CMS parallel initial mark; vm thread sneaking in Thread::try_lock()

Hiroshi Yamauchi yamauchi at google.com
Fri Jun 28 20:56:14 UTC 2013


Great. Thanks!


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Jon Masamitsu <jon.masamitsu at oracle.com>wrote:

> Hiroshi,
>
> I've imported the patches and started some testing.
> We've got it from here.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jon
>
>
> On 6/27/2013 4:06 PM, Hiroshi Yamauchi wrote:
>
>> OK. Here are updated webrevs that have been rebased to the latest
>> hotspot-gc:
>>
>>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~**hiroshi/webrevs/**
>> cmsparinitmark/webrev.03/<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hiroshi/webrevs/cmsparinitmark/webrev.03/>
>>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~**hiroshi/webrevs/edenchunks/**webrev.02/<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hiroshi/webrevs/edenchunks/webrev.02/>
>>
>> These were created from uncommitted changes in my local repositories.
>>
>> With regard to the order to apply these patches, I think they can go in
>> either order, but applying cmsparinitmark first and edenchunks second
>> worked for me.
>>
>> Let me know if there's more to do.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Jon Masamitsu <jon.masamitsu at oracle.com>
>> **wrote:
>>
>>  Hiroshi,
>>>
>>> Could you update your repositories to the latest hotspot-gc and
>>> send me the patches?  I'll import them into a repository and
>>> push it (if I don't see any further comments).
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/25/2013 7:05 PM, Hiroshi Yamauchi wrote:
>>>
>>>  Here's an updated webrev:
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~****hiroshi/webrevs/edenchunks/****
>>>> webrev.01/<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~**hiroshi/webrevs/edenchunks/**webrev.01/>
>>>> <http://cr.openjdk.**java.net/~hiroshi/webrevs/**edenchunks/webrev.01/<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hiroshi/webrevs/edenchunks/webrev.01/>
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if there are more comments.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Jon Masamitsu <
>>>> jon.masamitsu at oracle.com>
>>>> **wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   Yes, remove the assert.
>>>>
>>>>> Jon
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/19/2013 10:39 AM, Hiroshi Yamauchi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Now, if I comment out the assert, it seems to work (though I haven't
>>>>>
>>>>>> tested it very long.) This may be good if in fact sneak won't happen
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> with try_lock()/unlock() only.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I haven't tried this, but another potential approach might be to
>>>>>>>> give
>>>>>>>> up sampling (just return) if it's called by the VM thread at a
>>>>>>>> safepoint, though the VM thread might allocate a large object, and
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> evenness of the sample distribution could suffer to some extent.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   I'd just remove the assert :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As already mentioned multiple times, try_lock() does never actually
>>>>>>> block the thread, so the vm thread cannot actually sneak, as you
>>>>>>> already
>>>>>>> noticed in your question to David, and he confirmed. The guarded code
>>>>>>> can also never block, it's just a few assignments.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    Removing the assert sounds good to me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Jon, what do you think?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>
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