RFR: 8185005: Improve performance of ThreadMXBean.getThreadInfo(long ids[], int maxDepth)

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Sep 24 22:45:10 UTC 2019


Looks good to me.

Thanks,
David

On 25/09/2019 2:36 am, Daniil Titov wrote:
> Hi Daniel, David and Serguei,
> 
> Please review a new version of the fix (webrev.08) that as Daniel suggested renames
> ThreadTable to ThreadIdTable (related classes and variables are renamed as well) and
> corrects formatting issues. There are no other changes in this webrev.08 comparing
> to the previous version webrev.07.
> 
> Testing: Mach5 tier1, tier2, tier3, tier4, and tier5 tests successfully passed.
> 
> Webrev: https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dtitov/8185005/webrev.08/
> Bug: : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8185005
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniil
> 
> On 9/20/19, 2:59 PM, "Daniel D. Daugherty" <daniel.daugherty at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>      Daniil,
>      
>      Thanks for sticking with this project through the many versions.
>      Sorry this review is late...
>      
>      
>      On 9/19/19 8:30 PM, Daniil Titov wrote:
>      > Hi David and Serguei,
>      >
>      > Please review new version of the fix that includes the changes Serguei suggested:
>      >   1. If racing threads initialize the thread table only one of these threads will populate the table with the threads from the thread list
>      >   2. The code that adds the thread to the tread table is put inside Threads_lock to ensure that we cannot accidentally add the thread
>      >       that has just passed the removal point in ThreadsSMRSupport::remove_thread()
>      >
>      > The changes are in ThreadTable::lazy_initialize() method only.
>      >
>      > Testing:  Mach5 tier1, tier2, tier3, tier4, and tier5 tests successfully passed.
>      >
>      > Webrev: https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dtitov/8185005/webrev.07/
>      
>      src/hotspot/share/runtime/mutexLocker.hpp
>           No comments.
>      
>      src/hotspot/share/runtime/mutexLocker.cpp
>           No comments.
>      
>      src/hotspot/share/runtime/threadSMR.cpp
>           L623:         MutexLocker ml(Threads_lock);
>           L626:         if (!thread->is_exiting()) {
>               Re: discussion about is_exiting()
>      
>               The header comment is pretty clear:
>      
>                 src/hotspot/share/runtime/thread.hpp:
>      
>                   // thread has called JavaThread::exit() or is terminated
>                   bool is_exiting() const;
>      
>               is_exiting() might become true right after you have called it,
>               but its purpose is to ask the question and not prevent the
>               condition from becoming true. As David said, you should consider
>               it an optimization. If you happen to see the condition is true,
>               then you know that the JavaThread isn't going to be around much
>               longer and should act accordingly.
>      
>               The is_exiting() implementation is:
>      
>                 inline bool JavaThread::is_exiting() const {
>                   // Use load-acquire so that setting of _terminated by
>                   // JavaThread::exit() is seen more quickly.
>                   TerminatedTypes l_terminated = (TerminatedTypes)
>                       OrderAccess::load_acquire((volatile jint *) &_terminated);
>                   return l_terminated == _thread_exiting ||
>      check_is_terminated(l_terminated);
>                 }
>      
>               and it depends on the JavaThread's _terminated field value.
>      
>                 // JavaThread termination support
>                 enum TerminatedTypes {
>                  _not_terminated = 0xDEAD - 2,
>                  _thread_exiting,                             //
>      JavaThread::exit() has been called for this thread
>                  _thread_terminated,                          // JavaThread
>      is removed from thread list
>                  _vm_exited                                   // JavaThread
>      is still executing native code, but VM is terminated
>                                                               // only VM_Exit
>      can set _vm_exited
>                 };
>      
>               so the JavaThread's _terminated field can get set to
>               _thread_exiting independent of the Threads_lock, but
>               it can't get set to _thread_terminated without the
>               Threads_lock.
>      
>               So by grabbing the Threads_lock on L623, you make sure
>               that ThreadTable::add_thread(java_tid, thread) does not
>               add a JavaThread that's not on the ThreadsList. It might
>               still become is_exiting() == true right after your
>      
>                 L626         if (!thread->is_exiting()) {
>      
>               but it will still be on the main ThreadsList. And that
>               means that when the JavaThread is removed from the main
>               ThreadsList, you'll still call:
>      
>                 L931:     ThreadTable::remove_thread(tid);
>      
>           L624:         // Must be inside the lock to ensure that we don't
>      add the thread to the table
>               typo: s/the thread/a thread/
>      
>           L633:       return thread;
>               nit - L633 - indented too far (should be 2 spaces)
>      
>      src/hotspot/share/services/threadTable.hpp
>           L42:   static void lazy_initialize(const ThreadsList *threads);
>               nit - put space between '*' the variable:
>      
>                 static void lazy_initialize(const ThreadsList* threads);
>      
>               like you do in your other decls.
>      
>           L45:   // Lookup and inserts
>               Perhaps:  // Lookup and list management
>      
>           L60-61 - nit - please delete these blank lines.
>      
