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authorSimon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>2011-11-28 16:48:43 +0000
committerSimon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>2011-11-29 12:21:18 +0000
commit50de6034343abc93a7b01daccff34121042c0e7c (patch)
tree24496a5fc6bc39c6baaa574608e53c5d76c169f6 /rts/RetainerProfile.h
parent1c2b838131134d44004dfdff18c302131478390d (diff)
downloadhaskell-50de6034343abc93a7b01daccff34121042c0e7c.tar.gz
Make profiling work with multiple capabilities (+RTS -N)
This means that both time and heap profiling work for parallel programs. Main internal changes: - CCCS is no longer a global variable; it is now another pseudo-register in the StgRegTable struct. Thus every Capability has its own CCCS. - There is a new built-in CCS called "IDLE", which records ticks for Capabilities in the idle state. If you profile a single-threaded program with +RTS -N2, you'll see about 50% of time in "IDLE". - There is appropriate locking in rts/Profiling.c to protect the shared cost-centre-stack data structures. This patch does enough to get it working, I have cut one big corner: the cost-centre-stack data structure is still shared amongst all Capabilities, which means that multiple Capabilities will race when updating the "allocations" and "entries" fields of a CCS. Not only does this give unpredictable results, but it runs very slowly due to cache line bouncing. It is strongly recommended that you use -fno-prof-count-entries to disable the "entries" count when profiling parallel programs. (I shall add a note to this effect to the docs).
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diff --git a/rts/RetainerProfile.h b/rts/RetainerProfile.h
index b2adf71d9d..0e75327cde 100644
--- a/rts/RetainerProfile.h
+++ b/rts/RetainerProfile.h
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ void endRetainerProfiling ( void );
void retainerProfile ( void );
void resetStaticObjectForRetainerProfiling( StgClosure *static_objects );
+// flip is either 1 or 0, changed at the beginning of retainerProfile()
+// It is used to tell whether a retainer set has been touched so far
+// during this pass.
extern StgWord flip;
// extract the retainer set field from c