RFR (XL): 8218668: Clean up evacuation of optional collection set
Thomas Schatzl
thomas.schatzl at oracle.com
Mon Mar 4 11:56:24 UTC 2019
Hi all,
please have a look at the following change that fixes a few (overall
minor) problems with the Abortable Mixed GC implementation introduced
in JDK12.
Mainly, the collection of the optional collection set has been kind-of
tacked on as a completely separate thing with its own collection set,
its own iteration loop etc.
This change integrates the optional evacuation much better imo into the
existing program flow.
Automatically it fixes a few issues with the existing implementation
that were mostly already found and decided to be benign enough to move
to another (this) stage (from the CR):
- the optional collection set evacuation duplicates quite a bit of
"first pass" evacuation code while conceptually very similar. This
should be unified and cleaned up as much as possible.
- with the optional collection set the code creates copies of parts of
the candidate collection set, first popping it from it and then pushing
back leftovers. This is not necessary, an index (cursor) within the
candidate collection set is sufficient.
- if there is an evacuation failure during evacuating an optional part,
we try to fix up self-looped oops for the entire collection set which
is not necessary. Obviously only regions part of the current collection
pass need to be looked at.
- the work distribution when evacuating an optional collection set is
bad: every thread processes the same regions in the same sequence
- calculation of total number of cards scanned and total scan RS time
does not take optional evacuation into account
- optional collection set log does not show code roots time (from the
heap region's remembered sets) and termination time completely
- optional collection also does not add "code root fixup time"
- optional collection does not add to the "par time" (which is actually
the time for the parallel evacuation), which means that the calculation
for the "Other" time is wrong (result too high) impacting prediction
(being too conservative)
- the opt_index_in_cset of a heap region is not reset for all regions
every time after GC. Since it is properly overwritten as needed this
seems benign.
Conceptually, nothing really changed: G1 young gc performs evacuation
of the "initial collection set", i.e. young gen + an initial set of old
gen regions (mixed gc only), and after that an incremental collection
of optional regions as before (mixed gc only). However I tried to
improve naming to work that out a bit better.
Originally I wanted to make the code even more integrated, particularly
merge the two gangtasks to evacuate the initial collection set and the
optional collection set; however I could not find a good way due to the
necessary MarkScopes.
Previous recent changes were basically preparations for this change
that were split out, but I strongly recommend looking at "JDK-8219100:
Improve do_collection_pause_at_safepoint" also out for review right now
before this change as it moves around quite a bit of code, and you
might feel a bit lost with the baseline code otherwise.
CR:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8218668
Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8218668/webrev/
Testing:
hs-tier1-8; no performance differences
Thanks,
Thomas
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