1
0
mirror of https://github.com/golang/go synced 2024-11-14 14:50:23 -07:00
go/src/runtime/mgc.go

1326 lines
42 KiB
Go
Raw Normal View History

// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// TODO(rsc): The code having to do with the heap bitmap needs very serious cleanup.
// It has gotten completely out of control.
// Garbage collector (GC).
//
// The GC runs concurrently with mutator threads, is type accurate (aka precise), allows multiple
// GC thread to run in parallel. It is a concurrent mark and sweep that uses a write barrier. It is
// non-generational and non-compacting. Allocation is done using size segregated per P allocation
// areas to minimize fragmentation while eliminating locks in the common case.
//
// The algorithm decomposes into several steps.
// This is a high level description of the algorithm being used. For an overview of GC a good
// place to start is Richard Jones' gchandbook.org.
//
// The algorithm's intellectual heritage includes Dijkstra's on-the-fly algorithm, see
// Edsger W. Dijkstra, Leslie Lamport, A. J. Martin, C. S. Scholten, and E. F. M. Steffens. 1978.
// On-the-fly garbage collection: an exercise in cooperation. Commun. ACM 21, 11 (November 1978),
// 966-975.
// For journal quality proofs that these steps are complete, correct, and terminate see
// Hudson, R., and Moss, J.E.B. Copying Garbage Collection without stopping the world.
// Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 15(3-5), 2003.
//
// 0. Set phase = GCscan from GCoff.
// 1. Wait for all P's to acknowledge phase change.
// At this point all goroutines have passed through a GC safepoint and
// know we are in the GCscan phase.
// 2. GC scans all goroutine stacks, mark and enqueues all encountered pointers
// (marking avoids most duplicate enqueuing but races may produce benign duplication).
// Preempted goroutines are scanned before P schedules next goroutine.
// 3. Set phase = GCmark.
// 4. Wait for all P's to acknowledge phase change.
// 5. Now write barrier marks and enqueues black, grey, or white to white pointers.
// Malloc still allocates white (non-marked) objects.
// 6. Meanwhile GC transitively walks the heap marking reachable objects.
// 7. When GC finishes marking heap, it preempts P's one-by-one and
// retakes partial wbufs (filled by write barrier or during a stack scan of the goroutine
// currently scheduled on the P).
// 8. Once the GC has exhausted all available marking work it sets phase = marktermination.
// 9. Wait for all P's to acknowledge phase change.
// 10. Malloc now allocates black objects, so number of unmarked reachable objects
// monotonically decreases.
// 11. GC preempts P's one-by-one taking partial wbufs and marks all unmarked yet
// reachable objects.
// 12. When GC completes a full cycle over P's and discovers no new grey
// objects, (which means all reachable objects are marked) set phase = GCsweep.
// 13. Wait for all P's to acknowledge phase change.
// 14. Now malloc allocates white (but sweeps spans before use).
// Write barrier becomes nop.
// 15. GC does background sweeping, see description below.
// 16. When sweeping is complete set phase to GCoff.
// 17. When sufficient allocation has taken place replay the sequence starting at 0 above,
// see discussion of GC rate below.
// Changing phases.
// Phases are changed by setting the gcphase to the next phase and possibly calling ackgcphase.
// All phase action must be benign in the presence of a change.
// Starting with GCoff
// GCoff to GCscan
// GSscan scans stacks and globals greying them and never marks an object black.
// Once all the P's are aware of the new phase they will scan gs on preemption.
// This means that the scanning of preempted gs can't start until all the Ps
// have acknowledged.
// GCscan to GCmark
// GCMark turns on the write barrier which also only greys objects. No scanning
// of objects (making them black) can happen until all the Ps have acknowledged
// the phase change.
// GCmark to GCmarktermination
// The only change here is that we start allocating black so the Ps must acknowledge
// the change before we begin the termination algorithm
// GCmarktermination to GSsweep
// Object currently on the freelist must be marked black for this to work.
// Are things on the free lists black or white? How does the sweep phase work?
// Concurrent sweep.
runtime: introduce heap_live; replace use of heap_alloc in GC Currently there are two main consumers of memstats.heap_alloc: updatememstats (aka ReadMemStats) and shouldtriggergc. updatememstats recomputes heap_alloc from the ground up, so we don't need to keep heap_alloc up to date for it. shouldtriggergc wants to know how many bytes were marked by the previous GC plus how many bytes have been allocated since then, but this *isn't* what heap_alloc tracks. heap_alloc also includes objects that are not marked and haven't yet been swept. Introduce a new memstat called heap_live that actually tracks what shouldtriggergc wants to know and stop keeping heap_alloc up to date. Unlike heap_alloc, heap_live follows a simple sawtooth that drops during each mark termination and increases monotonically between GCs. heap_alloc, on the other hand, has much more complicated behavior: it may drop during sweep termination, slowly decreases from background sweeping between GCs, is roughly unaffected by allocation as long as there are unswept spans (because we sweep and allocate at the same rate), and may go up after background sweeping is done depending on the GC trigger. heap_live simplifies computing next_gc and using it to figure out when to trigger garbage collection. Currently, we guess next_gc at the end of a cycle and update it as we sweep and get a better idea of how much heap was marked. Now, since we're directly tracking how much heap is marked, we can directly compute next_gc. This also corrects bugs that could cause us to trigger GC early. Currently, in any case where sweep termination actually finds spans to sweep, heap_alloc is an overestimation of live heap, so we'll trigger GC too early. heap_live, on the other hand, is unaffected by sweeping. Change-Id: I1f96807b6ed60d4156e8173a8e68745ffc742388 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8389 Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-03-30 16:01:32 -06:00
//
// The sweep phase proceeds concurrently with normal program execution.
// The heap is swept span-by-span both lazily (when a goroutine needs another span)
// and concurrently in a background goroutine (this helps programs that are not CPU bound).
runtime: introduce heap_live; replace use of heap_alloc in GC Currently there are two main consumers of memstats.heap_alloc: updatememstats (aka ReadMemStats) and shouldtriggergc. updatememstats recomputes heap_alloc from the ground up, so we don't need to keep heap_alloc up to date for it. shouldtriggergc wants to know how many bytes were marked by the previous GC plus how many bytes have been allocated since then, but this *isn't* what heap_alloc tracks. heap_alloc also includes objects that are not marked and haven't yet been swept. Introduce a new memstat called heap_live that actually tracks what shouldtriggergc wants to know and stop keeping heap_alloc up to date. Unlike heap_alloc, heap_live follows a simple sawtooth that drops during each mark termination and increases monotonically between GCs. heap_alloc, on the other hand, has much more complicated behavior: it may drop during sweep termination, slowly decreases from background sweeping between GCs, is roughly unaffected by allocation as long as there are unswept spans (because we sweep and allocate at the same rate), and may go up after background sweeping is done depending on the GC trigger. heap_live simplifies computing next_gc and using it to figure out when to trigger garbage collection. Currently, we guess next_gc at the end of a cycle and update it as we sweep and get a better idea of how much heap was marked. Now, since we're directly tracking how much heap is marked, we can directly compute next_gc. This also corrects bugs that could cause us to trigger GC early. Currently, in any case where sweep termination actually finds spans to sweep, heap_alloc is an overestimation of live heap, so we'll trigger GC too early. heap_live, on the other hand, is unaffected by sweeping. Change-Id: I1f96807b6ed60d4156e8173a8e68745ffc742388 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8389 Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-03-30 16:01:32 -06:00
// At the end of STW mark termination all spans are marked as "needs sweeping".
//
// The background sweeper goroutine simply sweeps spans one-by-one.
//
// To avoid requesting more OS memory while there are unswept spans, when a
// goroutine needs another span, it first attempts to reclaim that much memory
// by sweeping. When a goroutine needs to allocate a new small-object span, it
// sweeps small-object spans for the same object size until it frees at least
// one object. When a goroutine needs to allocate large-object span from heap,
// it sweeps spans until it frees at least that many pages into heap. There is
// one case where this may not suffice: if a goroutine sweeps and frees two
// nonadjacent one-page spans to the heap, it will allocate a new two-page
// span, but there can still be other one-page unswept spans which could be
// combined into a two-page span.
//
// It's critical to ensure that no operations proceed on unswept spans (that would corrupt
// mark bits in GC bitmap). During GC all mcaches are flushed into the central cache,
// so they are empty. When a goroutine grabs a new span into mcache, it sweeps it.
// When a goroutine explicitly frees an object or sets a finalizer, it ensures that
// the span is swept (either by sweeping it, or by waiting for the concurrent sweep to finish).
// The finalizer goroutine is kicked off only when all spans are swept.
