<Swing Dev> <AWT Dev> sun.awt.X11 logs still using String + (waste)

Anthony Petrov anthony.petrov at oracle.com
Thu Mar 21 22:26:33 UTC 2013


Hi Laurent,

The fix looks great to me. Thank you very much.

We still need at least one review, though. Hopefully net-dev@ and/or 
swing-dev@ folks might help us out a bit.

--
best regards,
Anthony

On 3/20/2013 15:10, Anthony Petrov wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> Thanks for the patch. I've filed a bug at: 
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8010297
> (should be available in a day or two)
> 
> and published a webrev generated from your patch at:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~anthony/8-55-isLoggable-8010297.0/
> 
> I'm also copying swing-dev@ and net-dev@ because the fix affects those 
> areas too. I myself will review the fix a bit later but am sending it 
> now for other folks to take a look at it.
> 
> On 3/19/2013 15:29, Laurent Bourgès wrote:
>> I am sorry I started modifying PlatformLogger and reverted changes to 
>> this class as it is another topic to be discussed later: isLoggable 
>> performance and waste due to HashMap<Integer, Level> leads to Integer 
>> allocations (boxing).
> 
> I saw your message to core-libs-dev@, so I just dropped all changes to 
> the PlatformLogger from this patch.
> 
>> Finally, I have another question related to the WrapperGenerator 
>> class: it generates a lot of empty log statements (XEvent):
>>
>>  log 
>> <http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/jdk/openjdk/6-b14/sun/awt/X11/XWrapperBase.java#XWrapperBase.0log>.finest 
>> <http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/jdk/openjdk/6-b14/java/util/logging/Logger.java#Logger.finest%28java.lang.String%29>(""); 
>>
>>
>> Is it really useful to have such statements ? I would keep logs with 
>> non empty messages only.
>>
>> See WrapperGenerator:753:
>>         String s_log = (generateLog?"log.finest(\"\");":"");
> 
> I believe they're used for log formatting purposes to separate numerous 
> events in a log (e.g. think of mouse-move events - there can be hundreds 
> of them in a raw).
> 
> 
> Please note that the hg export format is not that useful unless you're 
> assigned an OpenJDK id already (please see Dalibor's message for 
> details) because I can't import it directly. So for the time being you 
> could send just raw patches (i.e. the output of hg diff only - and 
> there's no need to commit your changes in this case). Also, please note 
> that the mailing lists strip attachments. The reason I got it is because 
> I was listed in To: of your message. So when sending patches you can:
> 1) post them inline, or
> 2) attach them and add a person to To: of your message, or
> 3) upload them somewhere on the web.
> However, it would be best if you could generate a webrev for your 
> changes and upload it somewhere. Currently this is the standard format 
> for reviewing fixes in OpenJDK.
> 
> -- 
> best regards,
> Anthony
> 
>>
>> Regards,
>> Laurent
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/3/19 Laurent Bourgès <bourges.laurent at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:bourges.laurent at gmail.com>>
>>
>>     Hi antony,
>>
>>     FYI I started reviewing and fixing all PlatformLogger use cases (not
>>     too many as I thought first) mainly used by awt / swing projects to
>>     provide you a patch on latest JDK8 source code:
>>
>>     I am adding the log level check when it is missing:
>>     if (...log.isLoggable(PlatformLogger.xxx)) {
>>         log...
>>     }
>>
>>     I will not change the String + operations to use the message format
>>     syntax in this patch.
>>
>>     Do you accept such patch / proposed contribution ?
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Laurent
>>
>>
>>     2013/3/18 Laurent Bourgès <bourges.laurent at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:bourges.laurent at gmail.com>>
>>
>>         Hi antony,
>>
>>         2 different things:
>>         1/ PlatformLogger was patched (doLog method) to avoid string
>>         operations (message formatting) for disabled logs (patch
>>         submiited on JDK8 and JDK7u):
>>         
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-April/002751.html
>>
>>         2/ I looked 2 hours ago on JDK7u AND JDK8 source codes and both
>>         still have:
>>         - log statements WITHOUT log level check : if
>>         (log.isLoggable(PlatformLogger.FINE)) log.fine(...);
>>         - string operations (+) in log calls that could be improved
>>         using the message format syntax (String + args): for example,
>>         avoid using PlatformLogger.fine(String + ...) in favor of using
>>         PlatformLogger.fine(String msg, Object... params)
>>
>>         I reported in my previous mail several cases where the
>>         isLoggable() call is missing and leads to useless String
>>         operations but also method calls (Component.paramString() for
>>         example).
>>
>>         Finally, I also provided other possible cases (using grep);
