RFR: 8244550: Unsafe::allocateInstance does redundant transitions

[Claes Redestad]

Thanks, Coleen!

/Claes

On 2020-05-07 01:16, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
> Looks good to me!
> Coleen
> 
> On 5/6/20 7:09 PM, Claes Redestad wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Unsafe::allocateInstance transitions from VM to native only to call
>> jni_AllocObject, transitioning back into VM.
>>
>> This contributes measurably to overhead when run in interpreter and C1,
>> so improving this helps startup/warmup. (C2 replaces with an intrinsic.)
>>
>> Patch moves code to allocate instance into InstanceKlass, so that it
>> can be shared between jni.cpp and unsafe.cpp, and changes to the unsafe
>> call doesn't go via jni_AllocObject.
>>
>> Patch: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8244550/open.00/
>> Bug:   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8244550
>>
>> Testing: tier1-3, reduces U::allocateInstance overhead per call from
>> ~100ns to ~60ns
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> /Claes
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