// When the next GC starts, it sweeps all not-yet-swept spans (if any).
// GC rate.
// Next GC is after we've allocated an extra amount of memory proportional to
// the amount already in use. The proportion is controlled by GOGC environment variable
// (100 by default). If GOGC=100 and we're using 4M, we'll GC again when we get to 8M
// (this mark is tracked in next_gc variable). This keeps the GC cost in linear
// proportion to the allocation cost. Adjusting GOGC just changes the linear constant
// (and also the amount of extra memory used).
package runtime
import "unsafe"
const (
_DebugGC = 0
_ConcurrentSweep = true
_FinBlockSize = 4 * 1024
_RootData = 0
_RootBss = 1
_RootFinalizers = 2
_RootSpans = 3
_RootFlushCaches = 4
_RootCount = 5
)
// heapminimum is the minimum number of bytes in the heap.
// This cleans up the corner case of where we have a very small live set but a lot
// of allocations and collecting every GOGC * live set is expensive.
var heapminimum = uint64(4 << 20)
// Initialized from $GOGC. GOGC=off means no GC.
var gcpercent int32
func gcinit() {
if unsafe.Sizeof(workbuf{}) != _WorkbufSize {
throw("size of Workbuf is suboptimal")
}
runtime: switch to gcWork abstraction This converts the garbage collector from directly manipulating work buffers to using the new gcWork abstraction. The previous management of work buffers was rather ad hoc. As a result, switching to the gcWork abstraction changes many details of work buffer management. If greyobject fills a work buffer, it can now pull from work.partial in addition to work.empty. Previously, gcDrain started with a partial or empty work buffer and fetched an empty work buffer if it filled its current buffer (in greyobject). Now, gcDrain starts with a full work buffer and fetches an partial or empty work buffer if it fills its current buffer (in greyobject). The original behavior was bad because gcDrain would immediately drop the empty work buffer returned by greyobject and fetch a full work buffer, which greyobject was likely to immediately overflow, fetching another empty work buffer, etc. The new behavior isn't great at the start because greyobject is likely to immediately overflow the full buffer, but the steady-state behavior should be more stable. Both before and after this change, gcDrain fetches a full work buffer if it drains its current buffer. Basically all of these choices are bad; the right answer is to use a dual work buffer scheme. Previously, shade always fetched a work buffer (though usually from m.currentwbuf), even if the object was already marked. Now it only fetches a work buffer if it actually greys an object. Change-Id: I8b880ed660eb63135236fa5d5678f0c1c041881f Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5232 Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-02-17 08:53:31 -07:00
work.markfor = parforalloc(_MaxGcproc)
gcpercent = readgogc()
for datap := &firstmoduledata; datap != nil; datap = datap.next {
datap.gcdatamask = unrollglobgcprog((*byte)(unsafe.Pointer(datap.gcdata)), datap.edata-datap.data)
datap.gcbssmask = unrollglobgcprog((*byte)(unsafe.Pointer(datap.gcbss)), datap.ebss-datap.bss)
}
memstats.next_gc = heapminimum
}
// gcenable is called after the bulk of the runtime initialization,
// just before we're about to start letting user code run.
// It kicks off the background sweeper goroutine and enables GC.
func gcenable() {
c := make(chan int, 1)
go bgsweep(c)
<-c
memstats.enablegc = true // now that runtime is initialized, GC is okay
}
func setGCPercent(in int32) (out int32) {
lock(&mheap_.lock)
out = gcpercent
if in < 0 {
in = -1
}
gcpercent = in
unlock(&mheap_.lock)
return out
}
// gcController implements the GC pacing controller that determines
// when to trigger concurrent garbage collection and how much marking
// work to do in mutator assists and background marking.
//
// It uses a feedback control algorithm to adjust the memstats.next_gc
// trigger based on the heap growth and GC CPU utilization each cycle.
// This algorithm optimizes for heap growth to match GOGC and for CPU
// utilization between assist and background marking to be 25% of
// GOMAXPROCS. The high-level design of this algorithm is documented
// at http://golang.org/s/go15gcpacing.
var gcController = gcControllerState{
// Initial work ratio guess.
//
// TODO(austin): This is based on the work ratio of the
// compiler on ./all.bash. Run a wider variety of programs and
// see what their work ratios are.
workRatioAvg: 0.5 / float64(ptrSize),
// Initial trigger ratio guess.
triggerRatio: 7 / 8.0,
}
type gcControllerState struct {
// scanWork is the total scan work performed this cycle. This
// is updated atomically during the cycle. Updates may be
// batched arbitrarily, since the value is only read at the
// end of the cycle.
scanWork int64
// bgScanCredit is the scan work credit accumulated by the
// concurrent background scan. This credit is accumulated by
// the background scan and stolen by mutator assists. This is
// updated atomically. Updates occur in bounded batches, since
// it is both written and read throughout the cycle.
bgScanCredit int64
// assistTime is the nanoseconds spent in mutator assists
// during this cycle. This is updated atomically. Updates
// occur in bounded batches, since it is both written and read
// throughout the cycle.
assistTime int64
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
// bgMarkTime is the nanoseconds spent in background marking
// during this cycle. This is updated atomically throughout
// the cycle.
bgMarkTime int64
// idleMarkTime is the nanoseconds spent in idle marking
// during this cycle. This is udpated atomically throughout
// the cycle.
idleMarkTime int64
// bgMarkStartTime is the absolute start time in nanoseconds
// that the background mark phase started.
bgMarkStartTime int64
// workRatioAvg is a moving average of the scan work ratio
// (scan work per byte marked).
workRatioAvg float64
// assistRatio is the ratio of allocated bytes to scan work
// that should be performed by mutator assists. This is
// computed at the beginning of each cycle.
assistRatio float64
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
// triggerRatio is the heap growth ratio at which the garbage
// collection cycle should start. E.g., if this is 0.6, then
// GC should start when the live heap has reached 1.6 times
// the heap size marked by the previous cycle. This is updated
// at the end of of each cycle.
triggerRatio float64
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
_ [_CacheLineSize]byte
// bgMarkCount is the number of Ps currently running
// background marking. This is updated at every scheduling
// point (hence it gets it own cache line).
bgMarkCount uint32
_ [_CacheLineSize]byte
}
// startCycle resets the GC controller's state and computes estimates
// for a new GC cycle. The caller must hold worldsema.
func (c *gcControllerState) startCycle() {
c.scanWork = 0
c.bgScanCredit = 0
c.assistTime = 0
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
c.bgMarkTime = 0
c.idleMarkTime = 0
// If this is the first GC cycle or we're operating on a very
// small heap, fake heap_marked so it looks like next_gc is
// the appropriate growth from heap_marked, even though the
// real heap_marked may not have a meaningful value (on the
// first cycle) or may be much smaller (resulting in a large
// error response).
if memstats.next_gc <= heapminimum {
memstats.heap_marked = uint64(float64(memstats.next_gc) / (1 + c.triggerRatio))
}
// Compute the expected work based on last cycle's marked bytes.
scanWorkExpected := uint64(float64(memstats.heap_marked) * c.workRatioAvg)
// Compute the mutator assist ratio so by the time the mutator
// allocates the remaining heap bytes up to next_gc, it will
// have done (or stolen) the estimated amount of scan work.
heapGoal := memstats.heap_marked + memstats.heap_marked*uint64(gcpercent)/100
heapDistance := int64(heapGoal) - int64(memstats.heap_live)
if heapDistance <= 1024*1024 {
// heapDistance can be negative if GC start is delayed
// or if the allocation that pushed heap_live over
// next_gc is large or if the trigger is really close
// to GOGC. We don't want to set the assist negative
// (or divide by zero, or set it really high), so
// enforce a minimum on the distance.
heapDistance = 1024 * 1024
}
c.assistRatio = float64(scanWorkExpected) / float64(heapDistance)
// Clear per-P state
for _, p := range &allp {
if p == nil {
break
}
p.gcAssistTime = 0
}
return
}
// endCycle updates the GC controller state at the end of the
// concurrent part of the GC cycle.
func (c *gcControllerState) endCycle() {
// Proportional response gain for the trigger controller. Must
// be in [0, 1]. Lower values smooth out transient effects but
// take longer to respond to phase changes. Higher values
// react to phase changes quickly, but are more affected by
// transient changes. Values near 1 may be unstable.
const triggerGain = 0.5
// EWMA weight given to this cycle's scan work ratio.
const workRatioWeight = 0.75
// Compute next cycle trigger ratio. First, this computes the
// "error" for this cycle; that is, how far off the trigger
// was from what it should have been, accounting for both heap
// growth and GC CPU utilization. We computing the actual heap
// growth during this cycle and scale that by how far off from
// the goal CPU utilization we were (to estimate the heap
// growth if we had the desired CPU utilization). The
// difference between this estimate and the GOGC-based goal
// heap growth is the error.
