MCInstPrinter
&Printer
,
169 llvm::ArrayRef
<llvm::MCInst
> S
, unsigned Iterations
,
173 void onCycleEnd() override
{ ++CurrentCycle
; }
174 void onEvent(const HWInstructionEvent
&Event
) override
;
175 void onReservedBuffers(const InstRef
&IR
,
176 llvm::ArrayRef
<unsigned> Buffers
) override
;
178 // print functionalities.
179 void printTimeline(llvm::raw_ostream
&OS
) const;
180 void printAverageWaitTimes(llvm::raw_ostream
&OS
) const;
181 void printView(llvm::raw_ostream
&OS
) const override
{
183 printAverageWaitTimes(OS
);