Review Request: UseNUMAInterleaving
Deneau, Tom
tom.deneau at amd.com
Wed Aug 17 22:51:12 UTC 2011
Igor --
Regarding your comment #5 below:
> 5. What is the typical allocation granularity on windows? Wouldn't that
> be a problem if we tried to allocate a large heap with small interleaved
> pages? Have you tried using larger interleaving granularity for modern
> windows version? Doing a syscall and creating a segment per even a large
> page seems bit excessive. If you did try that, was there any difference?
>
The allocation granularity for 4K pages on Windows is 64K. (and for 2M pages is 1 page).
I didn't do any precise measurements of how long it took to allocate an interleaved heap at this granularity but I didn't perceive startup slowdowns when allocating a 12G heap. I can try to get some actual measurements. I didn't try any different granularities. Do you think it's worth making the granularity a command line parameter?
-- Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Veresov [mailto:igor.veresov at oracle.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 1:43 PM
> To: hotspot-gc-dev at openjdk.java.net; Deneau, Tom
> Subject: Re: Review Request: UseNUMAInterleaving
>
> Hi, Tom!
>
> Sorry it took me so long to get to that.
>
> 1. I don't think the new version of flag usage is prudent. The reason I
> proposed to introduce a new flag for interleaving is that it would make
> life easier in the future when the proper NUMA-aware implementation of
> GCs are added (G1 would be the most probable candidate). I would propose
> to still have UseNUMAInterleaving flag.
>
> The usage would be as follows:
> - If UseNUMA is specified on Windows that would turn UseNUMAInterleaving
> (for the time being, and that behavior would change in the future).
> - If UseNUMAInterleaving is specified on the command line, you just do
> the interleaving. If you don't add this flag now, you'll have to do that
> anyway as soon as NUMA-aware GCs start supporting windows.
>
> 2. I guess the accepted coding convention in hotspot is that "else"
> should have closing and open bracket be on one line.
> 2846 }
> 2847 else {
> And in all other places...
>
>
> 3. Did you forget to remove that?
> 3149 // tty->print("VirtualQuery AllocBase=%p, RegionSize=%Id\n",
> allocInfo.AllocationBase, allocInfo.RegionSize);
>
> 4. Does it make sense to pass UseLargePages and UseNUMAInterleaving to
> allocate_pages_individually()? They are global variables anyway.
>
> 5. What is the typical allocation granularity on windows? Wouldn't that
> be a problem if we tried to allocate a large heap with small interleaved
> pages? Have you tried using larger interleaving granularity for modern
> windows version? Doing a syscall and creating a segment per even a large
> page seems bit excessive. If you did try that, was there any difference?
>
> 6. The usage of "result" doesn't seem right here, did you mean "if
> (!result) return false;" ?
> 3129 bool result = VirtualAlloc(addr, bytes, MEM_COMMIT,
> PAGE_READWRITE) != 0;
> 3130 if (result == NULL) return false;
>
> 7. Wouldn't it be nicer instead of the idiom
> BOOL ok = SysCall();
> if (!ok) return false;
> just to say
> if (!SysCall()) return false;
> ?
>
> 8. Instead of introducing a global variable numa_used_node_count, could
> you implement os::numa_get_groups_num() that was intended to return this
> number?
> Also build_numa_used_node_list() seems to have the same functionality
> as os::numa_get_leaf_groups() was intended to have. Could you implement
> it and use it instead?
>
> Please name function parameters in lower case with words separated with
> underscores. I know that there are exceptions, especially in
> os_windows.cpp, but it's better if we stick to the general convention.
>
>
> igor
>
>
>
> On 5/26/11 4:37 PM, Deneau, Tom wrote:
> > I have incorporated the change suggested by Paul Hohensee to just use
> the existing UseNUMA flag rather than introduce a new flag. Please let
> me know when you think this will be able to be checked in...
> >
> > The new webrev is at
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tdeneau/UseNUMAInterleaving/webrev.02/
> >
> > -- Tom Deneau, AMD
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Deneau, Tom
> >> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 12:54 PM
> >> To: 'hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net'
> >> Subject: Review Request: UseNUMAInterleaving
> >>
> >> Please review this patch which adds a new flag called
> >> UseNUMAInterleaving. This flag provides a subset of the functionality
> >> provided by UseNUMA, and its main purpose is to provide that subset on
> >> OSes like Windows which do not support the full UseNUMA functionality.
> >> In UseNUMA terminology, UseNUMAInterleaved makes all memory
> >> "numa_global" which is implemented as interleaved.
> >>
> >> The situations where this shows the biggest benefits would be:
> >> * Windows platforms with multiple numa nodes (eg, 4)
> >>
> >> * The JVM process is run across all the nodes (not affinitized to
> one
> >> node).
> >>
> >> * A workload that uses the majority of the cores in the machine,
> so
> >> that the heap is being accessed from many cores, including
> remote
> >> ones.
> >>
> >> * Enough memory per node and a heap size such that the default
> heap
> >> placement policy on windows would end up with the heap (or
> >> nursery) placed on one node.
> >>
> >> jbb2005 and SPECPower_ssj2008 are examples of such workloads. In our
> >> measurements, we have seen some cases where the performance with
> >> UseNUMAInterleaving was 2.7x vs. the performance without. There were
> >> gains of varying sizes across all systems.
> >>
> >> As currently implemented this flag is ignored on Linux and Solaris
> >> since they already support the full UseNUMA flag.
> >>
> >> The webrev is at
> >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tdeneau/UseNUMAInterleaving/webrev.01/
> >>
> >> Summary of changes:
> >>
> >> * Other than adding the new UseNUMAInterleaving global flag, all
> of
> >> the changes are in src/os/windows/vm/os_windows.cpp
> >>
> >> * Some static routines were added to set things up init time.
> These
> >> * check that the required APIs (VirtualAllocExNuma,
> >> GetNumaHighestNodeNumber, GetNumaNodeProcessorMask) exist in
> >> the OS
> >>
> >> * build the list of numa nodes on which this process has
> affinity
> >>
> >> * Changes to os::reserve_memory
> >> * There was already a routine that reserved pages one page at a
> >> time (used for Individual Large Page Allocation on WS2003).
> >> This was abstracted to a separate routine, called
> >> allocate_pages_individually. This gets called both for the
> >> Individual Large Page Allocation thing mentioned above and
> for
> >> UseNUMAInterleaving (for both small and large pages)
> >>
> >> * When used for NUMA Interleaving this just goes thru the numa
> >> node list in a round-robin fashion, using a different one for
> >> each chunk (with 4K pages, the minimum allocation granularity
> >> is 64K, with 2M pages it is 1 Page)
> >>
> >> * Whether we do just a reserve or a combined reserve/commit is
> >> determined by the caller of allocate_pages_individually
> >>
> >> * When used with large pages, we do a Reserve and Commit at
> >> the same time which is the way it always worked and the
> way
> >> it has to work on windows.
> >>
> >> * For small pages, only the reserve is done, the commit will
> >> come later. (which is the way it worked for
> >> non-interleaved)
> >>
> >> * os::commit_memory changes
> >> * If UseNUMAIntereaving is true, os::commit_memory has to check
> >> whether it was being asked to commit memory that might have
> >> come from multiple Reserve allocations, if so, the commits
> >> must also be broken up. We don't keep any data structure to
> >> keep track of this, we just use VirtualQuery which queries
> the
> >> properties of a VA range and can tell us how much came from
> >> one VirtualAlloc call.
> >>
> >> I do not have a bug id for this.
> >>
> >> -- Tom Deneau, AMD
>
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