RFR: 8343704: Bad GC parallelism with processing Cleaner queues [v16]

[Viktor Klang]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:33:35 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> See the bug for more discussion and reproducer. This PR replaces the ad-hoc linked list with segmented list of arrays. Arrays are easy targets for GC. There are possible improvements here, most glaring is parallelism that is currently knee-capped by global synchronization. The synchronization scheme follows what we have in original code, and I think it is safer to continue with it right now.
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>> I'll put performance data in a separate comment.
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>> Additional testing:
>>  - [x] Original reproducer improves drastically
>>  - [x] New microbenchmark shows no regression on "churning" tests, which covers insertion/removal perf
>>  - [x] New microbenchmark shows improvement on Full GC times (crude, but repeatable), serves as a proxy for reproducer
>>  - [x] `java/lang/ref` tests in release 
>>  - [x] `all` tests in fastdebug
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> Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Locals for head.size

Marked as reviewed by vklang (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22043#pullrequestreview-2473954302