RFR: 8341334: CDS: Parallel pretouch and relocation

Aleksey Shipilev shade at openjdk.org
Wed Oct 2 10:54:06 UTC 2024


In Leyden performance investigations, we have figured that `ArchiveRelocationMode=0` is saving 5..7 ms on HelloWorld startup. Mainline defaults to `ARM=1`, _losing_ as much. `ARM=0` was switched to `ARM=1` with [JDK-8294323](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/be70bc1c58eaec876aa1ab36eacba90b901ac9b8), which was delivered to JDK 17+ in in Apr 2023.

Profiling shows we spend time mem-faulting the memory loading the RO/RW regions, about 15 MB total. 15 MB in 5ms amounts to >4GB/sec, close to the single-threaded limits. I suspect the impact is larger if we relocate larger Metaspace, e.g. after dumping a CDS archive from a large application. There is little we can do to make the actual relocation part faster: the overwhelming majority of samples is on kernel side.

This PR implements the infrastructure for fast archive workers, and leverages it to do two things: 
1. Parallel pretouch of mmap-ed regions. This causes the faults we would otherwise process in a single thread to be processed in multiple threads. This gives the biggest bang in both `ArchiveRelocationMode`-s.
2. Parallel core regions relocation. The RW/RO regions this code traverses is large, and we can squeeze more performance by parallelizing it. Without pretouch from (1), this step serves as one for RW/RO regions. We can, in principle, only do the pretouch in (1), and have only a few hundred microseconds of unrealized gain.

(I'll put some performance data in the comments to show how these interact)

I think we can do parallelism for heap region relocations as well, but so far I see it is a very small fraction of time spent in loading, so I left it for future work. I think (1) covers a lot of ground for heap region relocations already.

Additional testing:
 - [x] Linux x86_64 server fastdebug, `runtime/cds`
 - [ ] Linux x86_64 server fastdebug, `all`

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Commit messages:
 - Work

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21302/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=21302&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8341334
  Stats: 268 lines in 4 files changed: 256 ins; 1 del; 11 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21302.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/21302/head:pull/21302

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21302


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