goalGrowthRatio := float64(gcpercent) / 100
actualGrowthRatio := float64(memstats.heap_live)/float64(memstats.heap_marked) - 1
duration := nanotime() - c.bgMarkStartTime
utilization := float64(c.assistTime+c.bgMarkTime) / float64(duration*int64(gomaxprocs))
triggerError := goalGrowthRatio - c.triggerRatio - utilization/gcGoalUtilization*(actualGrowthRatio-c.triggerRatio)
// Finally, we adjust the trigger for next time by this error,
// damped by the proportional gain.
c.triggerRatio += triggerGain * triggerError
if c.triggerRatio < 0 {
// This can happen if the mutator is allocating very
// quickly or the GC is scanning very slowly.
c.triggerRatio = 0
} else if c.triggerRatio > goalGrowthRatio*0.95 {
// Ensure there's always a little margin so that the
// mutator assist ratio isn't infinity.
c.triggerRatio = goalGrowthRatio * 0.95
}
// Compute the scan work ratio for this cycle.
workRatio := float64(c.scanWork) / float64(work.bytesMarked)
// Update EWMA of recent scan work ratios.
c.workRatioAvg = workRatioWeight*workRatio + (1-workRatioWeight)*c.workRatioAvg
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
// Check that there aren't any background workers left.
if atomicload(&c.bgMarkCount) != 0 {
throw("endCycle: bgMarkCount != 0")
}
}
// findRunnable returns the background mark worker for _p_ if it
// should be run. This must only be called when gcphase == _GCmark.
func (c *gcControllerState) findRunnable(_p_ *p) *g {
if gcphase != _GCmark {
throw("gcControllerState.findRunnable: not in mark phase")
}
if _p_.gcBgMarkWorker == nil {
throw("gcControllerState.findRunnable: no background mark worker")
}
if work.bgMarkDone != 0 {
// Background mark is done. Don't schedule background
// mark worker any more. (This is not just an
// optimization. Without this we can spin scheduling
// the background worker and having it return
// immediately with no work to do.)
return nil
}
if work.full == 0 && work.partial == 0 {
// No work to be done right now. This can happen at
// the end of the mark phase when there are still
// assists tapering off. Don't bother running
// background mark because it'll just return and
// bgMarkCount might hover above zero.
return nil
}
// Get the count of Ps currently running background mark and
// take a slot for this P (which we may undo below).
//
// TODO(austin): Fast path for case where we don't run background GC?
count := xadd(&c.bgMarkCount, +1) - 1
runBg := false
if c.bgMarkTime == 0 {
// At the beginning of a cycle, the common case logic
// below is right on the edge depending on whether
// assists have slipped in. Give background GC a
// little kick in the beginning.
runBg = count == 0 || count <= uint32(gomaxprocs/int32(1/gcGoalUtilization))
} else {
// If this P were to run background GC in addition to
// the Ps that currently are, then, as of the next
// scheduling tick, would the assist+background
// utilization be <= the goal utilization?
//
// TODO(austin): This assumes all Ps currently running
// background GC have a whole schedule quantum left.
// Can we do something with real time to alleviate
// that?
timeUsed := c.assistTime + c.bgMarkTime
timeUsedIfRun := timeUsed + int64(count+1)*forcePreemptNS
timeLimit := (nanotime() - gcController.bgMarkStartTime + forcePreemptNS) * int64(gomaxprocs) / int64(1/gcGoalUtilization)
runBg = timeUsedIfRun <= timeLimit
}
if runBg {
_p_.gcBgMarkIdle = false
gp := _p_.gcBgMarkWorker
casgstatus(gp, _Gwaiting, _Grunnable)
if trace.enabled {
traceGoUnpark(gp, 0)
}
return gp
}
// Return unused ticket
xadd(&c.bgMarkCount, -1)
return nil
}
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
// gcGoalUtilization is the goal CPU utilization for mutator assists
// plus background marking as a fraction of GOMAXPROCS.
//
// This must be 1/N for some integer N. This limitation is not
// fundamental, but this lets us use integer math.
const gcGoalUtilization = 0.25
// gcBgCreditSlack is the amount of scan work credit background
// scanning can accumulate locally before updating
// gcController.bgScanCredit. Lower values give mutator assists more
// accurate accounting of background scanning. Higher values reduce
// memory contention.
const gcBgCreditSlack = 2000
// gcAssistTimeSlack is the nanoseconds of mutator assist time that
// can accumulate on a P before updating gcController.assistTime.
const gcAssistTimeSlack = 5000
// Determine whether to initiate a GC.
// If the GC is already working no need to trigger another one.
// This should establish a feedback loop where if the GC does not
// have sufficient time to complete then more memory will be
// requested from the OS increasing heap size thus allow future
// GCs more time to complete.
runtime: introduce heap_live; replace use of heap_alloc in GC Currently there are two main consumers of memstats.heap_alloc: updatememstats (aka ReadMemStats) and shouldtriggergc. updatememstats recomputes heap_alloc from the ground up, so we don't need to keep heap_alloc up to date for it. shouldtriggergc wants to know how many bytes were marked by the previous GC plus how many bytes have been allocated since then, but this *isn't* what heap_alloc tracks. heap_alloc also includes objects that are not marked and haven't yet been swept. Introduce a new memstat called heap_live that actually tracks what shouldtriggergc wants to know and stop keeping heap_alloc up to date. Unlike heap_alloc, heap_live follows a simple sawtooth that drops during each mark termination and increases monotonically between GCs. heap_alloc, on the other hand, has much more complicated behavior: it may drop during sweep termination, slowly decreases from background sweeping between GCs, is roughly unaffected by allocation as long as there are unswept spans (because we sweep and allocate at the same rate), and may go up after background sweeping is done depending on the GC trigger. heap_live simplifies computing next_gc and using it to figure out when to trigger garbage collection. Currently, we guess next_gc at the end of a cycle and update it as we sweep and get a better idea of how much heap was marked. Now, since we're directly tracking how much heap is marked, we can directly compute next_gc. This also corrects bugs that could cause us to trigger GC early. Currently, in any case where sweep termination actually finds spans to sweep, heap_alloc is an overestimation of live heap, so we'll trigger GC too early. heap_live, on the other hand, is unaffected by sweeping. Change-Id: I1f96807b6ed60d4156e8173a8e68745ffc742388 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8389 Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-03-30 16:01:32 -06:00
// memstat.heap_live read has a benign race.
// A false negative simple does not start a GC, a false positive
// will start a GC needlessly. Neither have correctness issues.
func shouldtriggergc() bool {
return memstats.heap_live >= memstats.next_gc && atomicloaduint(&bggc.working) == 0
}
var work struct {
full uint64 // lock-free list of full blocks workbuf
empty uint64 // lock-free list of empty blocks workbuf
partial uint64 // lock-free list of partially filled blocks workbuf
pad0 [_CacheLineSize]uint8 // prevents false-sharing between full/empty and nproc/nwait
nproc uint32
tstart int64
nwait uint32
ndone uint32
alldone note
markfor *parfor
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
bgMarkReady note // signal background mark worker has started
bgMarkDone uint32 // cas to 1 when at a background mark completion point
bgMarkNote note // signal background mark completion
// Copy of mheap.allspans for marker or sweeper.
spans []*mspan
// totaltime is the CPU nanoseconds spent in GC since the
// program started if debug.gctrace > 0.
totaltime int64
// bytesMarked is the number of bytes marked this cycle. This
// includes bytes blackened in scanned objects, noscan objects
// that go straight to black, and permagrey objects scanned by
// markroot during the concurrent scan phase. This is updated
// atomically during the cycle. Updates may be batched
// arbitrarily, since the value is only read at the end of the
// cycle.
//
// Because of benign races during marking, this number may not
// be the exact number of marked bytes, but it should be very
// close.
bytesMarked uint64
}
// GC runs a garbage collection.
func GC() {
startGC(gcForceBlockMode)
}
const (
gcBackgroundMode = iota // concurrent GC
gcForceMode // stop-the-world GC now
gcForceBlockMode // stop-the-world GC now and wait for sweep
)
func startGC(mode int) {
// The gc is turned off (via enablegc) until the bootstrap has completed.
