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#ifndef HIGHWAY_HWY_PERF_COUNTERS_H_
#define HIGHWAY_HWY_PERF_COUNTERS_H_
// Reads OS/CPU performance counters.
#include <stddef.h>
#include "third_party/highway/hwy/base.h" // HWY_ABORT
#include "third_party/highway/hwy/bit_set.h"
namespace hwy {
namespace platform {
// Avoid padding in case callers such as profiler.h store many instances.
#pragma pack(push, 1)
// Provides access to CPU/OS performance counters. Each instance has space for
// multiple counter values; which counters these are may change in future.
// Although counters are per-CPU, Linux accesses them via a syscall, hence we
// use the monostate pattern to avoid callers having to pass around a pointer.
// Note that this is not thread-safe, so the static member functions should only
// be called from the main thread.
class PerfCounters {
public:
// Chosen such that this class occupies one or two cache lines.
static constexpr size_t kCapacity = 14;
// Bit indices used to identify counters. The ordering is arbitrary. Some of
// these counters may be 'removed' in the sense of not being visited by
// `Foreach`, but their enumerators will remain. New counters may be appended.
enum Counter {
kRefCycles = 0,
kInstructions,
kBranches,
kBranchMispredicts,
kBusCycles,
kCacheRefs,
kCacheMisses,
kL3Loads,
kL3Stores,
kPageFaults, // SW
kMigrations // SW
}; // BitSet64 requires these values to be less than 64.
// Strings for user-facing messages, not used in the implementation.
static inline const char* Name(Counter c) {
switch (c) {
case kRefCycles:
return "ref_cycles";
case kInstructions:
return "instructions";
case kBranches:
return "branches";
case kBranchMispredicts:
return "branch_mispredicts";
case kBusCycles:
return "bus_cycles";
case kCacheRefs:
return "cache_refs";
case kCacheMisses:
return "cache_misses";
case kL3Loads:
return "l3_load";
case kL3Stores:
return "l3_store";
case kPageFaults:
return "page_fault";
case kMigrations:
return "migration";
default:
HWY_ABORT("Bug: unknown counter %d", c);
}
}
// Returns false if counters are unavailable. Must be called at least once
// before `StartAll`; it is separate to reduce the overhead of repeatedly
// stopping/starting counters.
HWY_DLLEXPORT static bool Init();
// Returns false if counters are unavailable, otherwise starts them. Note that
// they default to stopped. Unless this is called, the values read may be 0.
HWY_DLLEXPORT static bool StartAll();
// Stops and zeros all counters. This is not necessary if users subtract the
// previous counter values, but can increase precision because floating-point
// has more precision near zero.
HWY_DLLEXPORT static void StopAllAndReset();
// Reads the current (extrapolated, in case of multiplexing) counter values.
HWY_DLLEXPORT PerfCounters();
// Returns whether any counters were successfully read.
bool AnyValid() const { return valid_.Any(); }
// Returns whether the given counter was successfully read.
bool IsValid(Counter c) const {
const size_t bit_idx = static_cast<size_t>(c);
return valid_.Get(bit_idx);
}
// Returns the maximum extrapolation factor for any counter, which is the
// total time between `StartAll` and now or the last `StopAllAndReset`,
// divided by the time that the counter was actually running. This
// approximates the number of counter groups that the CPU multiplexes onto the
// actual counter hardware. It is only meaningful if AnyValid().
double MaxExtrapolate() const { return max_extrapolate_; }
// Returns the value of the given counter, or zero if it is not valid.
double Get(Counter c) const {
return IsValid(c) ? values_[IndexForCounter(c)] : 0.0;
}
// For each valid counter in increasing numerical order, calls `visitor` with
// the value and `Counter`.
template <class Visitor>
void Foreach(const Visitor& visitor) {
valid_.Foreach([&](size_t bit_idx) {
const Counter c = static_cast<Counter>(bit_idx);
visitor(values_[IndexForCounter(c)], c);
});
}
private:
// Index within `values_` for a given counter.
HWY_DLLEXPORT static size_t IndexForCounter(Counter c);
BitSet64 valid_;
double max_extrapolate_;
// Floating-point because these are extrapolated (multiplexing). It would be
// nice for this to fit in one cache line to reduce the cost of reading
// counters in profiler.h, but some of the values are too large for float and
// we want more than 8 counters. Ensure all values are sums, not ratios, so
// that profiler.h can add/subtract them. These are contiguous in memory, in
// the order that counters were initialized.
double values_[kCapacity];
};
#pragma pack(pop)
} // namespace platform
} // namespace hwy
#endif // HIGHWAY_HWY_PERF_COUNTERS_H_