Currently callers of gcDrain control whether it flushes scan work
credit to gcController.bgScanCredit by passing a value other than -1
for the flush threshold. Shortly we're going to make this always flush
scan work to gcController.scanWork and optionally also flush scan work
to gcController.bgScanCredit. This will be much easier if the flush
threshold is simply a constant (which it is in practice) and callers
merely control whether or not the flush includes the background
credit. Hence, replace the flush threshold argument with a flag.
Change-Id: Ia27db17de8a3f1e462a5d7137d4b5dc72f99a04e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15406
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
These functions were nearly identical. Consolidate them by adding a
flags argument. In addition to cleaning up this code, this makes
further changes that affect both functions easier.
Change-Id: I6ec5c947603bbbd3ff4040113b2fbc240e99745f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15405
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
The comment for assistRatio claimed it to be the reciprocal of what it
actually is.
Change-Id: If7f9bb853d75d0097facff3aa6704b224d9108b8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15402
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
In general, finishsweep_m must block until any spans that are
concurrently being swept have been swept. It accomplishes this by
looping over all spans, which, as in the previous commit, takes
~1ms/heap GB. Unfortunately, we do this during the STW sweep
termination phase, so multi-gigabyte heaps can push our STW time past
10ms.
However, there's no need to do this wait if the world is stopped
because, in effect, stopping the world already had to wait for
anything that was sweeping (and if it didn't, the wait in
finishsweep_m would deadlock). Hence, we can simply skip this loop if
the world is stopped, such as during sweep termination. In fact,
currently all calls to finishsweep_m are STW, but this hasn't always
been the case and may not be the case in the future, so we keep the
logic around.
For 24GB heaps, this reduces max pause time by 75% relative to tip and
by 90% relative to Go 1.5. Notably, all pauses are now well under
10ms. Here are the results for the garbage benchmark:
------------- max pause ------------
Heap Procs after change before change 1.5.1
24GB 12 3.8ms 16ms 37ms
24GB 4 3.7ms 16ms 37ms
4GB 4 3.7ms 3ms 6.9ms
In the 4GB/4P case, it seems the "before change" run got lucky: the
max went up, but the 99%ile pause time went down from 3ms to 2.04ms.
Change-Id: Ica22189559f231d408ef2815019c9dbb5f38bf31
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15071
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
In order to compute the sweep ratio, the runtime needs to know how
many pages belong to spans in state _MSpanInUse. Currently it finds
this out by looping over all spans during mark termination. However,
this takes ~1ms/heap GB, so multi-gigabyte heaps can quickly push our
STW time past 10ms.
Replace the loop with an actively maintained count of in-use pages.
For multi-gigabyte heaps, this reduces max mark termination pause time
by 75%–90% relative to tip and by 85%–95% relative to Go 1.5.1. This
shifts the longest pause time for large heaps to the sweep termination
phase, so it only slightly decreases max pause time, though it roughly
halves mean pause time. Here are the results for the garbage
benchmark:
---- max mark termination pause ----
Heap Procs after change before change 1.5.1
24GB 12 1.9ms 18ms 37ms
24GB 4 3.7ms 18ms 37ms
4GB 4 920µs 3.8ms 6.9ms
Fixes#11484.
Change-Id: Ia2d28bb8a1e4f1c3b8ebf79fb203f12b9bf114ac
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15070
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
This reduces pause time by ~25% relative to tip and by ~50% relative
to Go 1.5.1.
Currently one of the steps of STW mark termination is to loop (in
parallel) over all spans to find objects with finalizers in order to
mark all objects reachable from these objects and to treat the
finalizer special as a root. Unfortunately, even if there are no
finalizers at all, this loop takes roughly 1 ms/heap GB/core, so
multi-gigabyte heaps can quickly push our STW time past 10ms.
Fix this by moving this scan from mark termination to concurrent scan,
where it can run in parallel with mutators. The loop itself could also
be optimized, but this cost is small compared to concurrent marking.
