src/share/vm/runtime/advancedThresholdPolicy.hpp

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24
25 #ifndef SHARE_VM_RUNTIME_ADVANCEDTHRESHOLDPOLICY_HPP
26 #define SHARE_VM_RUNTIME_ADVANCEDTHRESHOLDPOLICY_HPP
27
28 #include "runtime/simpleThresholdPolicy.hpp"
29
30 #ifdef TIERED
31 class CompileTask;
32 class CompileQueue;
33
34 /*
35 * The system supports 5 execution levels:
36 * * level 0 - interpreter
37 * * level 1 - C1 with full optimization (no profiling)
38 * * level 2 - C1 with invocation and backedge counters
39 * * level 3 - C1 with full profiling (level 2 + MDO)
40 * * level 4 - C2
41 *
42 * Levels 0, 2 and 3 periodically notify the runtime about the current value of the counters
43 * (invocation counters and backedge counters). The frequency of these notifications is
44 * different at each level. These notifications are used by the policy to decide what transition
45 * to make.
46 *
47 * Execution starts at level 0 (interpreter), then the policy can decide either to compile the
48 * method at level 3 or level 2. The decision is based on the following factors:
49 * 1. The length of the C2 queue determines the next level. The observation is that level 2
50 * is generally faster than level 3 by about 30%, therefore we would want to minimize the time
51 * a method spends at level 3. We should only spend the time at level 3 that is necessary to get
52 * adequate profiling. So, if the C2 queue is long enough it is more beneficial to go first to
53 * level 2, because if we transitioned to level 3 we would be stuck there until our C2 compile
54 * request makes its way through the long queue. When the load on C2 recedes we are going to
55 * recompile at level 3 and start gathering profiling information.
56 * 2. The length of C1 queue is used to dynamically adjust the thresholds, so as to introduce
57 * additional filtering if the compiler is overloaded. The rationale is that by the time a
58 * method gets compiled it can become unused, so it doesn't make sense to put too much onto the
59 * queue.
60 *
61 * After profiling is completed at level 3 the transition is made to level 4. Again, the length
62 * of the C2 queue is used as a feedback to adjust the thresholds.
63 *
64 * After the first C1 compile some basic information is determined about the code like the number
65 * of the blocks and the number of the loops. Based on that it can be decided that a method
66 * is trivial and compiling it with C1 will yield the same code. In this case the method is
67 * compiled at level 1 instead of 4.
68 *
69 * We also support profiling at level 0. If C1 is slow enough to produce the level 3 version of
70 * the code and the C2 queue is sufficiently small we can decide to start profiling in the
71 * interpreter (and continue profiling in the compiled code once the level 3 version arrives).
72 * If the profiling at level 0 is fully completed before level 3 version is produced, a level 2
73 * version is compiled instead in order to run faster waiting for a level 4 version.
74 *
75 * Compile queues are implemented as priority queues - for each method in the queue we compute
76 * the event rate (the number of invocation and backedge counter increments per unit of time).
77 * When getting an element off the queue we pick the one with the largest rate. Maintaining the
78 * rate also allows us to remove stale methods (the ones that got on the queue but stopped
79 * being used shortly after that).
80 */
81
82 /* Command line options:
83 * - Tier?InvokeNotifyFreqLog and Tier?BackedgeNotifyFreqLog control the frequency of method
84 * invocation and backedge notifications. Basically every n-th invocation or backedge a mutator thread
85 * makes a call into the runtime.
86 *
87 * - Tier?CompileThreshold, Tier?BackEdgeThreshold, Tier?MinInvocationThreshold control
88 * compilation thresholds.
89 * Level 2 thresholds are not used and are provided for option-compatibility and potential future use.
