RFR: 8254078: DataOutputStream is very slow post-disabling of Biased Locking [v3]

Andrew Haley aph at openjdk.java.net
Thu Oct 8 09:31:57 UTC 2020


> DataOutputStream is very slow post-disabling of Biased Locking. This
> was discovered when benchmarking a transaction library, which showed
> significant performance loss when moving to JDK 15. WIth some small
> changes to DataOutputStream we can get the performance back. There's a
> JMH benchmark at
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/JDK-8254078/jmh-tests.tar
> 
> Some Stream classes use very fine-grained locking.
> 
> In particular, writeInt is defined like this:
> 
>         out.write((v >>> 24) & 0xFF);
>         out.write((v >>> 16) & 0xFF);
>         out.write((v >>> 8) & 0xFF);
>         out.write((v >>> 0) & 0xFF);
>         incCount(4);
> 
> Unfortunately, ByteArrayOutputStream.write(byte) is defined like this:
> 
>     public synchronized void write(int b) {
>         ensureCapacity(count + 1);
>         buf[count] = (byte) b;
>         count += 1;
>     }
> 
> so we acquire and release a lock for every byte that is output.
> 
>  For example, writing 4kb of ints goes from 17.3 us/op to 53.9 us/op when biased locking is disabled:
> 
> 
> +UseBiasedLocking DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverByteArray avgt 6 53.895 ± 5.126 us/op
> -UseBiasedLocking DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverByteArray avgt 6 17.291 ± 4.430 us/op
> 
> There are refactorings of DataOutputStream we can do to mitigate this.

Andrew Haley has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:

 - 8254078: DataOutputStream is very slow post-disabling of Biased Locking
 - 8254078: DataOutputStream is very slow post-disabling of Biased Locking

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/542/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/542/files/8379b4f3..20ee0e6f

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=542&range=02
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=542&range=01-02

  Stats: 39 lines in 3 files changed: 2 ins; 30 del; 7 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/542.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/542/head:pull/542

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/542


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