G1 Performance [Was: JEP 248: Make G1 the Default Garbage Collector]

[Vitaly Davidovich]

IIRC Erik's proposal involves TLB shootdowns, which I'm not sure will speed
this up.  A few months back there was a discussion around this in the
context of adding full fence with CMS when UseConditionalCardMarking is
enabled (which I'm not sure if that change went in actually) and
interaction with precleaning.

There was also talk of making G1 default ergonomically, with it being on
for large heaps.  I think that makes sense.

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On Jul 29, 2015 1:56 PM, "Doug Lea" <dl at cs.oswego.edu> wrote:

> On 07/29/2015 12:09 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
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>> I am concerned that G1 does not perform well with some important
>> workloads.  In particular, on heavily-loaded systems some
>> multi-threaded programs which generate a lot of garbage run
>> significantly more slowly with G1.  I've been measuring the
>> performance loss and it's about 20-30%, depending on the application.
>>
>
> The problem is that there is a full memory fence when issuing
> cross-region GC write barriers. Most concurrent producer-consumer
> designs hit this case frequently, and can run almost arbitrarily
> slower, down to the rate of issuing fences (MFENCE/DMB/etc).
> I know that Erik Osterlund (and possibly others) are looking into ways
> of removing this fence. I sure hope they succeed before jdk9 ships!
>
> -Doug
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