// Also, malloc gets called in the guts of a number of libraries that might be
// holding locks. To avoid deadlocks during stoptheworld, don't bother
// trying to run gc while holding a lock. The next mallocgc without a lock
// will do the gc instead.
mp := acquirem()
if gp := getg(); gp == mp.g0 || mp.locks > 1 || !memstats.enablegc || panicking != 0 || gcpercent < 0 {
releasem(mp)
return
}
releasem(mp)
mp = nil
if mode != gcBackgroundMode {
// special synchronous cases
gc(mode)
return
}
// trigger concurrent GC
lock(&bggc.lock)
if !bggc.started {
bggc.working = 1
bggc.started = true
// This puts the G on the end of the current run
// queue, so it may take a while to actually start.
// This is only a problem for the first GC cycle.
go backgroundgc()
} else if bggc.working == 0 {
bggc.working = 1
if getg().m.lockedg != nil {
// We can't directly switch to GC on a locked
// M, so put it on the run queue and someone
// will get to it.
ready(bggc.g, 0)
} else {
unlock(&bggc.lock)
readyExecute(bggc.g, 0)
return
}
}
unlock(&bggc.lock)
}
// State of the background concurrent GC goroutine.
var bggc struct {
lock mutex
g *g
working uint
started bool
}
// backgroundgc is running in a goroutine and does the concurrent GC work.
// bggc holds the state of the backgroundgc.
func backgroundgc() {
bggc.g = getg()
for {
gc(gcBackgroundMode)
lock(&bggc.lock)
bggc.working = 0
goparkunlock(&bggc.lock, "Concurrent GC wait", traceEvGoBlock, 1)
}
}
func gc(mode int) {
// debug.gctrace variables
var stwprocs, maxprocs int32
var tSweepTerm, tScan, tInstallWB, tMark, tMarkTerm int64
var heap0, heap1, heap2 uint64
// Ok, we're doing it! Stop everybody else
semacquire(&worldsema, false)
// Pick up the remaining unswept/not being swept spans concurrently
//
runtime: finish sweeping before concurrent GC starts Currently, the concurrent sweep follows a 1:1 rule: when allocation needs a span, it sweeps a span (likewise, when a large allocation needs N pages, it sweeps until it frees N pages). This rule worked well for the STW collector (especially when GOGC==100) because it did no more sweeping than necessary to keep the heap from growing, would generally finish sweeping just before GC, and ensured good temporal locality between sweeping a page and allocating from it. It doesn't work well with concurrent GC. Since concurrent GC requires starting GC earlier (sometimes much earlier), the sweep often won't be done when GC starts. Unfortunately, the first thing GC has to do is finish the sweep. In the mean time, the mutator can continue allocating, pushing the heap size even closer to the goal size. This worked okay with the 7/8ths trigger, but it gets into a vicious cycle with the GC trigger controller: if the mutator is allocating quickly and driving the trigger lower, more and more sweep work will be left to GC; this both causes GC to take longer (allowing the mutator to allocate more during GC) and delays the start of the concurrent mark phase, which throws off the GC controller's statistics and generally causes it to push the trigger even lower. As an example of a particularly bad case, the garbage benchmark with GOMAXPROCS=4 and -benchmem 512 (MB) spends the first 0.4-0.8 seconds of each GC cycle sweeping, during which the heap grows by between 109MB and 252MB. To fix this, this change replaces the 1:1 sweep rule with a proportional sweep rule. At the end of GC, GC knows exactly how much heap allocation will occur before the next concurrent GC as well as how many span pages must be swept. This change computes this "sweep ratio" and when the mallocgc asks for a span, the mcentral sweeps enough spans to bring the swept span count into ratio with the allocated byte count. On the benchmark from above, this entirely eliminates sweeping at the beginning of GC, which reduces the time between startGC readying the GC goroutine and GC stopping the world for sweep termination to ~100µs during which the heap grows at most 134KB. Change-Id: I35422d6bba0c2310d48bb1f8f30a72d29e98c1af Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8921 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-04-13 21:34:57 -06:00
// This shouldn't happen if we're being invoked in background
// mode since proportional sweep should have just finished
// sweeping everything, but rounding errors, etc, may leave a
// few spans unswept. In forced mode, this is necessary since
// GC can be forced at any point in the sweeping cycle.
for gosweepone() != ^uintptr(0) {
sweep.nbgsweep++
}
gctimer.count++
if mode == gcBackgroundMode {
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
gcBgMarkStartWorkers()
gctimer.cycle.sweepterm = nanotime()
}
if debug.gctrace > 0 {
stwprocs, maxprocs = gcprocs(), gomaxprocs
tSweepTerm = nanotime()
if mode == gcBackgroundMode {
// We started GC when heap_live == next_gc,
// but the mutator may have allocated between
// then and now. Report heap when GC started.
heap0 = memstats.next_gc
} else {
heap0 = memstats.heap_live
}
}
if trace.enabled {
traceGCStart()
}
systemstack(stoptheworld)
systemstack(finishsweep_m) // finish sweep before we start concurrent scan.
// clearpools before we start the GC. If we wait they memory will not be
// reclaimed until the next GC cycle.
clearpools()
work.bytesMarked = 0
if mode == gcBackgroundMode { // Do as much work concurrently as possible
gcController.startCycle()
systemstack(func() {
gcphase = _GCscan
// Concurrent scan.
starttheworld()
gctimer.cycle.scan = nanotime()
if debug.gctrace > 0 {
tScan = nanotime()
}
gcscan_m()
gctimer.cycle.installmarkwb = nanotime()
// Enter mark phase, enabling write barriers
// and mutator assists.
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
//
// TODO: Elimate this STW. This requires
// enabling write barriers in all mutators
// before enabling any mutator assists or
// background marking.
if debug.gctrace > 0 {
tInstallWB = nanotime()
}
stoptheworld()
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
gcBgMarkPrepare()
gcphase = _GCmark
// Concurrent mark.
starttheworld()
})
gctimer.cycle.mark = nanotime()
if debug.gctrace > 0 {
tMark = nanotime()
}
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
notetsleepg(&work.bgMarkNote, -1)
noteclear(&work.bgMarkNote)
// Begin mark termination.
gctimer.cycle.markterm = nanotime()
if debug.gctrace > 0 {
tMarkTerm = nanotime()
}
systemstack(stoptheworld)
// The gcphase is _GCmark, it will transition to _GCmarktermination
// below. The important thing is that the wb remains active until
// all marking is complete. This includes writes made by the GC.
gcController.endCycle()
} else {
// For non-concurrent GC (mode != gcBackgroundMode)
// The g stacks have not been scanned so clear g state
// such that mark termination scans all stacks.
gcResetGState()
if debug.gctrace > 0 {
t := nanotime()
tScan, tInstallWB, tMark, tMarkTerm = t, t, t, t
}
}
// World is stopped.
// Start marktermination which includes enabling the write barrier.
gcphase = _GCmarktermination
if debug.gctrace > 0 {
runtime: introduce heap_live; replace use of heap_alloc in GC Currently there are two main consumers of memstats.heap_alloc: updatememstats (aka ReadMemStats) and shouldtriggergc. updatememstats recomputes heap_alloc from the ground up, so we don't need to keep heap_alloc up to date for it. shouldtriggergc wants to know how many bytes were marked by the previous GC plus how many bytes have been allocated since then, but this *isn't* what heap_alloc tracks. heap_alloc also includes objects that are not marked and haven't yet been swept. Introduce a new memstat called heap_live that actually tracks what shouldtriggergc wants to know and stop keeping heap_alloc up to date. Unlike heap_alloc, heap_live follows a simple sawtooth that drops during each mark termination and increases monotonically between GCs. heap_alloc, on the other hand, has much more complicated behavior: it may drop during sweep termination, slowly decreases from background sweeping between GCs, is roughly unaffected by allocation as long as there are unswept spans (because we sweep and allocate at the same rate), and may go up after background sweeping is done depending on the GC trigger. heap_live simplifies computing next_gc and using it to figure out when to trigger garbage collection. Currently, we guess next_gc at the end of a cycle and update it as we sweep and get a better idea of how much heap was marked. Now, since we're directly tracking how much heap is marked, we can directly compute next_gc. This also corrects bugs that could cause us to trigger GC early. Currently, in any case where sweep termination actually finds spans to sweep, heap_alloc is an overestimation of live heap, so we'll trigger GC too early. heap_live, on the other hand, is unaffected by sweeping. Change-Id: I1f96807b6ed60d4156e8173a8e68745ffc742388 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8389 Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-03-30 16:01:32 -06:00
heap1 = memstats.heap_live
}
startTime := nanotime()
mp := acquirem()
mp.preemptoff = "gcing"
_g_ := getg()
_g_.m.traceback = 2
gp := _g_.m.curg
casgstatus(gp, _Grunning, _Gwaiting)
gp.waitreason = "garbage collection"
// Run gc on the g0 stack. We do this so that the g stack
// we're currently running on will no longer change. Cuts
// the root set down a bit (g0 stacks are not scanned, and
// we don't need to scan gc's internal state). We also
// need to switch to g0 so we can shrink the stack.
systemstack(func() {
gcMark(startTime)
if debug.gctrace > 0 {
heap2 = work.bytesMarked
}
if debug.gccheckmark > 0 {
// Run a full stop-the-world mark using checkmark bits,
// to check that we didn't forget to mark anything during
// the concurrent mark process.
initCheckmarks()
gcMark(startTime)
clearCheckmarks()
}
// marking is complete so we can turn the write barrier off
gcphase = _GCoff
gcSweep(mode)
if debug.gctrace > 1 {
startTime = nanotime()
// The g stacks have been scanned so
// they have gcscanvalid==true and gcworkdone==true.