>      src/hotspot/share/services/threadTable.cpp
>           L28: #include "runtime/timerTrace.hpp"
>               nit - This should be after threadSMR.hpp... (alpha sorted order)
>      
>           L39: static const size_t DefaultThreadTableSizeLog = 8;
>               nit - your other 'static const' are not CamelCase. Why is this one?
>      
>           L45: static ThreadTableHash* volatile _local_table = NULL;
>           L50: static volatile size_t _current_size = 0;
>           L51: static volatile size_t _items_count = 0;
>               nit - can you group the file statics together? (up with L41).
>      
>           L60:     _tid(tid),_java_thread(java_thread) {}
>               nit - space after ','
>      
>           L62   jlong tid() const { return _tid;}
>           L63   JavaThread* thread() const {return _java_thread;}
>               nit - space before '}'
>               nit - space after '{' on L63.
>      
>           L70:     static uintx get_hash(Value const& value, bool* is_dead) {
>               Parameter 'is_dead' is not used.
>      
>           L74:     static void* allocate_node(size_t size, Value const& value) {
>               Parameter 'value' is not used.
>      
>           L93: void ThreadTable::lazy_initialize(const ThreadsList *threads) {
>               Re: discussion about lazy_initialize() racing with
>                   ThreadsList::find_JavaThread_from_java_tid()
>      
>               There's a couple of aspects to these two pieces of code racing
>               with each other and racing with new thread creation. Racing with
>               new thread creation is the easy one:
>      
>                 If a new thread isn't added to the ThreadTable by
>                 ThreadsSMRSupport::add_thread() calling
>      ThreadTable::add_thread(),
>                 then the point in the future where someone calls
>                 find_JavaThread_from_java_tid() will add it to the table due to
>                 the linear search when ThreadTable::find_thread_by_tid()
>                 returns NULL.
>      
>              As for multi-threads calling
>      ThreadsList::find_JavaThread_from_java_tid()
>              at the same time which results in multi-threads in lazy_initialize()
>              at the same time...
>      
>              - ThreadTable creation will be linear due to ThreadTableCreate_lock.
>                After _is_initialized is set to true, then no more callers to
>                lazy_initialize() will be in the "if (!_is_initialized)" block.
>              - Once the ThreadTable is created, then multi-threads can be
>                executing the for-loop to add their ThreadsList entries to
>                the ThreadTable. There will be a bit of Threads_lock contention
>                as each of the multi-threads tries to add their entries and
>                there will be some wasted work since the multi-threads will
>                likely have similar ThreadLists.
>      
>              Of course, once _is_initialized is set to true, then any caller
>              to lazy_initialize() will return quickly and
>              ThreadsList::find_JavaThread_from_java_tid() will call
>              ThreadTable::find_thread_by_tid(). If the target java_tid isn't
>              found, then we do the linear search thing here and add the
>              the entry if we find a match in our current ThreadsList. Since
>              we're only adding the one here, we only contend for the Threads_lock
>              here if we find it.
>      
>              If ThreadsList::find_JavaThread_from_java_tid() is called with a
>              target java_tid for a JavaThread that was created after the
>              ThreadsList object that the caller has in hand for the
>              find_JavaThread_from_java_tid() call, then, of course, that
>              target 'java_tid' won't be found because the JavaThread was
>              added the main ThreadsList _after_ the ThreadsList object was
>              created by the caller. Of course, you have to ask where the
>              target java_tid value came from since the JavaThread wasn't
>              around when the ThreadsList::find_JavaThread_from_java_tid()
>              call was made with that target java_tid value...
>      
>           L99:         // being concurently populated during the initalization.
>               Typos? Perhaps:
>                        // to be concurrently populated during initialization.
>      
>               But I think those two comment lines are more appropriate above
>               this line:
>      
>               L96:       MutexLocker ml(ThreadTableCreate_lock);
>      
>           L112:           // Must be inside the lock to ensure that we don't
>      add the thread to the table
>               typo: s/the thread/a thread/
>      
>           L141:   return ((double)_items_count)/_current_size;
>               nit - need spaces around '/'.
>      
>           L177:   bool equals(ThreadTableEntry **value, bool* is_dead) {
>               nit - put space between '**' the variable:
>                   bool equals(ThreadTableEntry** value,
>      
>               Parameter 'is_dead' is not used.
>      
>           L214:   while(true) {
>               nit - space before '('.
>      
>      
>      Short version: Thumbs up.
>      
>      Longer version: I don't think I've spotted anything other than nits here.
>      Mostly I've just looked for multi-threaded races, proper usage of the
>      Thread-SMR stuff, and minimal impact in the case where the new
>      ThreadsTable is never needed.
>      
>      Dan
>      
>      P.S.
>      ThreadTable is a bit of misnomer. What you really have here is
>      a ThreadIdTable, but I'm really late to the code review flow
>      with that comment...
>      
>      
>      > Bug : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8185005
>      >
>      > Thank you!
>      > --Daniil
>      
>      
> 
> 


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