FYI, we use ralloc for a lot more than just the glsl compiler so the first few changes make me a bit nervous. There was someone working on making our driver more I undefined-memory-friendly but I don't know what happened to those patches. <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 8, 2016 3:58 AM, "Marek Olšák" <<a href="mailto:maraeo@gmail.com">maraeo@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, This patch series reduces the number of malloc calls in the GLSL compiler by 63%. That leads to better compile times and less heap thrashing. It's done by switching memory allocations in the GLSL compiler to my new linear allocator that allocates out of a fixed-sized buffer with a monotonically increasing offset. If more buffers are needed, it chains them. The new allocator is used in all places where short-lived allocations are used with a high number of malloc calls. The series also contains other improvements not related to the new allocator that also improve compile times. The results are below. I tested my shader-db with shaders only being compiled to TGSI. (noop gallium driver) master + libc's malloc: real 0m54.182s user 3m33.640s sys 0m0.620s maxmem 275 MB master + jemalloc preloaded: real 0m45.044s user 2m56.356s sys 0m1.652s maxmem 284 MB the series + libc's malloc: real 0m46.221s user 3m2.080s sys 0m0.544s maxmem 270 MB the series + jemalloc preloaded: real 0m40.729s user 2m39.564s sys 0m1.232s maxmem 284 MB The series without jemalloc almost caught up with jemalloc + master. However, jemalloc also benefits. Current Mesa needs 54.182s and it drops to 40.729s with my series and jemalloc. The total change in compile time is -25% if we incorporate both. Without jemalloc, the difference is only -14.7%. With radeonsi, the improvement is approx. slightly more than 1/2 of that (if you add the LLVM time). However, radeonsi also has asynchronous shader compilation hiding LLVM overhead in some cases, so it depends. Drivers with faster compiler backends will benefit more than radeonsi, but will probably not reach -25% or -14.7% (except softpipe, which uses TGSI as-is). The memory usage looks reasonable in all tested cases. Note: One of the first patches moves memset from ralloc to rzalloc. I tested and fixed the GLSL source -> TGSI path, but other codepaths may break, and you need to use valgrind to find all uninitialized variables that relied on ralloc doing memset (if there are any). You can also find it here: <a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mareko/mesa/log/?h=glsl-alloc-rework" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mareko/mesa/log/?h=glsl-alloc-rework</a> Please review. src/compiler/glsl/ast.h | 4 +- src/compiler/glsl/ast_to_hir.cpp | 4 +- src/compiler/glsl/ast_type.cpp | 13 ++- src/compiler/glsl/glcpp/glcpp-lex.l | 2 +- src/compiler/glsl/glcpp/glcpp-parse.y | 203 +++++++++++++++++--------------------- src/compiler/glsl/glcpp/glcpp.h | 1 + src/compiler/glsl/glsl_lexer.ll | 16 +-- src/compiler/glsl/glsl_parser.yy | 202 +++++++++++++++++++------------------- src/compiler/glsl/glsl_parser_extras.cpp | 6 +- src/compiler/glsl/glsl_parser_extras.h | 4 +- src/compiler/glsl/glsl_symbol_table.cpp | 19 ++-- src/compiler/glsl/glsl_symbol_table.h | 1 + src/compiler/glsl/ir.cpp | 4 + src/compiler/glsl/ir.h | 13 ++- src/compiler/glsl/link_uniform_blocks.cpp | 2 +- src/compiler/glsl/list.h | 2 +- src/compiler/glsl/lower_packed_varyings.cpp | 8 +- src/compiler/glsl/opt_constant_propagation.cpp | 14 ++- src/compiler/glsl/opt_copy_propagation.cpp | 7 +- src/compiler/glsl/opt_copy_propagation_elements.cpp | 19 ++-- src/compiler/glsl/opt_dead_code_local.cpp | 12 ++- src/compiler/glsl_types.cpp | 38 +------ src/compiler/glsl_types.h | 6 +- src/compiler/nir/nir.c | 8 +- src/compiler/spirv/vtn_variables.c | 3 +- src/gallium/drivers/freedreno/ir3/ir3.c | 2 +- src/gallium/drivers/vc4/vc4_cl.c | 2 +- src/gallium/drivers/vc4/vc4_program.c | 2 +- src/gallium/drivers/vc4/vc4_simulator.c | 5 +- src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_state_batch.c | 5 +- src/util/ralloc.c | 392 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- src/util/ralloc.h | 93 ++++++++++++++++-- 32 files changed, 782 insertions(+), 330 deletions(-) Marek _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list <a href="mailto:mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org">mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev</a> </blockquote></div> </div>