// Reset these so that all stacks will be rescanned.
gcResetGState()
finishsweep_m()
// Still in STW but gcphase is _GCoff, reset to _GCmarktermination
// At this point all objects will be found during the gcMark which
// does a complete STW mark and object scan.
gcphase = _GCmarktermination
gcMark(startTime)
gcphase = _GCoff // marking is done, turn off wb.
gcSweep(mode)
}
})
_g_.m.traceback = 0
casgstatus(gp, _Gwaiting, _Grunning)
if trace.enabled {
traceGCDone()
}
// all done
mp.preemptoff = ""
if mode == gcBackgroundMode {
gctimer.cycle.sweep = nanotime()
}
semrelease(&worldsema)
if mode == gcBackgroundMode {
if gctimer.verbose > 1 {
GCprinttimes()
} else if gctimer.verbose > 0 {
calctimes() // ignore result
}
}
if gcphase != _GCoff {
throw("gc done but gcphase != _GCoff")
}
systemstack(starttheworld)
releasem(mp)
mp = nil
memstats.numgc++
if debug.gctrace > 0 {
tEnd := nanotime()
// Update work.totaltime
sweepTermCpu := int64(stwprocs) * (tScan - tSweepTerm)
scanCpu := tInstallWB - tScan
installWBCpu := int64(stwprocs) * (tMark - tInstallWB)
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
// We report idle marking time below, but omit it from
// the overall utilization here since it's "free".
markCpu := gcController.assistTime + gcController.bgMarkTime
markTermCpu := int64(stwprocs) * (tEnd - tMarkTerm)
cycleCpu := sweepTermCpu + scanCpu + installWBCpu + markCpu + markTermCpu
work.totaltime += cycleCpu
// Compute overall utilization
totalCpu := sched.totaltime + (tEnd-sched.procresizetime)*int64(gomaxprocs)
util := work.totaltime * 100 / totalCpu
var sbuf [24]byte
printlock()
print("gc #", memstats.numgc,
" @", string(itoaDiv(sbuf[:], uint64(tEnd-runtimeInitTime)/1e6, 3)), "s ",
util, "%: ",
(tScan-tSweepTerm)/1e6,
"+", (tInstallWB-tScan)/1e6,
"+", (tMark-tInstallWB)/1e6,
"+", (tMarkTerm-tMark)/1e6,
"+", (tEnd-tMarkTerm)/1e6, " ms clock, ",
sweepTermCpu/1e6,
"+", scanCpu/1e6,
"+", installWBCpu/1e6,
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
"+", gcController.assistTime/1e6,
"/", gcController.bgMarkTime/1e6,
"/", gcController.idleMarkTime/1e6,
"+", markTermCpu/1e6, " ms cpu, ",
heap0>>20, "->", heap1>>20, "->", heap2>>20, " MB, ",
maxprocs, " P")
if mode != gcBackgroundMode {
print(" (forced)")
}
print("\n")
printunlock()
}
sweep.nbgsweep = 0
sweep.npausesweep = 0
// now that gc is done, kick off finalizer thread if needed
if !concurrentSweep {
// give the queued finalizers, if any, a chance to run
Gosched()
}
}
runtime: multi-threaded, utilization-scheduled background mark Currently, the concurrent mark phase is performed by the main GC goroutine. Prior to the previous commit enabling preemption, this caused marking to always consume 1/GOMAXPROCS of the available CPU time. If GOMAXPROCS=1, this meant background GC would consume 100% of the CPU (effectively a STW). If GOMAXPROCS>4, background GC would use less than the goal of 25%. If GOMAXPROCS=4, background GC would use the goal 25%, but if the mutator wasn't using the remaining 75%, background marking wouldn't take advantage of the idle time. Enabling preemption in the previous commit made GC miss CPU targets in completely different ways, but set us up to bring everything back in line. This change replaces the fixed GC goroutine with per-P background mark goroutines. Once started, these goroutines don't go in the standard run queues; instead, they are scheduled specially such that the time spent in mutator assists and the background mark goroutines totals 25% of the CPU time available to the program. Furthermore, this lets background marking take advantage of idle Ps, which significantly boosts GC performance for applications that under-utilize the CPU. This requires also changing how time is reported for gctrace, so this change splits the concurrent mark CPU time into assist/background/idle scanning. This also requires increasing the size of the StackRecord slice used in a GoroutineProfile test. Change-Id: I0936ff907d2cee6cb687a208f2df47e8988e3157 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8850 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-03-23 19:07:33 -06:00
// gcBgMarkStartWorkers prepares background mark worker goroutines.
// These goroutines will not run until the mark phase, but they must
// be started while the work is not stopped and from a regular G
// stack. The caller must hold worldsema.
func gcBgMarkStartWorkers() {
// Background marking is performed by per-P G's. Ensure that
// each P has a background GC G.
for _, p := range &allp {
if p == nil || p.status == _Pdead {
break
}
if p.gcBgMarkWorker == nil {
go gcBgMarkWorker(p)
notetsleepg(&work.bgMarkReady, -1)
noteclear(&work.bgMarkReady)
}
}
}
// gcBgMarkPrepare sets up state for background marking.
// Mutator assists must not yet be enabled.
func gcBgMarkPrepare() {
// Background marking will stop when the work queues are empty
// and there are no more workers (note that, since this is
// concurrent, this may be a transient state, but mark
// termination will clean it up). Between background workers
// and assists, we don't really know how many workers there
// will be, so we pretend to have an arbitrarily large number
// of workers, almost all of which are "waiting". While a
// worker is working it decrements nwait. If nproc == nwait,
// there are no workers.
work.nproc = ^uint32(0)
work.nwait = ^uint32(0)
// Background GC and assists race to set this to 1 on
// completion so that this only gets one "done" signal.
work.bgMarkDone = 0
gcController.bgMarkStartTime = nanotime()
}
func gcBgMarkWorker(p *p) {
// Register this G as the background mark worker for p.
if p.gcBgMarkWorker != nil {
throw("P already has a background mark worker")
}
gp := getg()
mp := acquirem()
p.gcBgMarkWorker = gp
// After this point, the background mark worker is scheduled
// cooperatively by gcController.findRunnable. Hence, it must
// never be preempted, as this would put it into _Grunnable
// and put it on a run queue. Instead, when the preempt flag
// is set, this puts itself into _Gwaiting to be woken up by
// gcController.findRunnable at the appropriate time.
notewakeup(&work.bgMarkReady)
var gcw gcWork
for {
// Go to sleep until woken by gcContoller.findRunnable.
// We can't releasem yet since even the call to gopark
// may be preempted.
gopark(func(g *g, mp unsafe.Pointer) bool {
releasem((*m)(mp))
return true
}, unsafe.Pointer(mp), "background mark (idle)", traceEvGoBlock, 0)
// Loop until the P dies and disassociates this
// worker. (The P may later be reused, in which case
// it will get a new worker.)
if p.gcBgMarkWorker != gp {
break
}
// Disable preemption so we can use the gcw. If the
// scheduler wants to preempt us, we'll stop draining,
// dispose the gcw, and then preempt.
mp = acquirem()
startTime := nanotime()
xadd(&work.nwait, -1)
gcDrainUntilPreempt(&gcw, gcBgCreditSlack)
gcw.dispose()
// If this is the last worker and we ran out of work,
// signal a completion point.
if xadd(&work.nwait, +1) == work.nproc && work.full == 0 && work.partial == 0 {
// This has reached a background completion
// point. Is it the first this cycle?
if cas(&work.bgMarkDone, 0, 1) {
notewakeup(&work.bgMarkNote)
}
}
duration := nanotime() - startTime
if p.gcBgMarkIdle {
xaddint64(&gcController.idleMarkTime, duration)
} else {
xaddint64(&gcController.bgMarkTime, duration)
xadd(&gcController.bgMarkCount, -1)
}
}
}
// gcMark runs the mark (or, for concurrent GC, mark termination)
// STW is in effect at this point.