Making this scan concurrent introduces two complications:
1) The scan currently walks the specials list of each span without
locking it, which is safe only with the world stopped. We fix this by
speculatively checking if a span has any specials (the vast majority
won't) and then locking the specials list only if there are specials
to check.
2) An object can have a finalizer set after concurrent scan, in which
case it won't have been marked appropriately by concurrent scan. If
the finalizer is a closure and is only reachable from the special, it
could be swept before it is run. Likewise, if the object is not marked
yet when the finalizer is set and then becomes unreachable before it
is marked, other objects reachable only from it may be swept before
the finalizer function is run. We fix this issue by making
addfinalizer ensure the same marking invariants as markroot does.
For multi-gigabyte heaps, this reduces max pause time by 20%–30%
relative to tip (depending on GOMAXPROCS) and by ~50% relative to Go
1.5.1 (where this loop was neither concurrent nor parallel). Here are
the results for the garbage benchmark:
---------------- max pause ----------------
Heap Procs Concurrent scan STW parallel scan 1.5.1
24GB 12 18ms 23ms 37ms
24GB 4 18ms 25ms 37ms
4GB 4 3.8ms 4.9ms 6.9ms
In all cases, 95%ile pause time is similar to the max pause time. This
also improves mean STW time by 10%–30%.
Fixes#11485.
Change-Id: I9359d8c3d120a51d23d924b52bf853a1299b1dfd
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/14982
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Currently, the GC modes constants are untyped and functions pass them
around as ints. Clean this up by introducing a proper type for these
constant.
Change-Id: Ibc022447bdfa203644921fbb548312d7e2272e8d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/14981
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
This puts the _Root* indexes in a more friendly order and tweaks
markrootSpans to use a for-range loop instead of its own indexing.
Change-Id: I2c18d55c9a673ea396b6424d51ef4997a1a74825
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/14548
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Marking of span roots can represent a significant fraction of the time
spent in mark termination. Simply traversing the span list takes about
1ms per GB of heap and if there are a large number of finalizers (for
example, for network connections), it may take much longer.
Improve the situation by splitting the span scan into 128 subtasks
that can be executed in parallel and load balanced by the markroots
parallel for. This lets the GC balance this job across the Ps.
A better solution is to do this during concurrent mark, or to improve
it algorithmically, but this is a simple change with a lot of bang for
the buck.
This was suggested by Rhys Hiltner.
Updates #11485.
Change-Id: I8b281adf0ba827064e154a1b6cc32d4d8031c03c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13112
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Currently the stack barrier code is mixed in with the mark and scan
code. Move all of the stack barrier related functions and variables to
a new dedicated source file. There are no code modifications.
Change-Id: I604603045465ef8573b9f88915d28ab6b5910903
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/14050
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Currently enabling the debugging mode where stack barriers are
installed at every frame requires recompiling the runtime. However,
this is potentially useful for field debugging and for runtime tests,
so make this mode a GODEBUG.
Updates #12238.
Change-Id: I6fb128f598b19568ae723a612e099c0ed96917f5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13947
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
88e945f introduced a non-speculative double check of the heap trigger
before actually starting a concurrent GC. This was necessary to fix a
race for heap-triggered GC, but broke sysmon-triggered periodic GC,
since the heap check will of course fail for periodically triggered
GC.
Fix this by telling startGC whether or not this GC was triggered by
heap size or a timer and only doing the heap size double check for GCs
triggered by heap size.
Fixes#12026.
Change-Id: I7c3f6ec364545c36d619f2b4b3bf3b758e3bcbd6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13168
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
When commit 510fd13 enabled assists during the scan phase, it failed
to also update the code in the GC controller that computed the assist
CPU utilization and adjusted the trigger based on it. Fix that code so
it uses the start of the scan phase as the wall-clock time when
assists were enabled rather than the start of the mark phase.
