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

Ioi Lam ioi.lam at oracle.com
Sun Apr 14 21:02:55 PDT 2013


On 04/14/2013 08:13 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 13/04/2013 4:52 AM, Ioi Lam wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I don't see the naming change referred to in the comment:
>
> InstanceKlass::_init_lock (renamed to _per_class_lock) for locking
>
Oops, thanks for noticing. The comment is wrong. Per Karen's request, I 
have changed the name back to the original name (_init_lock). I will fix 
the comment when committing it.

- Ioi

> ??
>
> David
>
>> 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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