//TODO go:nowritebarrier
func gcMark(start_time int64) {
if debug.allocfreetrace > 0 {
tracegc()
}
if gcphase != _GCmarktermination {
throw("in gcMark expecting to see gcphase as _GCmarktermination")
}
[dev.cc] runtime: delete scalararg, ptrarg; rename onM to systemstack Scalararg and ptrarg are not "signal safe". Go code filling them out can be interrupted by a signal, and then the signal handler runs, and if it also ends up in Go code that uses scalararg or ptrarg, now the old values have been smashed. For the pieces of code that do need to run in a signal handler, we introduced onM_signalok, which is really just onM except that the _signalok is meant to convey that the caller asserts that scalarg and ptrarg will be restored to their old values after the call (instead of the usual behavior, zeroing them). Scalararg and ptrarg are also untyped and therefore error-prone. Go code can always pass a closure instead of using scalararg and ptrarg; they were only really necessary for C code. And there's no more C code. For all these reasons, delete scalararg and ptrarg, converting the few remaining references to use closures. Once those are gone, there is no need for a distinction between onM and onM_signalok, so replace both with a single function equivalent to the current onM_signalok (that is, it can be called on any of the curg, g0, and gsignal stacks). The name onM and the phrase 'm stack' are misnomers, because on most system an M has two system stacks: the main thread stack and the signal handling stack. Correct the misnomer by naming the replacement function systemstack. Fix a few references to "M stack" in code. The main motivation for this change is to eliminate scalararg/ptrarg. Rick and I have already seen them cause problems because the calling sequence m.ptrarg[0] = p is a heap pointer assignment, so it gets a write barrier. The write barrier also uses onM, so it has all the same problems as if it were being invoked by a signal handler. We worked around this by saving and restoring the old values and by calling onM_signalok, but there's no point in keeping this nice home for bugs around any longer. This CL also changes funcline to return the file name as a result instead of filling in a passed-in *string. (The *string signature is left over from when the code was written in and called from C.) That's arguably an unrelated change, except that once I had done the ptrarg/scalararg/onM cleanup I started getting false positives about the *string argument escaping (not allowed in package runtime). The compiler is wrong, but the easiest fix is to write the code like Go code instead of like C code. I am a bit worried that the compiler is wrong because of some use of uninitialized memory in the escape analysis. If that's the reason, it will go away when we convert the compiler to Go. (And if not, we'll debug it the next time.) LGTM=khr R=r, khr CC=austin, golang-codereviews, iant, rlh https://golang.org/cl/174950043
2014-11-12 12:54:31 -07:00
t0 := start_time
work.tstart = start_time
gcCopySpans() // TODO(rlh): should this be hoisted and done only once? Right now it is done for normal marking and also for checkmarking.
work.nwait = 0
work.ndone = 0
work.nproc = uint32(gcprocs())
if trace.enabled {
traceGCScanStart()
}
parforsetup(work.markfor, work.nproc, uint32(_RootCount+allglen), false, markroot)
if work.nproc > 1 {
noteclear(&work.alldone)
helpgc(int32(work.nproc))
}
harvestwbufs() // move local workbufs onto global queues where the GC can find them
gchelperstart()
parfordo(work.markfor)
runtime: switch to gcWork abstraction This converts the garbage collector from directly manipulating work buffers to using the new gcWork abstraction. The previous management of work buffers was rather ad hoc. As a result, switching to the gcWork abstraction changes many details of work buffer management. If greyobject fills a work buffer, it can now pull from work.partial in addition to work.empty. Previously, gcDrain started with a partial or empty work buffer and fetched an empty work buffer if it filled its current buffer (in greyobject). Now, gcDrain starts with a full work buffer and fetches an partial or empty work buffer if it fills its current buffer (in greyobject). The original behavior was bad because gcDrain would immediately drop the empty work buffer returned by greyobject and fetch a full work buffer, which greyobject was likely to immediately overflow, fetching another empty work buffer, etc. The new behavior isn't great at the start because greyobject is likely to immediately overflow the full buffer, but the steady-state behavior should be more stable. Both before and after this change, gcDrain fetches a full work buffer if it drains its current buffer. Basically all of these choices are bad; the right answer is to use a dual work buffer scheme. Previously, shade always fetched a work buffer (though usually from m.currentwbuf), even if the object was already marked. Now it only fetches a work buffer if it actually greys an object. Change-Id: I8b880ed660eb63135236fa5d5678f0c1c041881f Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5232 Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-02-17 08:53:31 -07:00
var gcw gcWork
gcDrain(&gcw, -1)
runtime: switch to gcWork abstraction This converts the garbage collector from directly manipulating work buffers to using the new gcWork abstraction. The previous management of work buffers was rather ad hoc. As a result, switching to the gcWork abstraction changes many details of work buffer management. If greyobject fills a work buffer, it can now pull from work.partial in addition to work.empty. Previously, gcDrain started with a partial or empty work buffer and fetched an empty work buffer if it filled its current buffer (in greyobject). Now, gcDrain starts with a full work buffer and fetches an partial or empty work buffer if it fills its current buffer (in greyobject). The original behavior was bad because gcDrain would immediately drop the empty work buffer returned by greyobject and fetch a full work buffer, which greyobject was likely to immediately overflow, fetching another empty work buffer, etc. The new behavior isn't great at the start because greyobject is likely to immediately overflow the full buffer, but the steady-state behavior should be more stable. Both before and after this change, gcDrain fetches a full work buffer if it drains its current buffer. Basically all of these choices are bad; the right answer is to use a dual work buffer scheme. Previously, shade always fetched a work buffer (though usually from m.currentwbuf), even if the object was already marked. Now it only fetches a work buffer if it actually greys an object. Change-Id: I8b880ed660eb63135236fa5d5678f0c1c041881f Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5232 Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-02-17 08:53:31 -07:00
gcw.dispose()
if work.full != 0 {
throw("work.full != 0")
}
if work.partial != 0 {
throw("work.partial != 0")
}
if work.nproc > 1 {
notesleep(&work.alldone)
}
if trace.enabled {
traceGCScanDone()
}
shrinkfinish()
cachestats()
runtime: introduce heap_live; replace use of heap_alloc in GC Currently there are two main consumers of memstats.heap_alloc: updatememstats (aka ReadMemStats) and shouldtriggergc. updatememstats recomputes heap_alloc from the ground up, so we don't need to keep heap_alloc up to date for it. shouldtriggergc wants to know how many bytes were marked by the previous GC plus how many bytes have been allocated since then, but this *isn't* what heap_alloc tracks. heap_alloc also includes objects that are not marked and haven't yet been swept. Introduce a new memstat called heap_live that actually tracks what shouldtriggergc wants to know and stop keeping heap_alloc up to date. Unlike heap_alloc, heap_live follows a simple sawtooth that drops during each mark termination and increases monotonically between GCs. heap_alloc, on the other hand, has much more complicated behavior: it may drop during sweep termination, slowly decreases from background sweeping between GCs, is roughly unaffected by allocation as long as there are unswept spans (because we sweep and allocate at the same rate), and may go up after background sweeping is done depending on the GC trigger. heap_live simplifies computing next_gc and using it to figure out when to trigger garbage collection. Currently, we guess next_gc at the end of a cycle and update it as we sweep and get a better idea of how much heap was marked. Now, since we're directly tracking how much heap is marked, we can directly compute next_gc. This also corrects bugs that could cause us to trigger GC early. Currently, in any case where sweep termination actually finds spans to sweep, heap_alloc is an overestimation of live heap, so we'll trigger GC too early. heap_live, on the other hand, is unaffected by sweeping. Change-Id: I1f96807b6ed60d4156e8173a8e68745ffc742388 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8389 Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-03-30 16:01:32 -06:00
// Trigger the next GC cycle when the allocated heap has
// grown by triggerRatio over the marked heap size.
