中国科学院：CERN专题计算学校《T-CSC数据存储》课程教学资源（讲义）Optimizing existing large codebase-pres

Optimizing existing large codebase Measire Modemiss Mem threads lon Optimizing existing large codebase Sebastien Ponce sebastien.ponce@cern.ch CERN Thematic CERN School of Computing 2022 1/57 S.Ponce-CERN

Optimizing existing large codebase 1 / 57 S. Ponce - CERN Measure Modernize Mem threads low level c/c Optimizing existing large codebase S´ebastien Ponce sebastien.ponce@cern.ch CERN Thematic CERN School of Computing 2022

Optimizing existing large codebase Measuare Mem threads low Outline Measuring Performance The nightmare of thread safety o What is performance Context and constraints Tools available o ldentifying problems Finding bottlenecks ●Solving problems ②Code modernization oThread contention Improving Memory Handling Low level optimizations ●Context Scope and target o Containers and memory o How to measure o Container reservation Improving Detecting offending code 6 Conclusion 2/57 S.Ponce-CERN

Optimizing existing large codebase 2 / 57 S. Ponce - CERN Measure Modernize Mem threads low level c/c Outline 1 Measuring Performance What is performance ? Tools available Finding bottlenecks 2 Code modernization 3 Improving Memory Handling Context Containers and memory Container reservation Detecting offending code 4 The nightmare of thread safety Context and constraints Identifying problems Solving problems Thread contention 5 Low level optimizations Scope and target How to measure ? Improving 6 Conclusion

Optimizing existing large codebase 4 Measiare Modemi世Mem threads lo Goal of this course o make the theory explained so far more concrete and adapt it to the special case of o dealing with large projects o dealing with legacy code I'll only talk of C++projects 3/57 S.Ponce-CERN

Optimizing existing large codebase 3 / 57 S. Ponce - CERN Measure Modernize Mem threads low level c/c Goal of this course make the theory explained so far more concrete and adapt it to the special case of dealing with large projects dealing with legacy code I’ll only talk of C++ projects

Optimizing existing large codebase Measire Modemise Mem threads Specificity of the exercise Dealing with large code base (Mloc) o most of them unknown to you and(usually)not supported by anyone Dealing with old code using old fashion coding style (e.g.FORTRAN like) modified n times,grew organically o Target latest hardware many cores hyperthreading superscalar 。vectorization 4/57 S.Ponce-CERN

Optimizing existing large codebase 4 / 57 S. Ponce - CERN Measure Modernize Mem threads low level c/c Specificity of the exercise Dealing with large code base (Mloc) most of them unknown to you and (usually) not supported by anyone Dealing with old code using old fashion coding style (e.g. FORTRAN like) modified n times, grew organically Target latest hardware many cores hyperthreading / superscalar vectorization

Optimizing existing large codebase 4 Measuare Mo6en世Mem threads fo Overall strategy First measure o understand where time is spent o understand the main limitations Then attack these limitations ●modernize the code o optimizing memory handling o optimizing parallelism optimizing low level code 5/57 S.Ponce-CERN

Optimizing existing large codebase 5 / 57 S. Ponce - CERN Measure Modernize Mem threads low level c/c Overall strategy First measure ! understand where time is spent understand the main limitations Then attack these limitations modernize the code optimizing memory handling optimizing parallelism optimizing low level code

Optimizing existing large codebase Measure Modemise Mem threads 花5 Measuring Performance Measuring Performance ●What is performance? Tools available o Finding bottlenecks 2 Code modernization Improving Memory Handling The nightmare of thread safety Low level optimizations Conclusion perf tools bottlenecks 6/57 S.Ponce-CERN

Optimizing existing large codebase 6 / 57 S. Ponce - CERN Measure Modernize Mem threads low level c/c perf tools bottlenecks Measuring Performance 1 Measuring Performance What is performance ? Tools available Finding bottlenecks 2 Code modernization 3 Improving Memory Handling 4 The nightmare of thread safety 5 Low level optimizations 6 Conclusion

Optimizing existing large codebase Mem threads 花5 Defining our performance Key question is:what is performance o simply going faster perf tools bottlenecks 7/57 S.Ponce-CERN

Optimizing existing large codebase 7 / 57 S. Ponce - CERN Measure Modernize Mem threads low level c/c perf tools bottlenecks Defining our performance Key question is : what is performance simply going faster ? not at all costs (money, physics results) making better use of the hardware most of the time hardware is cheaper than people ! you need to define your “Key Performance Indicators” e.g. nb Evts / s / ✩ with constant man power for a trigger and get a clear idea of your different costs flops/✩ of your machines including network, cabling, cooling, buildings, ... human costs cost of transition

Optimizing existing large codebase Mem threads 花5 Defining our performance Key question is:what is performance o simply going faster not at all costs(money,physics results) perf tools bottlenecks 7/57 S.Ponce-CERN

Optimizing existing large codebase 7 / 57 S. Ponce - CERN Measure Modernize Mem threads low level c/c perf tools bottlenecks Defining our performance Key question is : what is performance simply going faster ? not at all costs (money, physics results) making better use of the hardware most of the time hardware is cheaper than people ! you need to define your “Key Performance Indicators” e.g. nb Evts / s / ✩ with constant man power for a trigger and get a clear idea of your different costs flops/✩ of your machines including network, cabling, cooling, buildings, ... human costs cost of transition

Optimizing existing large codebase Measure Modemiss Mem threads 花5 Defining our performance Key question is:what is performance o simply going faster not at all costs(money,physics results) o making better use of the hardware perf tools bottlenecks 7/57 S.Ponce-CERN

Optimizing existing large codebase 7 / 57 S. Ponce - CERN Measure Modernize Mem threads low level c/c perf tools bottlenecks Defining our performance Key question is : what is performance simply going faster ? not at all costs (money, physics results) making better use of the hardware most of the time hardware is cheaper than people ! you need to define your “Key Performance Indicators” e.g. nb Evts / s / ✩ with constant man power for a trigger and get a clear idea of your different costs flops/✩ of your machines including network, cabling, cooling, buildings, ... human costs cost of transition

Optimizing existing large codebase Mem threads Defining our performance Key question is:what is performance o simply going faster not at all costs(money,physics results) o making better use of the hardware most of the time hardware is cheaper than people perf tools bottlenecks 7/57 S.Ponce-CERN

Optimizing existing large codebase 7 / 57 S. Ponce - CERN Measure Modernize Mem threads low level c/c perf tools bottlenecks Defining our performance Key question is : what is performance simply going faster ? not at all costs (money, physics results) making better use of the hardware most of the time hardware is cheaper than people ! you need to define your “Key Performance Indicators” e.g. nb Evts / s / ✩ with constant man power for a trigger and get a clear idea of your different costs flops/✩ of your machines including network, cabling, cooling, buildings, ... human costs cost of transition