[master] Integrated: 8346011: [Lilliput] Compact Full-GC Forwarding

[Roman Kennke]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:46:08 GMT, Roman Kennke <rkennke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The current forwarding scheme that is used during full-GC overrides much of the mark-word. This is a problem for current compact headers when the heap is larger than 8TB (in which case we currently disable compact headers altogether) and becomes a much worse issue with 4-byte-compact-headers, because it would override the compressed class-pointer in the upper header bits.
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> This implementation uses a side-table (currently 1/512th of the heap size) to store part of the target addresses, and 9 bits in the header for the rest of it. For the full description of the algorithm, see top of fullGCForwarding.hpp.
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> Some performance testing results: https://gist.github.com/rkennke/5a53d21337fc6e696041062d6b972dd6
> Interpretation: The new full-GC forwarding is slightly slower across the board. The different is almost completely a constant ~10ms. This corresponds to the setup costs of allocating and clearing the side-table. That cost could be reduced by allocating and clearing the table up-front, when the GC gets initialized, and then only ever clearing the table when full-GC is finished. That brings down the numbers to almost exactly baseline level, but I think we wouldn't want to hold on to that memory all the time, especially not in G1 and Shenandoah, where full-GC is an exceptional mode that is not intended to run frequently.
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> Testing:
>  - [x] hotspot_gc
>  - [x] tier1
>  - [x] tier1 +UseSerialGC
>  - [x] tier1 +UseParallelGC
>  - [x] tier1 +UseShenandoahGC

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 33d90b2c
Author:    Roman Kennke <rkennke at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/lilliput/commit/33d90b2ced7f07baab28846ce4afbcc132a31ab6
Stats:     548 lines in 14 files changed: 469 ins; 31 del; 48 mod

8346011: [Lilliput] Compact Full-GC Forwarding

Reviewed-by: stuefe

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/lilliput/pull/191