>>         maybe there is a better alternative to find all occurences of
>>         String operations in log calls.
>>
>>         Regards,
>>         Laurent
>>
>>         2013/3/18 Anthony Petrov <anthony.petrov at oracle.com
>>         <mailto:anthony.petrov at oracle.com>>
>>
>>             Hi Laurent,
>>
>>             Normally we fix an issue in JDK 8 first, and then back-port
>>             the fix to a 7u release. You're saying that in JDK 8 the
>>             problem isn't reproducible anymore. Can you please
>>             investigate (using the Mercurial history log) what exact fix
>>             resolved it in JDK 8?
>>
>>             --
>>             best regards,
>>             Anthony
>>
>>             On 03/18/13 15:09, Laurent Bourgès wrote:
>>
>>                 Dear all,
>>
>>                 I run recently netbeans profiler on my swing application
>>                 (Aspro2:
>>                 http://www.jmmc.fr/aspro) under linux x64 platform and I
>>                 figured out
>>                 that a lot of char[] instances are coming from String +
>>                 operator called
>>                 by sun.awt.X11 code.
>>
>>                 I looked at PlatformLogger source code but found not way
>>                 to disable it
>>                 completely: maybe an empty logger implementation could
>>                 be interesting to
>>                 be used during profiling or normal use (not debugging).
>>                 Apparently JDK8 provides some patchs to avoid String
>>                 creation when the
>>                 logger is disabled (level).
>>
>>                 However, I looked also to the sun.awt code (jdk7u
>>                 repository) to see the
>>                 origin of the string allocations:
>>                 XDecoratedPeer:
>>                      public void handleFocusEvent(XEvent xev) {
>>                 ...
>>                 *        focusLog.finer("Received focus event on shell:
>>                 " + xfe);
>>                 *   }
>>
>>                      public boolean requestWindowFocus(long time,
>>                 boolean timeProvided) {
>>                 ...
>>                 *            focusLog.finest("Real native focused
>>                 window: " +
>>                 realNativeFocusedWindow +
>>                 "\nKFM's focused window: " + focusedWindow);
>>                 *...
>>                 *        focusLog.fine("Requesting focus to " + (this ==
>>                 toFocus ? "this
>>                 window" : toFocus));
>>                 *...
>>                 }
>>
>>                 XBaseWindow:
>>                      public void xSetBounds(int x, int y, int width, int
>>                 height) {
>>                 ...
>>                 *        insLog.fine("Setting bounds on " + this + " to
>>                 (" + x + ", " +
>>                 y + "), " + width + "x" + height);
>>                 *}
>>
>>                 XNetProtocol:
>>                      boolean doStateProtocol() {
>>                 ...
>>                 *        stateLog.finer("__doStateProtocol() returns " +
>>                 res);
>>                 *}
>>
>>                 XSystemTrayPeer:
>>                      XSystemTrayPeer(SystemTray target) {
>>                 ...
>>                 *        log.fine(" check if system tray is available.
>>                 selection owner:
>>                 " + selection_owner);
>>                 *}
>>                      void addTrayIcon(XTrayIconPeer tiPeer) throws
>>                 AWTException {
>>                 ...
>>                 *        log.fine(" send SYSTEM_TRAY_REQUEST_DOCK
>>                 message to owner: " +
>>                 selection_owner);
>>                 *}
>>
>>                 XFramePeer:
>>                      public void handlePropertyNotify(XEvent xev) {
>>                 ...
>>                              stateLog.finer("State is the same: " + 
>> state);
>>                 }
>>
>>                 However I only give here few cases but certainly others
>>                 are still
>>                 present in the source code; maybe findbugs or netbeans
>>                 warnings could
>>                 help you finding all of them.
>>
>>                 I advocate the amount of waste (GC) is not very
>>                 important but String
>>                 conversion are also calling several toString() methods
>>                 that can be
>>                 costly (event, Frame, window ...)
>>
>>                 Finally, I ran few grep commands on the sun.awt.X11 code
>>                 (jdk7u) and you
>>                 can look at them to see all string + operations related
>>                 to log statements.
>>
>>                 PS: I may help fixing the source code but I have no idea
>>                 how to
>>                 collaborate (provide a patch ?)
>>
>>                 Regards,
>>                 Laurent Bourgès
>>
>>
>>
>>



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