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* Add per-thread cache to mallocDJ Delorie2017-07-061-0/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * config.make.in: Enable experimental malloc option. * configure.ac: Likewise. * configure: Regenerate. * manual/install.texi: Document it. * INSTALL: Regenerate. * malloc/Makefile: Likewise. * malloc/malloc.c: Add per-thread cache (tcache). (tcache_put): New. (tcache_get): New. (tcache_thread_freeres): New. (tcache_init): New. (__libc_malloc): Use cached chunks if available. (__libc_free): Initialize tcache if needed. (__libc_realloc): Likewise. (__libc_calloc): Likewise. (_int_malloc): Prefill tcache when appropriate. (_int_free): Likewise. (do_set_tcache_max): New. (do_set_tcache_count): New. (do_set_tcache_unsorted_limit): New. * manual/probes.texi: Document new probes. * malloc/arena.c: Add new tcache tunables. * elf/dl-tunables.list: Likewise. * manual/tunables.texi: Document them. * NEWS: Mention the per-thread cache.
* tunables, aarch64: New tunable to override cpuSiddhesh Poyarekar2017-06-301-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new tunable (glibc.tune.cpu) to override CPU identification on aarch64. This is useful in two cases: one where it is desirable to pretend to be another CPU for purposes of testing or because routines written for that CPU are beneficial for specific workloads and second where the underlying kernel does not support emulation of MRS to get the MIDR of the CPU. * elf/dl-tunables.h (tunable_is_name): Move from... * elf/dl-tunables.c (is_name): ... here. (parse_tunables, __tunables_init): Adjust. * manual/tunables.texi: Document glibc.tune.cpu. * sysdeps/aarch64/dl-tunables.list: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/cpu-features.c (struct cpu_list): New type. (cpu_list): New list of CPU names and their MIDR. (get_midr_from_mcpu): New function. (init_cpu_features): Override MIDR if necessary.
* x86: Rename glibc.tune.ifunc to glibc.tune.hwcapsH.J. Lu2017-06-211-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rename glibc.tune.ifunc to glibc.tune.hwcaps and move it to sysdeps/x86/dl-tunables.list since it is x86 specicifc. Also change type of data_cache_size, data_cache_size and non_temporal_threshold to unsigned long int to match size_t. Remove usage DEFAULT_STRLEN from cpu-tunables.c. * elf/dl-tunables.list (glibc.tune.ifunc): Removed. * sysdeps/x86/dl-tunables.list (glibc.tune.hwcaps): New. Remove security_level on all fields. * manual/tunables.texi: Replace ifunc with hwcaps. * sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c (TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_ifunc)): Renamed to .. (TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_hwcaps)): This. (init_cpu_features): Updated. * sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.h (cpu_features): Change type of data_cache_size, data_cache_size and non_temporal_threshold to unsigned long int. * sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c (DEFAULT_STRLEN): Removed. (TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_ifunc)): Renamed to ... (TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_hwcaps)): This. Update comments. Don't use DEFAULT_STRLEN.
* tunables: Add IFUNC selection and cache sizesH.J. Lu2017-06-201-0/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current IFUNC selection is based on microbenchmarks in glibc. It should give the best performance for most workloads. But other choices may have better performance for a particular workload or on the hardware which wasn't available at the selection was made. The environment variable, GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.tune.ifunc=-xxx,yyy,-zzz...., can be used to enable CPU/ARCH feature yyy, disable CPU/ARCH feature yyy and zzz, where the feature name is case-sensitive and has to match the ones in cpu-features.h. It can be used by glibc developers to override the IFUNC selection to tune for a new processor or improve performance for a particular workload. It isn't intended for normal end users. NOTE: the IFUNC selection may change over time. Please check all multiarch implementations when experimenting. Also, GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.tune.x86_non_temporal_threshold=NUMBER is provided to set threshold to use non temporal store to NUMBER, GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.tune.x86_data_cache_size=NUMBER to set data cache size, GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.tune.x86_shared_cache_size=NUMBER to set shared cache size. * elf/dl-tunables.list (tune): Add ifunc, x86_non_temporal_threshold, x86_data_cache_size and x86_shared_cache_size. * manual/tunables.texi: Document glibc.tune.ifunc, glibc.tune.x86_data_cache_size, glibc.tune.x86_shared_cache_size and glibc.tune.x86_non_temporal_threshold. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/dl-sysdep.c: New file. * sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.c (init_cacheinfo): Check and get data cache size, shared cache size and non temporal threshold from cpu_features. * sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c [HAVE_TUNABLES] (TUNABLE_NAMESPACE): New. [HAVE_TUNABLES] Include <unistd.h>. [HAVE_TUNABLES] Include <elf/dl-tunables.h>. [HAVE_TUNABLES] (TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_ifunc)): Likewise. [HAVE_TUNABLES] (init_cpu_features): Use TUNABLE_GET to set IFUNC selection, data cache size, shared cache size and non temporal threshold. * sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.h (cpu_features): Add data_cache_size, shared_cache_size and non_temporal_threshold.
* tunables: Add LD_HWCAP_MASK to tunablesSiddhesh Poyarekar2017-06-071-0/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add LD_HWCAP_MASK to tunables in preparation of it being removed from rtld.c. This allows us to read LD_HWCAP_MASK much earlier so that it can influence IFUNC resolution in aarch64. This patch does not actually do anything other than read the LD_HWCAP_MASK variable and add the tunables way to set the LD_HWCAP_MASK, i.e. via the glibc.tune.hwcap_mask tunable. In a follow-up patch, the _dl_hwcap_mask will be replaced with glibc.tune.hwcap_mask to complete the transition. * elf/dl-tunables.list: Add glibc.tune.hwcap_mask. * scripts/gen-tunables.awk: Include dl-procinfo.h. * manual/tunables.texi: Document glibc.tune.hwcap_mask.
* User manual documentation for tunablesSiddhesh Poyarekar2016-12-311-0/+192
Create a new node for tunables documentation and add notes for the malloc tunables. * manual/tunables.texi: New chapter. * manual/Makefile (chapters): Add it. * manual/probes.texi (@node): Point to the Tunables chapter.