mem: Add utility script to plot DRAM efficiency sweep

This patch adds basic functionality to quickly visualise the output
from the DRAM efficiency script. There are some unfortunate hacks
needed to communicate the needed information from one script to the
other, and we fall back on (ab)using the simout to do this.

As part of this patch we also trim the efficiency sweep to stop at 512
bytes as this should be sufficient for all forseeable DRAMs.

diff --git a/configs/dram/sweep.py b/configs/dram/sweep.py
index c1ee0ceca3aadc6212af2318417ee7576bb07131..9b7cfd35eff7a0dfbef20d6037299fd073be7fd9 100644 (file)
--- a/configs/dram/sweep.py
+++ b/configs/dram/sweep.py
@@ -124,12 +124,16 @@ itt = system.mem_ctrls[0].tBURST.value * 1000000000000
 # assume we start at 0
 max_addr = mem_range.end
 
+# use min of the page size and 512 bytes as that should be more than
+# enough
+max_stride = min(512, page_size)
+
 # now we create the state by iterating over the stride size from burst
-# size to min of the page size and 1 kB, and from using only a single
-# bank up to the number of banks available
+# size to the max stride, and from using only a single bank up to the
+# number of banks available
 nxt_state = 0
 for bank in range(1, nbr_banks + 1):
-    for stride_size in range(burst_size, min(1024, page_size) + 1, burst_size):
+    for stride_size in range(burst_size, max_stride + 1, burst_size):
         cfg_file.write("STATE %d %d DRAM 100 0 %d "
                        "%d %d %d %d %d %d %d %d 1\n" %
                        (nxt_state, period, max_addr, burst_size, itt, itt, 0,
@@ -168,3 +172,6 @@ root.system.mem_mode = 'timing'
 
 m5.instantiate()
 m5.simulate(nxt_state * period)
+
+print "DRAM sweep with burst: %d, banks: %d, max stride: %d" % \
+    (burst_size, nbr_banks, max_stride)

diff --git a/util/dram_sweep_plot.py b/util/dram_sweep_plot.py
new file mode 100755 (executable)
index 0000000..a57de3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/dram_sweep_plot.py
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright (c) 2014 ARM Limited
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+# (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+# OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+#
+# Authors: Andreas Hansson
+
+try:
+
+    from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
+    from matplotlib import cm
+    from matplotlib.ticker import LinearLocator, FormatStrFormatter
+    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+    import numpy as np
+except ImportError:
+    print "Failed to import matplotlib and numpy"
+    exit(-1)
+
+import sys
+import re
+
+# Determine the parameters of the sweep from the simout output, and
+# then parse the stats and plot the 3D surface corresponding to the
+# different combinations of parallel banks, and stride size, as
+# generated by the config/dram/sweep.py script
+def main():
+
+    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
+        print "Usage: ", sys.argv[0], " <simout directory>"
+        exit(-1)
+
+    try:
+        stats = open(sys.argv[1] + '/stats.txt', 'r')
+    except IOError:
+        print "Failed to open ", sys.argv[1] + '/stats.txt', " for reading"
+        exit(-1)
+
+    try:
+        simout = open(sys.argv[1] + '/simout', 'r')
+    except IOError:
+        print "Failed to open ", sys.argv[1] + '/simout', " for reading"
+        exit(-1)
+
+    # Get the burst size, number of banks and the maximum stride from
+    # the simulation output
+    got_sweep = False
+
+    for line in simout:
+        match = re.match("DRAM sweep with "
+                         "burst: (\d+), banks: (\d+), max stride: (\d+)", line)
+        if match:
+            burst_size = int(match.groups(0)[0])
+            banks = int(match.groups(0)[1])
+            max_size = int(match.groups(0)[2])
+            got_sweep = True
+
+    simout.close()
+
+    if not got_sweep:
+        print "Failed to establish sweep details, ensure simout is up-to-date"
+        exit(-1)
+
+
+    # Collect the bus utilisation as our Z-axis, we do this in a 2D
+    # grid corresponding to each iteration over the various stride
+    # sizes.
+    z = []
+    zs = []
+    i = 0
+
+    # Now parse the stats
+    for line in stats:
+        match = re.match(".*busUtil\s+(\d+\.\d+)\s+#.*", line)
+        if match:
+            bus_util = float(match.groups(0)[0])
+            z.append(bus_util)
+            i += 1
+            # If we have completed a sweep over the stride sizes,
+            # start anew
+            if i == max_size / burst_size:
+                zs.append(z)
+                z = []
+                i = 0
+
+    stats.close()
+
+    # We should have a 2D grid with as many columns as banks
+    if len(zs) != banks:
+        print "Unexpected number of data points in stats output"
+        exit(-1)
+
+    fig = plt.figure()
+    ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')
+    X = np.arange(burst_size, max_size + 1, burst_size)
+    Y = np.arange(1, banks + 1, 1)
+    X, Y = np.meshgrid(X, Y)
+
+    # the values in the util are banks major, so we see groups for each
+    # stride size in order
+    Z = np.array(zs)
+
+    surf = ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, rstride=1, cstride=1, cmap=cm.coolwarm,
+                           linewidth=0, antialiased=False)
+
+    # Change the tick frequency to 64
+    start, end = ax.get_xlim()
+    ax.xaxis.set_ticks(np.arange(start, end + 1, 64))
+
+    ax.set_xlabel('Bytes per activate')
+    ax.set_ylabel('Banks')
+    ax.set_zlabel('Efficiency (%)')
+
+    # Add a colorbar
+    fig.colorbar(surf, shrink=0.5, pad=.1, aspect=10)
+
+    plt.show()
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()