Call For Discussion: New Project: Atlantis

JC Beyler jcbeyler at google.com
Mon Nov 26 19:22:30 UTC 2018


Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for the interest and sounds good to me! We could start conversations
on this topic once the project opens and see what we could do in that
problem-space :)
Jc

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 7:46 PM Jonathan Lu <chuansheng.lcs at alibaba-inc.com>
wrote:

> Hi JC,
>
> Personally, I like this idea.
>
> And I'm especially interested in the heap dumping part.
> It costs a lot to create, transfer, and analyze huge heap dump files for
> my applications.
> Maybe some fundamental changes can be explored in this project, I guess,
> such as making an enhanced format of heap dump file :)
>
> Thank you
> Jonathan
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> From:JC Beyler <jcbeyler at google.com>
> Send Time:2018年11月20日(星期二) 02:48
> To:discuss <discuss at openjdk.java.net>
> Cc:serguei.spitsyn <serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com>
> Subject:Call For Discussion: New Project: Atlantis
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to start a discussion about the possible creation of the
> Atlantis Project with myself, Jean Christophe Beyler, as the Lead and the
> Serviceability group as the sponsoring group.
>
> In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines [1], this project would provide a
> venue to explore and incubate monitoring and performance analysis features
> that could be integrated into the Hotspot JVM and the JVM Tool Interface.
> This includes working, evaluating, and incubating a Thread-Sanitizer
> implementation [2] for Java.
>
> The Google platform team has historically worked on providing new features,
> including monitoring hooks due to certain monitoring features not being
> available in a low-overhead, turned on-by-default manner. Therefore, for
> Google Java users, the platform team augmented or added mechanisms to
> assess various metrics such as but not limited to:
>
> - Thread Sanitizer support for Java (see JDK-8208520 [2]) (though this one
> specifically is not a low-overhead one, sorry ;-))
> - Lock contention profiles to better understand where threads are spending
> time in locks
> - Heap dumping mechanisms to improve heap dump times for large heaps
> - Efficient thread tagging to help filter profiling
> - etc.
>
> All of the above have added changes to the JDK in various forms and the
> Atlantis project proposes to investigate, in the open, how these changes
> could be made general enough to be pushed into the mainline, or should be
> dropped due to being too specific or could be done using other existing
> mechanisms. The project would not be a Google-only project and will have a
> mailing list to discuss and potentially accept any contribution trying to
> extend and/or enhance current monitoring systems.
>
> The evaluation criteria to consider a feature/improvement includes but
> would not be limited to:
>
>      * Performance: metrics and new hooks should not be hurting performance
> when disabled
>      * General usefulness for the community at large
>      * No working alternatives: sometimes it may be that there are new
> technologies available (ie JFR events for example) that might be leveraged
> to deprecate existing solutions
>
> If one or more prototypes indicate a new metric, a new monitoring system,
> or a feature offers substantial improvements, the Atlantis project would
> shepherd a JEP to integrate the change into the mainline of OpenJDK.
>
> The current suggested initial Reviewers and Committers would be but is most
> likely not going to be limited to:
> * Jean Christophe Beyler
> * Serguei Spitsyn
> * Chuck Rasbold
> * Liam Cushon
>
> What do you all think? :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Jc
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project
> [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8208520
>
>
>

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Thanks,
Jc


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