runtime: introduce heap_live; replace use of heap_alloc in GC Currently there are two main consumers of memstats.heap_alloc: updatememstats (aka ReadMemStats) and shouldtriggergc. updatememstats recomputes heap_alloc from the ground up, so we don't need to keep heap_alloc up to date for it. shouldtriggergc wants to know how many bytes were marked by the previous GC plus how many bytes have been allocated since then, but this *isn't* what heap_alloc tracks. heap_alloc also includes objects that are not marked and haven't yet been swept. Introduce a new memstat called heap_live that actually tracks what shouldtriggergc wants to know and stop keeping heap_alloc up to date. Unlike heap_alloc, heap_live follows a simple sawtooth that drops during each mark termination and increases monotonically between GCs. heap_alloc, on the other hand, has much more complicated behavior: it may drop during sweep termination, slowly decreases from background sweeping between GCs, is roughly unaffected by allocation as long as there are unswept spans (because we sweep and allocate at the same rate), and may go up after background sweeping is done depending on the GC trigger. heap_live simplifies computing next_gc and using it to figure out when to trigger garbage collection. Currently, we guess next_gc at the end of a cycle and update it as we sweep and get a better idea of how much heap was marked. Now, since we're directly tracking how much heap is marked, we can directly compute next_gc. This also corrects bugs that could cause us to trigger GC early. Currently, in any case where sweep termination actually finds spans to sweep, heap_alloc is an overestimation of live heap, so we'll trigger GC too early. heap_live, on the other hand, is unaffected by sweeping. Change-Id: I1f96807b6ed60d4156e8173a8e68745ffc742388 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8389 Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-03-30 16:01:32 -06:00
memstats.heap_live = work.bytesMarked
memstats.heap_marked = work.bytesMarked
memstats.next_gc = uint64(float64(memstats.heap_live) * (1 + gcController.triggerRatio))
if memstats.next_gc < heapminimum {
memstats.next_gc = heapminimum
}
if trace.enabled {
runtime: introduce heap_live; replace use of heap_alloc in GC Currently there are two main consumers of memstats.heap_alloc: updatememstats (aka ReadMemStats) and shouldtriggergc. updatememstats recomputes heap_alloc from the ground up, so we don't need to keep heap_alloc up to date for it. shouldtriggergc wants to know how many bytes were marked by the previous GC plus how many bytes have been allocated since then, but this *isn't* what heap_alloc tracks. heap_alloc also includes objects that are not marked and haven't yet been swept. Introduce a new memstat called heap_live that actually tracks what shouldtriggergc wants to know and stop keeping heap_alloc up to date. Unlike heap_alloc, heap_live follows a simple sawtooth that drops during each mark termination and increases monotonically between GCs. heap_alloc, on the other hand, has much more complicated behavior: it may drop during sweep termination, slowly decreases from background sweeping between GCs, is roughly unaffected by allocation as long as there are unswept spans (because we sweep and allocate at the same rate), and may go up after background sweeping is done depending on the GC trigger. heap_live simplifies computing next_gc and using it to figure out when to trigger garbage collection. Currently, we guess next_gc at the end of a cycle and update it as we sweep and get a better idea of how much heap was marked. Now, since we're directly tracking how much heap is marked, we can directly compute next_gc. This also corrects bugs that could cause us to trigger GC early. Currently, in any case where sweep termination actually finds spans to sweep, heap_alloc is an overestimation of live heap, so we'll trigger GC too early. heap_live, on the other hand, is unaffected by sweeping. Change-Id: I1f96807b6ed60d4156e8173a8e68745ffc742388 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8389 Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-03-30 16:01:32 -06:00
traceHeapAlloc()
traceNextGC()
}
t4 := nanotime()
atomicstore64(&memstats.last_gc, uint64(unixnanotime())) // must be Unix time to make sense to user
memstats.pause_ns[memstats.numgc%uint32(len(memstats.pause_ns))] = uint64(t4 - t0)
memstats.pause_end[memstats.numgc%uint32(len(memstats.pause_end))] = uint64(t4)
memstats.pause_total_ns += uint64(t4 - t0)
}
func gcSweep(mode int) {
if gcphase != _GCoff {
throw("gcSweep being done but phase is not GCoff")
}
gcCopySpans()
lock(&mheap_.lock)
mheap_.sweepgen += 2
mheap_.sweepdone = 0
sweep.spanidx = 0
unlock(&mheap_.lock)
if !_ConcurrentSweep || mode == gcForceBlockMode {
// Special case synchronous sweep.
runtime: finish sweeping before concurrent GC starts Currently, the concurrent sweep follows a 1:1 rule: when allocation needs a span, it sweeps a span (likewise, when a large allocation needs N pages, it sweeps until it frees N pages). This rule worked well for the STW collector (especially when GOGC==100) because it did no more sweeping than necessary to keep the heap from growing, would generally finish sweeping just before GC, and ensured good temporal locality between sweeping a page and allocating from it. It doesn't work well with concurrent GC. Since concurrent GC requires starting GC earlier (sometimes much earlier), the sweep often won't be done when GC starts. Unfortunately, the first thing GC has to do is finish the sweep. In the mean time, the mutator can continue allocating, pushing the heap size even closer to the goal size. This worked okay with the 7/8ths trigger, but it gets into a vicious cycle with the GC trigger controller: if the mutator is allocating quickly and driving the trigger lower, more and more sweep work will be left to GC; this both causes GC to take longer (allowing the mutator to allocate more during GC) and delays the start of the concurrent mark phase, which throws off the GC controller's statistics and generally causes it to push the trigger even lower. As an example of a particularly bad case, the garbage benchmark with GOMAXPROCS=4 and -benchmem 512 (MB) spends the first 0.4-0.8 seconds of each GC cycle sweeping, during which the heap grows by between 109MB and 252MB. To fix this, this change replaces the 1:1 sweep rule with a proportional sweep rule. At the end of GC, GC knows exactly how much heap allocation will occur before the next concurrent GC as well as how many span pages must be swept. This change computes this "sweep ratio" and when the mallocgc asks for a span, the mcentral sweeps enough spans to bring the swept span count into ratio with the allocated byte count. On the benchmark from above, this entirely eliminates sweeping at the beginning of GC, which reduces the time between startGC readying the GC goroutine and GC stopping the world for sweep termination to ~100µs during which the heap grows at most 134KB. Change-Id: I35422d6bba0c2310d48bb1f8f30a72d29e98c1af Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8921 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-04-13 21:34:57 -06:00
// Record that no proportional sweeping has to happen.
lock(&mheap_.lock)
mheap_.sweepPagesPerByte = 0
mheap_.pagesSwept = 0
unlock(&mheap_.lock)
// Sweep all spans eagerly.
for sweepone() != ^uintptr(0) {
sweep.npausesweep++
}
// Do an additional mProf_GC, because all 'free' events are now real as well.
mProf_GC()
mProf_GC()
return
}
runtime: finish sweeping before concurrent GC starts Currently, the concurrent sweep follows a 1:1 rule: when allocation needs a span, it sweeps a span (likewise, when a large allocation needs N pages, it sweeps until it frees N pages). This rule worked well for the STW collector (especially when GOGC==100) because it did no more sweeping than necessary to keep the heap from growing, would generally finish sweeping just before GC, and ensured good temporal locality between sweeping a page and allocating from it. It doesn't work well with concurrent GC. Since concurrent GC requires starting GC earlier (sometimes much earlier), the sweep often won't be done when GC starts. Unfortunately, the first thing GC has to do is finish the sweep. In the mean time, the mutator can continue allocating, pushing the heap size even closer to the goal size. This worked okay with the 7/8ths trigger, but it gets into a vicious cycle with the GC trigger controller: if the mutator is allocating quickly and driving the trigger lower, more and more sweep work will be left to GC; this both causes GC to take longer (allowing the mutator to allocate more during GC) and delays the start of the concurrent mark phase, which throws off the GC controller's statistics and generally causes it to push the trigger even lower. As an example of a particularly bad case, the garbage benchmark with GOMAXPROCS=4 and -benchmem 512 (MB) spends the first 0.4-0.8 seconds of each GC cycle sweeping, during which the heap grows by between 109MB and 252MB. To fix this, this change replaces the 1:1 sweep rule with a proportional sweep rule. At the end of GC, GC knows exactly how much heap allocation will occur before the next concurrent GC as well as how many span pages must be swept. This change computes this "sweep ratio" and when the mallocgc asks for a span, the mcentral sweeps enough spans to bring the swept span count into ratio with the allocated byte count. On the benchmark from above, this entirely eliminates sweeping at the beginning of GC, which reduces the time between startGC readying the GC goroutine and GC stopping the world for sweep termination to ~100µs during which the heap grows at most 134KB. Change-Id: I35422d6bba0c2310d48bb1f8f30a72d29e98c1af Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8921 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
2015-04-13 21:34:57 -06:00
// Account how much sweeping needs to be done before the next
// GC cycle and set up proportional sweep statistics.
var pagesToSweep uintptr
for _, s := range work.spans {
if s.state == mSpanInUse {
pagesToSweep += s.npages
}
}
heapDistance := int64(memstats.next_gc) - int64(memstats.heap_live)
// Add a little margin so rounding errors and concurrent
// sweep are less likely to leave pages unswept when GC starts.
heapDistance -= 1024 * 1024
if heapDistance < _PageSize {
// Avoid setting the sweep ratio extremely high
heapDistance = _PageSize
}
lock(&mheap_.lock)
mheap_.sweepPagesPerByte = float64(pagesToSweep) / float64(heapDistance)
mheap_.pagesSwept = 0
unlock(&mheap_.lock)
// Background sweep.
lock(&sweep.lock)
if sweep.parked {
sweep.parked = false
ready(sweep.g, 0)
}
unlock(&sweep.lock)
mProf_GC()
}
func gcCopySpans() {
// Cache runtime.mheap_.allspans in work.spans to avoid conflicts with
// resizing/freeing allspans.
