Withdrawn: 8301404: Replace os::malloc with os::realloc, so we only have 1 code path

[Gerard Ziemski]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:33:47 GMT, Gerard Ziemski <gziemski at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is the 2nd time I am proposing this (controversial?) change, but this time I do have performance numbers, which indicate no change in speed (using NMTBenchmark from https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/23786):
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> proposed:
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> time:72,642,827[ns]
> [samples:807,804] [NMT headers:382,064]
> [malloc#:588,703] [realloc#:12,462] [free#:206,639]
> memory requested:57,274,288 bytes, allocated:69,004,800 bytes
> malloc overhead:4,853,360 bytes [8.47%], NMT headers overhead:6,877,152 bytes [12.01%]
> 
> 
> existing code:
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> 
> time:73,085,446[ns]
> [samples:807,804] [NMT headers:382,064]
> [malloc#:588,703] [realloc#:12,462] [free#:206,639]
> memory requested:57,274,288 bytes, allocated:69,004,800 bytes
> malloc overhead:4,853,360 bytes [8.47%], NMT headers overhead:6,877,152 bytes [12.01%]
> 
> 
> Note: the NMTBenchmark reports `realloc(nullptr)` as `mallocs()`, which is why both versions show the same count for `mallocs/reallocs`.
> 
> The performance is virtually the same where I sampled each test 30 times and took the best (the shortest).
> 
> This proposed change factors out the common code and simplifies both os::malloc and os::realloc. We were able to reduce malloc from 44 lines down to 8 (saving of 36 lines) and realloc from 84 to 55 (29 lines).
> 
> To me the most important part here is that we reduce the number of times that NMT has to interact with the native allocation code.

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23994