90 * Other thresholds work as follows:
91 *
92 * Transition from interpreter (level 0) to C1 with full profiling (level 3) happens when
93 * the following predicate is true (X is the level):
94 *
95 * i > TierXInvocationThreshold * s || (i > TierXMinInvocationThreshold * s && i + b > TierXCompileThreshold * s),
96 *
97 * where $i$ is the number of method invocations, $b$ number of backedges and $s$ is the scaling
98 * coefficient that will be discussed further.
99 * The intuition is to equalize the time that is spend profiling each method.
100 * The same predicate is used to control the transition from level 3 to level 4 (C2). It should be
101 * noted though that the thresholds are relative. Moreover i and b for the 0->3 transition come
102 * from Method* and for 3->4 transition they come from MDO (since profiled invocations are
103 * counted separately).
104 *
105 * OSR transitions are controlled simply with b > TierXBackEdgeThreshold * s predicates.
106 *
107 * - Tier?LoadFeedback options are used to automatically scale the predicates described above depending
108 * on the compiler load. The scaling coefficients are computed as follows:
109 *
110 * s = queue_size_X / (TierXLoadFeedback * compiler_count_X) + 1,
111 *
112 * where queue_size_X is the current size of the compiler queue of level X, and compiler_count_X
113 * is the number of level X compiler threads.
114 *
115 * Basically these parameters describe how many methods should be in the compile queue
116 * per compiler thread before the scaling coefficient increases by one.
117 *
118 * This feedback provides the mechanism to automatically control the flow of compilation requests
119 * depending on the machine speed, mutator load and other external factors.
120 *
121 * - Tier3DelayOn and Tier3DelayOff parameters control another important feedback loop.
122 * Consider the following observation: a method compiled with full profiling (level 3)
123 * is about 30% slower than a method at level 2 (just invocation and backedge counters, no MDO).
124 * Normally, the following transitions will occur: 0->3->4. The problem arises when the C2 queue
125 * gets congested and the 3->4 transition is delayed. While the method is the C2 queue it continues
126 * executing at level 3 for much longer time than is required by the predicate and at suboptimal speed.
127 * The idea is to dynamically change the behavior of the system in such a way that if a substantial
128 * load on C2 is detected we would first do the 0->2 transition allowing a method to run faster.
129 * And then when the load decreases to allow 2->3 transitions.
130 *
131 * Tier3Delay* parameters control this switching mechanism.
132 * Tier3DelayOn is the number of methods in the C2 queue per compiler thread after which the policy
133 * no longer does 0->3 transitions but does 0->2 transitions instead.
134 * Tier3DelayOff switches the original behavior back when the number of methods in the C2 queue
135 * per compiler thread falls below the specified amount.
136 * The hysteresis is necessary to avoid jitter.
137 *
138 * - TieredCompileTaskTimeout is the amount of time an idle method can spend in the compile queue.
139 * Basically, since we use the event rate d(i + b)/dt as a value of priority when selecting a method to
140 * compile from the compile queue, we also can detect stale methods for which the rate has been
141 * 0 for some time in the same iteration. Stale methods can appear in the queue when an application
142 * abruptly changes its behavior.
143 *
144 * - TieredStopAtLevel, is used mostly for testing. It allows to bypass the policy logic and stick
145 * to a given level. For example it's useful to set TieredStopAtLevel = 1 in order to compile everything
146 * with pure c1.
147 *
148 * - Tier0ProfilingStartPercentage allows the interpreter to start profiling when the inequalities in the
149 * 0->3 predicate are already exceeded by the given percentage but the level 3 version of the
150 * method is still not ready. We can even go directly from level 0 to 4 if c1 doesn't produce a compiled
151 * version in time. This reduces the overall transition to level 4 and decreases the startup time.
152 * Note that this behavior is also guarded by the Tier3Delay mechanism: when the c2 queue is too long
153 * these is not reason to start profiling prematurely.
154 *
155 * - TieredRateUpdateMinTime and TieredRateUpdateMaxTime are parameters of the rate computation.
