This is an experiment to see if removing the boundary bit logic will
lead to fewer cache misses and improved performance. Instead of using
boundary bits we use the span information to get element size and use
some bit whacking to get the boundary without having to touch the
random heap bits which cause cache misses.
Furthermore once the boundary bit is removed we can either use that
bit for a simpler checkmark routine or we can reduce the number of
bits in the GC bitmap to 2 bits per pointer sized work. For example
the 2 bits at the boundary can be used for marking and pointer/scalar
differentiation. Since we don't need the mark bit except at the
boundary nibble of the object other nibbles can use this bit
as a noscan bit to indicate that there are no more pointers in
the object.
Currently the changed included in this CL slows down the garbage
benchmark. With the boundary bits garbage gives 5.78 and without
(this CL) it gives 5.88 which is a 2% slowdown.
Change-Id: Id68f831ad668176f7dc9f7b57b339e4ebb6dc4c2
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/6665
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
Move code from malloc1.go, malloc2.go, mem.go, mgc0.go into
appropriate locations.
Factor mgc.go into mgc.go, mgcmark.go, mgcsweep.go, mstats.go.
A lot of this code was in certain files because the right place was in
a C file but it was written in Go, or vice versa. This is one step toward
making things actually well-organized again.
Change-Id: I6741deb88a7cfb1c17ffe0bcca3989e10207968f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5300
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
The code in mfinal.go is moved from malloc*.go and mgc*.go
and substantially unchanged.
The code in mbitmap.go is also moved from those files, but
cleaned up so that it can be called from those files (in most cases
the code being moved was not already a standalone function).
I also renamed the constants and wrote comments describing
the format. The result is a significant cleanup and isolation of
the bitmap code, but, roughly speaking, it should be treated
and reviewed as new code.
The other files changed only as much as necessary to support
this code movement.
This CL does NOT change the semantics of the heap or type
bitmaps at all, although there are now some obvious opportunities
to do so in followup CLs.
Change-Id: I41b8d5de87ad1d3cd322709931ab25e659dbb21d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2991
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Rename "gothrow" to "throw" now that the C version of "throw"
is no longer needed.
This change is purely mechanical except in panic.go where the
old version of "throw" has been deleted.
sed -i "" 's/[[:<:]]gothrow[[:>:]]/throw/g' runtime/*.go
Change-Id: Icf0752299c35958b92870a97111c67bcd9159dc3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2150
Reviewed-by: Minux Ma <minux@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Cheney <dave@cheney.net>
The conversion was done with an automated tool and then
modified only as necessary to make it compile and run.
[This CL is part of the removal of C code from package runtime.
See golang.org/s/dev.cc for an overview.]
LGTM=r
R=r
CC=austin, dvyukov, golang-codereviews, iant, khr
https://golang.org/cl/167540043
