RFR: 8048180: Eager reclaim of humongous objects with references [v4]
Thomas Schatzl
tschatzl at openjdk.org
Thu Oct 9 12:39:53 UTC 2025
> Hi all,
>
> please review this change to G1 that enables eager reclaim of humongous objects with references, either objArrays or just really large objects.
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> It works the same as other humongous object's eager reclaim, with the caveat that I disabled it during concurrent mark to avoid problems with SATB. There is fairly extensive documentation about why I think this works, and how in the comment in `g1YoungCollector.cpp`.
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> The test case exhaustively tests all combinations of when a particular type of object should be able to be reclaimed depending on when it is allocated (only for `typeArray` and `objArray` - huge objects work the same as the latter).
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> I added a diagnostic flag `G1EagerReclaimWithRefs` to allow disabling this particular functionality for diagnostic purposes, but I think it's not really necessary, and I'm open to remove it.
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> The following screenshot shows pause times before (purple) and after (brown) of one of the [Optaplanner](https://www.optaplanner.org/blog/2021/09/15/HowMuchFasterIsJava17.html) benchmarks as a result of this change.
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> <img width="702" height="485" alt="Screenshot 2025-09-26 at 13 59 05" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/995e9e27-f861-44bd-8ced-3bd952e314e8" />
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> Testing: new test cases, gha, tier1-5
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> Thanks,
> Thomas
Thomas Schatzl has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains four additional commits since the last revision:
- Merge branch 'master' into 8048180-investigate-eager-reclaim-of-reference-arrays
- * more documentation work
- * walulyai review, improved comments, example
- * also check for actual region reclamation
* enable reference array reclaim anywhere during non-marking, enable during rebuild
* additional test for all situation
* fix guarantee for humongous regular objects
* need to clear card table of eagerly reclaimed regions
* do not redirty recently freed humongous regions to avoid stray card marks
* card table of humongous-continues regions has not been cleared
* some cleanup
* include non-typeArrays allocated after mark start in candidates
* and allow non-typeArray candidates right after marking completed
* update test case to also check allocations after marking
* additional documentation
* rename test case
* more explanations
* move back free humongous regions to post evacuate 2. There does not seem to be a reason to put it there, and it clashes with RecalculateUsedTask.
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27525/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27525/files/7bf219a8..afcac13a
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27525&range=03
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27525&range=02-03
Stats: 33737 lines in 1034 files changed: 19851 ins; 7931 del; 5955 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27525.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/27525/head:pull/27525
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27525
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