// New spans can be created while GC progresses, but they are not garbage for
// this round:
// - new stack spans can be created even while the world is stopped.
// - new malloc spans can be created during the concurrent sweep
// Even if this is stop-the-world, a concurrent exitsyscall can allocate a stack from heap.
lock(&mheap_.lock)
// Free the old cached mark array if necessary.
if work.spans != nil && &work.spans[0] != &h_allspans[0] {
sysFree(unsafe.Pointer(&work.spans[0]), uintptr(len(work.spans))*unsafe.Sizeof(work.spans[0]), &memstats.other_sys)
}
// Cache the current array for sweeping.
mheap_.gcspans = mheap_.allspans
work.spans = h_allspans
unlock(&mheap_.lock)
}
// gcResetGState resets the GC state of all G's and returns the length
// of allgs.
func gcResetGState() (numgs int) {
// This may be called during a concurrent phase, so make sure
// allgs doesn't change.
lock(&allglock)
for _, gp := range allgs {
gp.gcworkdone = false // set to true in gcphasework
gp.gcscanvalid = false // stack has not been scanned
gp.gcalloc = 0
gp.gcscanwork = 0
}
numgs = len(allgs)
unlock(&allglock)
return
}
// Hooks for other packages
var poolcleanup func()
//go:linkname sync_runtime_registerPoolCleanup sync.runtime_registerPoolCleanup
func sync_runtime_registerPoolCleanup(f func()) {
poolcleanup = f
}
func clearpools() {
// clear sync.Pools
if poolcleanup != nil {
poolcleanup()
}
// Clear central sudog cache.
// Leave per-P caches alone, they have strictly bounded size.
// Disconnect cached list before dropping it on the floor,
// so that a dangling ref to one entry does not pin all of them.
lock(&sched.sudoglock)
var sg, sgnext *sudog
for sg = sched.sudogcache; sg != nil; sg = sgnext {
sgnext = sg.next
sg.next = nil
}
sched.sudogcache = nil
unlock(&sched.sudoglock)
// Clear central defer pools.
// Leave per-P pools alone, they have strictly bounded size.
lock(&sched.deferlock)
for i := range sched.deferpool {
// disconnect cached list before dropping it on the floor,
// so that a dangling ref to one entry does not pin all of them.
var d, dlink *_defer
for d = sched.deferpool[i]; d != nil; d = dlink {
dlink = d.link
d.link = nil
}
sched.deferpool[i] = nil
}
unlock(&sched.deferlock)
for _, p := range &allp {
if p == nil {
break
}
// clear tinyalloc pool
if c := p.mcache; c != nil {
c.tiny = nil
c.tinyoffset = 0
}
}
}
// Timing
//go:nowritebarrier
func gchelper() {
_g_ := getg()
_g_.m.traceback = 2
gchelperstart()
if trace.enabled {
traceGCScanStart()
}
// parallel mark for over GC roots
parfordo(work.markfor)
if gcphase != _GCscan {
var gcw gcWork
gcDrain(&gcw, -1) // blocks in getfull
gcw.dispose()
}
if trace.enabled {
traceGCScanDone()
}
nproc := work.nproc // work.nproc can change right after we increment work.ndone
if xadd(&work.ndone, +1) == nproc-1 {
notewakeup(&work.alldone)
}
_g_.m.traceback = 0
}
func gchelperstart() {
_g_ := getg()
if _g_.m.helpgc < 0 || _g_.m.helpgc >= _MaxGcproc {
throw("gchelperstart: bad m->helpgc")
}
if _g_ != _g_.m.g0 {
throw("gchelper not running on g0 stack")
}
}
// gcchronograph holds timer information related to GC phases
// max records the maximum time spent in each GC phase since GCstarttimes.
// total records the total time spent in each GC phase since GCstarttimes.
// cycle records the absolute time (as returned by nanoseconds()) that each GC phase last started at.
type gcchronograph struct {
count int64
verbose int64
maxpause int64
max gctimes
total gctimes
cycle gctimes
}
// gctimes records the time in nanoseconds of each phase of the concurrent GC.
type gctimes struct {
sweepterm int64 // stw
scan int64
installmarkwb int64 // stw
mark int64
markterm int64 // stw
sweep int64
}
var gctimer gcchronograph
// GCstarttimes initializes the gc times. All previous times are lost.
func GCstarttimes(verbose int64) {
gctimer = gcchronograph{verbose: verbose}
}
// GCendtimes stops the gc timers.
func GCendtimes() {
gctimer.verbose = 0
}
// calctimes converts gctimer.cycle into the elapsed times, updates gctimer.total
// and updates gctimer.max with the max pause time.
func calctimes() gctimes {
var times gctimes
var max = func(a, b int64) int64 {
if a > b {
return a
}
return b
}
times.sweepterm = gctimer.cycle.scan - gctimer.cycle.sweepterm
gctimer.total.sweepterm += times.sweepterm
gctimer.max.sweepterm = max(gctimer.max.sweepterm, times.sweepterm)
gctimer.maxpause = max(gctimer.maxpause, gctimer.max.sweepterm)
times.scan = gctimer.cycle.installmarkwb - gctimer.cycle.scan
gctimer.total.scan += times.scan
gctimer.max.scan = max(gctimer.max.scan, times.scan)
times.installmarkwb = gctimer.cycle.mark - gctimer.cycle.installmarkwb
gctimer.total.installmarkwb += times.installmarkwb
gctimer.max.installmarkwb = max(gctimer.max.installmarkwb, times.installmarkwb)
gctimer.maxpause = max(gctimer.maxpause, gctimer.max.installmarkwb)
times.mark = gctimer.cycle.markterm - gctimer.cycle.mark
gctimer.total.mark += times.mark
gctimer.max.mark = max(gctimer.max.mark, times.mark)
times.markterm = gctimer.cycle.sweep - gctimer.cycle.markterm
gctimer.total.markterm += times.markterm
gctimer.max.markterm = max(gctimer.max.markterm, times.markterm)
gctimer.maxpause = max(gctimer.maxpause, gctimer.max.markterm)
return times
}
// GCprinttimes prints latency information in nanoseconds about various
// phases in the GC. The information for each phase includes the maximum pause
// and total time since the most recent call to GCstarttimes as well as
// the information from the most recent Concurent GC cycle. Calls from the
// application to runtime.GC() are ignored.
func GCprinttimes() {
if gctimer.verbose == 0 {
println("GC timers not enabled")
return
}
// Explicitly put times on the heap so printPhase can use it.
times := new(gctimes)
*times = calctimes()
cycletime := gctimer.cycle.sweep - gctimer.cycle.sweepterm
pause := times.sweepterm + times.installmarkwb + times.markterm
gomaxprocs := GOMAXPROCS(-1)
printlock()
print("GC: #", gctimer.count, " ", cycletime, "ns @", gctimer.cycle.sweepterm, " pause=", pause, " maxpause=", gctimer.maxpause, " goroutines=", allglen, " gomaxprocs=", gomaxprocs, "\n")
printPhase := func(label string, get func(*gctimes) int64, procs int) {
print("GC: ", label, " ", get(times), "ns\tmax=", get(&gctimer.max), "\ttotal=", get(&gctimer.total), "\tprocs=", procs, "\n")
}
printPhase("sweep term:", func(t *gctimes) int64 { return t.sweepterm }, gomaxprocs)
printPhase("scan: ", func(t *gctimes) int64 { return t.scan }, 1)
printPhase("install wb:", func(t *gctimes) int64 { return t.installmarkwb }, gomaxprocs)
printPhase("mark: ", func(t *gctimes) int64 { return t.mark }, 1)
printPhase("mark term: ", func(t *gctimes) int64 { return t.markterm }, gomaxprocs)
printunlock()
}
// itoaDiv formats val/(10**dec) into buf.
func itoaDiv(buf []byte, val uint64, dec int) []byte {
i := len(buf) - 1
idec := i - dec
for val >= 10 || i >= idec {
buf[i] = byte(val%10 + '0')
i--
if i == idec {
buf[i] = '.'
i--
}
val /= 10
}
buf[i] = byte(val + '0')
return buf[i:]
}