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Improve call counting mechanism (#1457)
Improve call counting mechanism
- Call counting through the prestub is fairly expensive and can be seen immediately after call counting begins
- Added call counting stubs. When starting call counting for a method:
- A `CallCountingInfo` is created and initializes a remaining call count with a threshold
- A `CallCountingStub` is created. It contains a small amount of code that decrements the remaining call count and checks for zero. When nonzero, it jumps to the code version's native code entry point. When zero, it forwards to a helper function that handles tier promotion.
- When the call count threshold is reached, the helper call enqueues completion of call counting for background processing
- When completing call counting, the code version is enqueued for promotion, and the call counting stub is removed from the call chain
- Once all work queued for promotion is completed and methods transitioned to optimized tier, call counting stubs are deleted based on some heuristics and under runtime suspension
- The `CallCountingManager` is the main class with most of the logic. Its private subclasses are just simple data structures.
- Call counting is done at a `NativeCodeVersion` level (stub association is with the code version)
- The code versioning lock is used for data structures used for call counting. Since installing a call counting stub requires that we know what the currently active code version is, it made sense to use the same lock.
- Call counting stubs have hardcoded code. x64 has short and long stubs, short stubs are used when possible (often) and use IP-relative branches to the method's code and helper stub. Other platforms have only one type of stub (a short stub).
- For tiered methods that don't have a precode (virtual and interface methods), a forwarder stub (a precode) is created and it forwards to the call counting stub. This is so that the call counting stub can be safely and easily deleted. The forwarder stubs are only used when counting calls, there is one per method (not per code version), and they are not deleted. See `CallCountingManager::SetCodeEntryPoint()` for more info.
- The `OnCallCountThresholdReachedStub()` takes a "stub-identifying token". The helper call gets a stub address from it, and tells whether it's a short or long stub. From the stub, the remaining call count pointer is used to get the `CallCountingInfo`, and from it gets the `NativeCodeVersion` associated with the stub.
- The `CallCountingStubManager` traces through a call counting stub so that VS-like debuggers can step into a method through the call counting stub
- Exceptions (OOM)
- On foreground threads, exceptions are propagated unless they can be handled without any compromise
- On background threads, exceptions are caught and logged as before. Tried to limit scope of exception to one per method or code version such that a loop over many would not all be aborted by one exception.
- Fixed a latent race where a method is recorded for call counting and then the method's code entry point is set to tier 0 code
- With that order, the tiering delay may expire and the method's entry point may be updated for call counting in the background before the code entry point is set by the recording thread, and that last action would disable call counting for the method and cause it to not be optimized. The only thing protecting from this happening was the delay itself, but a configured shorter delay increases the possibility of this happening.
- Inverted the order such that the method's code entry point is set before recording it for call counting, both on first and subsequent calls
- Changed the tiered compilation lock to be an any-GC-mode lock so that it can be taken inside the code versioning lock, as some things were more naturally placed inside the code versioning lock where we know the active code version, like checking for the tiering delay to delay call counting and promoting the code version when the call count threshold is reached
- Unfortunately, that makes code inside the lock a GC-no-trigger scope and things like scheduling a timer or queuing a work item to the thread pool could not be done inside that scope. This tradeoff seems to be better than alternatives, so refactored those pieces to occur outside that scope.
- Publishing an entry point after changing the active code version now takes call counting into account, fixes https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/22426
- After the changes:
- Call counting overhead is much smaller and is not many orders of magnitude greater than a method call
- Some config modes for tuning tiering are now much more reasonable and do not affect perf negatively nearly as much as before - increasing call count threshold, disabling or decreasing the tiering delay. Enables dynamic thresholds in the future, which is not feasible due to the overhead currently.
- No change to startup or steady-state perf
- Left for later
- Eventing work to report call counting stub code ranges and method name (also needs to be done for other stubs)
- Some tests that consume events to verify run-time behavior in a few config modes
- Debugger test to verify debugging while call-counting. Debugger tests also need to be fixed for tiering.
- The call count threshold has not been changed for now. As we don't have many tests that measure the performance in-between startup and steady-state, some will need to be created maybe from existing tests, to determine the effects
- Fixes https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/23596- Loading branch information
