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Doing ABC runs in parallel can actually make things slower when every ABC run requires spawning an ABC subprocess --- especially when using popen(), which on glibc does not use vfork(). What seems to happen is that constant fork()ing keeps making the main process data pages copy-on-write, so the main process code that is setting up each ABC call takes a lot of minor page-faults, slowing it down. The solution is pretty straightforward although a little tricky to implement. We just reuse ABC subprocesses. Instead of passing the ABC script name on the command line, we spawn an ABC REPL and pipe a command into it to source the script. When that's done we echo an `ABC_DONE` token instead of exiting. Yosys then puts the ABC process onto a stack which we can pull from the next time we do an ABC run. For one of our large designs, this is an additional 5x speedup of the primary AbcPass. It does 5155 ABC runs, all very small; runtime of the AbcPass goes from 760s to 149s (not very scientific benchmarking but the effect size is large). |
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