Change-Id: I05013734b4448c3e2c730dc7b0b5ee28c86ed8cf
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13048
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
At the start of a GC cycle, the garbage collector computes the assist
ratio based on the total scannable heap size. This was intended to be
conservative; after all, this assumes the entire heap may be reachable
and hence needs to be scanned. But it only assumes that the *current*
entire heap may be reachable. It fails to account for heap allocated
during the GC cycle. If the trigger ratio is very low (near zero), and
most of the heap is reachable when GC starts (which is likely if the
trigger ratio is near zero), then it's possible for the mutator to
create new, reachable heap fast enough that the assists won't keep up
based on the assist ratio computed at the beginning of the cycle. As a
result, the heap can grow beyond the heap goal (by hundreds of megs in
stress tests like in issue #11911).
We already have some vestigial logic for dealing with situations like
this; it just doesn't run often enough. Currently, every 10 ms during
the GC cycle, the GC revises the assist ratio. This was put in before
we switched to a conservative assist ratio (when we really were using
estimates of scannable heap), and it turns out to be exactly what we
need now. However, every 10 ms is far too infrequent for a rapidly
allocating mutator.
This commit reuses this logic, but replaces the 10 ms timer with
revising the assist ratio every time the heap is locked, which
coincides precisely with when the statistics used to compute the
assist ratio are updated.
Fixes#11911.
Change-Id: I377b231ab064946228378fa10422a46d1b50f4c5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13047
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
This was useful in debugging the mutator assist behavior for #11911,
and it fits with the other gcpacertrace output.
Change-Id: I1e25590bb4098223a160de796578bd11086309c7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13046
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Proportional concurrent sweep is currently based on a ratio of spans
to be swept per bytes of object allocation. However, proportional
sweeping is performed during span allocation, not object allocation,
in order to minimize contention and overhead. Since objects are
allocated from spans after those spans are allocated, the system tends
to operate in debt, which means when the next GC cycle starts, there
is often sweep debt remaining, so GC has to finish the sweep, which
delays the start of the cycle and delays enabling mutator assists.
For example, it's quite likely that many Ps will simultaneously refill
their span caches immediately after a GC cycle (because GC flushes the
span caches), but at this point, there has been very little object
allocation since the end of GC, so very little sweeping is done. The
Ps then allocate objects from these cached spans, which drives up the
bytes of object allocation, but since these allocations are coming
from cached spans, nothing considers whether more sweeping has to
happen. If the sweep ratio is high enough (which can happen if the
next GC trigger is very close to the retained heap size), this can
easily represent a sweep debt of thousands of pages.
Fix this by making proportional sweep proportional to the number of
bytes of spans allocated, rather than the number of bytes of objects
allocated. Prior to allocating a span, both the small object path and
the large object path ensure credit for allocating that span, so the
system operates in the black, rather than in the red.
Combined with the previous commit, this should eliminate all sweeping
from GC start up. On the stress test in issue #11911, this reduces the
time spent sweeping during GC (and delaying start up) by several
orders of magnitude:
mean 99%ile max
pre fix 1 ms 11 ms 144 ms
post fix 270 ns 735 ns 916 ns
Updates #11911.
Change-Id: I89223712883954c9d6ec2a7a51ecb97172097df3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13044
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Currently it's possible for the next_gc heap size trigger computed for
the next GC cycle to be less than the current allocated heap size.
This means the next cycle will start immediately, which means there's
no time to perform the concurrent sweep between GC cycles. This places
responsibility for finishing the sweep on GC itself, which delays GC
start-up and hence delays mutator assist.
Fix this by ensuring that next_gc is always at least a little higher
than the allocated heap size, so we won't trigger the next cycle
instantly.
Updates #11911.
Change-Id: I74f0b887bf187518d5fedffc7989817cbcf30592
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13043
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Currently allocation checks the GC trigger speculatively during
allocation and then triggers the GC without rechecking. As a result,
it's possible for G 1 and G 2 to detect the trigger simultaneously,
both enter startGC, G 1 actually starts GC while G 2 gets preempted
until after the whole GC cycle, then G 2 immediately starts another GC
cycle even though the heap is now well under the trigger.
Fix this by re-checking the GC trigger non-speculatively just before
actually kicking off a new GC cycle.
