RFR (S) JDK-8008962: NPG: Memory regression: One extra Monitor per ConstantPool

Ioi Lam ioi.lam at oracle.com
Fri Apr 12 11:52:19 PDT 2013


Hi,

I have updated the patch to reflect comments I received from Karen offline:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iklam/8008962/constpool_lock_003/ 
<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eiklam/8008962/constpool_lock_003/>

The changes from the last version are only comments and naming of 
fileds/methods. No programmatic changes.

Thanks
- Ioi

On 03/25/2013 02:08 PM, Ioi Lam wrote:
> Jetty numbers before/after my fix (JDK is 8/b81)
>
> BEFORE
> ============================================================================ 
>
> /scratch/iklam/jdk/tools/refworkload/130322/results.cplock_base
>   Benchmark         Samples        Mean Stdev Geomean Weight
>   footprint3_real         1   117032.00
>     jetty                 1   117032.00
> ============================================================================ 
>
>
> AFTER
> ============================================================================ 
>
> /scratch/iklam/jdk/tools/refworkload/130322/results.cplock
>   Benchmark         Samples        Mean Stdev Geomean Weight
>   footprint3_real         1   116728.00
>     jetty                 1   116728.00
> ============================================================================ 
>
>
> So saving of about 300K.
>
> Also, for curiosity, I have tested jetty for the promoted JDK8 builds 
> from the past 6 months -- from /java/re, linux_amd64:
>
> b57, according to the bug report 8001590, is the last version that did 
> not have NPG
> b78 has a big regression. It's fixed somewhat in b82 but still we are 
> much worse than b57.
>
> ========================================================================== 
>
>       Samples        size    stddev         date
> b55         6    96644.67     27.18   09/06/2012
> b56         6    97334.00     26.50   09/13/2012
> b57         6    97326.67     73.13   09/20/2012 << Last w/o NPG
> b58         6   103212.00     70.70   09/27/2012
> b59         6   103220.67     46.61   10/03/2012
> b60         6   103187.33    102.68   10/11/2012
> b61         6   100036.00     79.44   10/18/2012
> b62         6   100020.67     78.77   10/25/2012
> b63         6   100323.33    135.85   11/01/2012
> b64         6   100297.33     76.72   11/08/2012
> b65         6   101616.67     70.63   11/15/2012
> b66         6   101445.33     71.63   11/29/2012
> b67         6   101135.33     80.26   12/06/2012
> b68         6   101596.00     89.66   12/13/2012
> b69         6   101644.00     72.62   12/20/2012
> b70         6   101716.00    106.19   12/27/2012
> b71         6   101852.00    119.71   01/03/2013
> b72         6   101844.67    144.12   01/10/2013
> b73         6   102121.33     83.20   01/16/2013
> b74         6   102473.33     61.43   01/24/2013
> b75         6   101633.33     61.54   01/31/2013
> b76         6   101760.00     65.73   02/07/2013
> b77         6   101188.00     45.75   02/14/2013
> b78         6   117358.67    154.79   02/21/2013 << big regression
> b79         6   117236.67     58.97   02/28/2013
> b80         6   117454.00    198.63   03/07/2013
> b81         6   117308.67     30.61   03/14/2013
> b82         6   106822.00    280.24   03/21/2013
> ========================================================================== 
>
>
> - Ioi
>
> On 03/21/2013 10:46 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> This looks okay to me. Do we have updated Jetty figures to show the 
>> memory regression has gone/reduced?
>>
>> Aside: Your webrev frames view is broken - the navigation frame gives 
>> a 404 error.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>> On 22/03/2013 3:12 PM, Ioi Lam wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I have updated the patch. Please review
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iklam/8008962/constpool_lock_002/
>>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eiklam/8008962/constpool_lock_002/>
>>>
>>> The only change is to check if the lock is not yet initialized. This
>>> happens only during class file parsing, so locking is not necessary.
>>>
>>>        oop cplock = this_oop->lock();
>>>        ObjectLocker ol(cplock , THREAD, cplock != NULL);
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> - Ioi
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/18/2013 09:32 AM, Ioi Lam wrote:
>>>> On 03/17/2013 12:43 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> There are various places such as ConstantPool::klass_at_impl that 
>>>>>> need
>>>>>> to make atomic modifications of an CP entry and its corresponding 
>>>>>> tag.
>>>>>> These can be called well after the class has finished 
>>>>>> initialization.
>>>>>
>>>>> The question is more, can they be called before or during class
>>>>> initialization?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Klass::init_lock is initialized in ClassFileParser::parseClassFile().
>>>> However, the CP is created before this. So there's a chance that the
>>>> CP may try to lock on ConstantPool::lock() before Klass::init_lock()
>>>> is initialized (or even before ConstantPool::_pool_holder is
>>>> initialized).
>>>>
>>>> Nevertheless, I have not (yet) seen this happening with a fair amount
>>>> of stress tests.
>>>>
>>>> Also, up to the initialization of Klass::init_lock(), only the
>>>> ClassFileParser has a reference to the InstanceKlass and the
>>>> ConstantPool, so everything is single threaded. I will change the code
>>>> to be something like this (similar to what was done in InstanceKlass
>>>> with the init_lock):
>>>>
>>>>      oop cplock = lock();
>>>>      ObjectLocker ol(cplock, THREAD, cplock != NULL);
>>>>
>>>>> - if we don't need to inflate (do we have any stats on this?) then we
>>>>> don't get any overhead beyond the int[0]
>>>>
>>>> I don't have any stats. How would one go about collecting the locking
>>>> stats on specific objects?
>>>>
>>>> Looking at the code, most use of the lock would be in
>>>> ConstantPool::klass_at_impl(), and only if the slot is still an
>>>> unresolved class. Also, the lock is usually held for a very short
>>>> period of time, unless you hit an exception, or hit a GC at this block
>>>>
>>>>       MonitorLockerEx ml(this_oop->lock());
>>>>       // Only updated constant pool - if it is resolved.
>>>>       do_resolve = this_oop->tag_at(which).is_unresolved_klass();
>>>>       if (do_resolve) {
>>>>         ClassLoaderData* this_key =
>>>> this_oop->pool_holder()->class_loader_data();
>>>>         this_key->record_dependency(k(), CHECK_NULL); // Can throw
>>>> OOM  <<<<<< GC may happen here
>>>>         this_oop->klass_at_put(which, k());
>>>>       }
>>>>
>>>> So my wild guess is you rarely would get a contention on the lock.
>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a possibility of a self-deadlock if during class
>>>>>>> initialization we have to lock the constant-pool ourselves?
>>>>>> The locking is done using ObjectLocker with an oop, so it is self
>>>>>> reentrant, just like a regular Java monitor entry. Unlike mutexes,
>>>>>> there
>>>>>> won't be self deadlocks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay. But recursive locking can also be problematic if you don't
>>>>> fully understand the circumstances under which it can occur - because
>>>>> you effectively lose atomicity relative to actions in the current
>>>>> thread.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry I don't quote understand this. Could you explain more?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot!
>>>>
>>>> - Ioi
>>>
>

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