RFR: 8363932: G1: Better distribute KlassCleaningTask [v2]
Thomas Schatzl
tschatzl at openjdk.org
Mon Sep 22 10:19:02 UTC 2025
> Hi all,
>
> please review this change to parallel klass cleaning to improve performance.
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> The current implementation only parallelizes cleaning of weak class links, while the main work, cleaning the object tree is single-threaded. Hence in practice, the current mechanism does not scale beyond 2-3 threads.
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> Cleaning an object graph in an application that loads some jars and instantiates central classes within them, with around 180k classes the current `G1 Complete Cleaning` task (which executes this code) can take 80ms (with 25 threads).
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> The suggested change is to walk the object graph by (live) `ClassLoaderData` klass by klass, fixing only the links of that particular klass.
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> E.g.
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> CLD1 has klasses A, B, C, CLD2 has klasses a, b, c and CLD3 has klasses 0, 1, 2, 4;
> vertical links are subklass references, while horizontal links are sibling references.
>
> j.l.O
> |
> A - B - c - 3
> |
> 0 - 2 - C - 1
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> CLD 3 is dead. Thread 1 claims CLD 1, Thread 2 claims CLD 2 (and nobody claims CLD3 because it's dead).
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> So thread 1, when reaching `A` fixes its subklass link to `C`, and otherwise does nothing with `A`. When looking at `C`, it will remove the link to `1`.
> Thread 2 will only remove the link to `3` of `c`.
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> The result is
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> j.l.O
> |
> A - B - c
> |
> C
>
>
> There should be no unnecessary object graph walking.
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> There is a slight change in printing during unlinking: previously the code, when cleaning subklasses it printed `unlinking class (subclass)`for every class that has been removed on the way to the next live one. In above case, it would print
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> unlinking class (subclass): 0
> unlinking class (subclass): 2
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> With the change, to avoid following the subklasses of the graph twice, it prints
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> unlinking class (subclass): 0
> unlinking class (sibling): 0
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>
> because the string in brackets is the actual link that is followed. I can revert that change.
>
> With the change "Complete Cleaning" time for 200k classes takes 7.6ms (The test is a bit random on when it does the class unloading).
>
> Testing: tier1-5
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
Thomas Schatzl has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
* ayang review
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27316/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27316/files/c6e3522d..4c0a9cbb
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27316&range=01
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27316&range=00-01
Stats: 3 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 3 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27316.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/27316/head:pull/27316
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27316
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