This contributes to #11911 because when this happens, we definitely
don't finish the background sweep before starting the next GC cycle,
which can significantly delay the start of concurrent scan.
Change-Id: I560ab79ba5684ba435084410a9765d28f5745976
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13025
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Dangling pointer error. Unlikely to trigger in practice, but still.
Found by running GODEBUG=efence=1 GOGC=1 trace.test.
Change-Id: Ice474dedcf62dd33ab77526287a023ba3b166db9
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12991
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
This adds a GCCPUFraction field to MemStats that reports the
cumulative fraction of the program's execution time spent in the
garbage collector. This is equivalent to the utilization percent shown
in the gctrace output and makes this available programmatically.
This does make one small effect on the gctrace output: we now report
the duration of mark termination up to just before the final
start-the-world, rather than up to just after. However, unlike
stop-the-world, I don't believe there's any way that start-the-world
can block, so it should take negligible time.
While there are many statistics one might want to expose via MemStats,
this is one of the few that will undoubtedly remain meaningful
regardless of future changes to the memory system.
The diff for this change is larger than the actual change. Mostly it
lifts the code for computing the GC CPU utilization out of the
debug.gctrace path.
Updates #10323.
Change-Id: I0f7dc3fdcafe95e8d1233ceb79de606b48acd989
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12844
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Currently we only capture GC phase transition times if
debug.gctrace>0, but we're about to compute GC CPU utilization
regardless of whether debug.gctrace is set, so we need these
regardless of debug.gctrace.
Change-Id: If3acf16505a43d416e9a99753206f03287180660
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12843
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
The scheduler, work buffer's dispose, and write barriers
can conspire to hide the a pointer from the GC's concurent
mark phase. If this pointer is the only path to a large
amount of marking the STW mark termination phase may take
a lot of time.
Consider the following:
1) dispose places a work buffer on the partial queue
2) the GC is busy so it does not immediately remove and
process the work buffer
3) the scheduler runs a mutator whose write barrier dequeues the
work buffer from the partial queue so the GC won't see it
This repeats until the GC reaches the mark termination
phase where the GC finally discovers the pointer along
with a lot of work to do.
This CL fixes the problem by having the mutator
dispose of the buffer to the full queue instead of
the partial queue. Since the write buffer never asks for full
buffers the conspiracy described above is not possible.
Updates #11694.
Change-Id: I2ce832f9657a7570f800e8ce4459cd9e304ef43b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12840
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
Currently we enter mark 2 by first flushing all existing gcWork caches
and then setting gcBlackenPromptly, which disables further gcWork
caching. However, if a worker or assist pulls a work buffer in to its
gcWork cache after that cache has been flushed but before caching is
disabled, that work may remain in that cache until mark termination.
If that work represents a heap bottleneck (e.g., a single pointer that
is the only way to reach a large amount of the heap), this can force
mark termination to do a large amount of work, resulting in a long
STW.
Fix this by reversing the order of these steps: first disable caching,
then flush all existing caches.
Rick Hudson <rlh> did the hard work of tracking this down. This CL
combined with CL 12672 and CL 12646 distills the critical parts of his
fix from CL 12539.
Fixes#11694.
Change-Id: Ib10d0a21e3f6170a80727d0286f9990df049fed2
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12688
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Currently the GC coordinator enables GC assists at the same time it
enables background mark workers, after the concurrent scan phase is
done. However, this means a rapidly allocating mutator has the entire
scan phase during which to allocate beyond the heap trigger and
potentially beyond the heap goal with no back-pressure from assists.
This prevents the feedback system that's supposed to keep the heap
size under the heap goal from doing its job.
Fix this by enabling mutator assists during the scan phase. This is
safe because the write barrier is already enabled and globally
acknowledged at this point.
There's still a very small window between when the heap size reaches
the heap trigger and when the GC coordinator is able to stop the world
during which the mutator can allocate unabated. This allows *very*
rapidly allocator mutators like TestTraceStress to still occasionally
exceed the heap goal by a small amount (~20 MB at most for
TestTraceStress). However, this seems like a corner case.
