RFR: 8369048: GenShen: Defer ShenFreeSet::available() during rebuild [v4]

William Kemper wkemper at openjdk.org
Fri Jan 9 23:51:48 UTC 2026


On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 23:18:18 GMT, Kelvin Nilsen <kdnilsen at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This code introduces a new rebuild-freeset lock for purposes of coordinating the freeset rebuild activities and queries as to memory available for allocation in the mutator partition.
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>> This addresses a problem that results if available memory is probed while we are rebuilding the freeset.
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>> Rather than using the existing global heap lock to synchronize these activities, a new more narrowly scoped lock is introduced.  This allows the available memory to be probed even when other activities hold the global heap lock for reasons other than rebuilding the freeset, such as when they are allocating memory.  It is known that the global heap lock is heavily contended for certain workloads, and using this new lock avoids adding to contention for the global heap lock.
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> Kelvin Nilsen has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Add rebuild synchronization to capacity() and used()

Marked as reviewed by wkemper (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27612#pullrequestreview-3645962594


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