156 * Basically, the rate is not computed more frequently than TieredRateUpdateMinTime and is considered
157 * to be zero if no events occurred in TieredRateUpdateMaxTime.
158 */
159
160
161 class AdvancedThresholdPolicy : public SimpleThresholdPolicy {
162 jlong _start_time;
163
164 // Call and loop predicates determine whether a transition to a higher compilation
165 // level should be performed (pointers to predicate functions are passed to common().
166 // Predicates also take compiler load into account.
167 typedef bool (AdvancedThresholdPolicy::*Predicate)(int i, int b, CompLevel cur_level);
168 bool call_predicate(int i, int b, CompLevel cur_level);
169 bool loop_predicate(int i, int b, CompLevel cur_level);
170 // Common transition function. Given a predicate determines if a method should transition to another level.
171 CompLevel common(Predicate p, Method* method, CompLevel cur_level, bool disable_feedback = false);
172 // Transition functions.
173 // call_event determines if a method should be compiled at a different
174 // level with a regular invocation entry.
175 CompLevel call_event(Method* method, CompLevel cur_level);
176 // loop_event checks if a method should be OSR compiled at a different
177 // level.
178 CompLevel loop_event(Method* method, CompLevel cur_level);
179 // Has a method been long around?
180 // We don't remove old methods from the compile queue even if they have
181 // very low activity (see select_task()).
182 inline bool is_old(Method* method);
183 // Was a given method inactive for a given number of milliseconds.
184 // If it is, we would remove it from the queue (see select_task()).
185 inline bool is_stale(jlong t, jlong timeout, Method* m);
186 // Compute the weight of the method for the compilation scheduling
187 inline double weight(Method* method);
188 // Apply heuristics and return true if x should be compiled before y
189 inline bool compare_methods(Method* x, Method* y);
190 // Compute event rate for a given method. The rate is the number of event (invocations + backedges)
191 // per millisecond.
192 inline void update_rate(jlong t, Method* m);
193 // Compute threshold scaling coefficient
194 inline double threshold_scale(CompLevel level, int feedback_k);
195 // If a method is old enough and is still in the interpreter we would want to
196 // start profiling without waiting for the compiled method to arrive. This function
197 // determines whether we should do that.
198 inline bool should_create_mdo(Method* method, CompLevel cur_level);
199 // Create MDO if necessary.
200 void create_mdo(methodHandle mh, JavaThread* thread);
201 // Is method profiled enough?
202 bool is_method_profiled(Method* method);
203
204 double _increase_threshold_at_ratio;
205
206 protected:
207 void print_specific(EventType type, methodHandle mh, methodHandle imh, int bci, CompLevel level);
208
209 void set_increase_threshold_at_ratio() { _increase_threshold_at_ratio = 100 / (100 - (double)IncreaseFirstTierCompileThresholdAt); }
210 void set_start_time(jlong t) { _start_time = t; }
211 jlong start_time() const { return _start_time; }
212
213 // Submit a given method for compilation (and update the rate).
214 virtual void submit_compile(methodHandle mh, int bci, CompLevel level, JavaThread* thread);
215 // event() from SimpleThresholdPolicy would call these.
216 virtual void method_invocation_event(methodHandle method, methodHandle inlinee,
217 CompLevel level, nmethod* nm, JavaThread* thread);
218 virtual void method_back_branch_event(methodHandle method, methodHandle inlinee,
219 int bci, CompLevel level, nmethod* nm, JavaThread* thread);
220 public:
221 AdvancedThresholdPolicy() : _start_time(0) { }
222 // Select task is called by CompileBroker. We should return a task or NULL.
223 virtual CompileTask* select_task(CompileQueue* compile_queue);
224 virtual void initialize();
225 virtual bool should_not_inline(ciEnv* env, ciMethod* callee);
226
227 };
228
229 #endif // TIERED
230
231 #endif // SHARE_VM_RUNTIME_ADVANCEDTHRESHOLDPOLICY_HPP

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