Fixes#11677.
Change-Id: I0f80d949ec82341cd31ca1604a626efb7295a819
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12674
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Currently we clear both the mark 1 and mark 2 signals at the beginning
of concurrent mark. If either if these is clear, it acts as a signal
to the scheduler that it should start background workers. However,
this means that in the interim *between* mark 1 and mark 2, the
scheduler basically loops starting up new workers only to have them
return with nothing to do. In addition to harming performance and
delaying mutator work, this approach has a race where workers started
for mark 1 can mistakenly signal mark 2, causing it to complete
prematurely. This approach also interferes with starting assists
earlier to fix#11677.
Fix this by initially setting both mark 1 and mark 2 to "signaled".
The scheduler will not start background mark workers, though assists
can still run. When we're ready to enter mark 1, we clear the mark 1
signal and wait for it. Then, when we're ready to enter mark 2, we
clear the mark 2 signal and wait for it.
This structure also lets us deal cleanly with the situation where all
work is drained *prior* to the mark 2 wait, meaning that there may be
no workers to signal completion. Currently we deal with this using a
racy (and possibly incorrect) check for work in the coordinator itself
to skip the mark 2 wait if there's no work. This change makes the
coordinator unconditionally wait for mark completion and makes the
scheduler itself signal completion by slightly extending the logic it
already has to determine that there's no work and hence no use in
starting a new worker.
This is a prerequisite to fixing the remaining component of #11677,
which will require enabling assists during the scan phase. However, we
don't want to enable background workers until the mark phase because
they will compete with the scan. This change lets us use bgMark1 and
bgMark2 to indicate when it's okay to start background workers
independent of assists.
This is also a prerequisite to fixing #11694. It significantly reduces
the occurrence of long mark termination pauses in #11694 (from 64 out
of 1000 to 2 out of 1000 in one experiment).
Coincidentally, this also reduces the final heap size (and hence run
time) of TestTraceStress from ~100 MB and ~1.9 seconds to ~14 MB and
~0.4 seconds because it significantly shortens concurrent mark
duration.
Rick Hudson <rlh> did the hard work of tracking this down.
Change-Id: I12ea9ee2db9a0ae9d3a90dde4944a75fcf408f4c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12672
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Currently it's possible for the GC assist to signal completion of the
mark phase, which puts the GC coordinator goroutine on the current P's
run queue, and then return to mutator code that delays until the next
forced preemption before actually yielding control to the GC
coordinator, dragging out completion of the mark phase. This delay can
be further exacerbated if the mutator makes other goroutines runnable
before yielding control, since this will push the GC coordinator on
the back of the P's run queue.
To fix this, this adds a Gosched to the assist if it completed the
mark phase. This immediately and directly yields control to the GC
coordinator. This already happens implicitly in the background mark
workers because they park immediately after completing the mark.
This is one of the reasons completion of the mark phase is being
dragged out and allowing the mutator to allocate without assisting,
leading to the large heap goal overshoot in issue #11677. This is also
a prerequisite to making the assist block when it can't pay off its
debt.
Change-Id: I586adfbecb3ca042a37966752c1dc757f5c7fc78
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12670
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Currently fractional and idle mark workers dispose of their gcWork
cache during mark 2 after incrementing work.nwait and after checking
whether there are any workers or any work available. This creates a
window for two races:
1) If the only remaining work is in this worker's gcWork cache, it
will see that there are no more workers and no more work on the
global lists (since it has not yet flushed its own cache) and
prematurely signal mark 2 completion.
2) After this worker has incremented work.nwait but before it has
flushed its cache, another worker may observe that there are no
more workers and no more work and prematurely signal mark 2
completion.
We can fix both of these by simply moving the cache flush above the
increment of nwait and the test of the completion condition.
This is probably contributing to #11694, though this alone is not
enough to fix it.
Change-Id: Idcf9656e5c460c5ea0d23c19c6c51e951f7716c3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12646
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Currently the gctrace output reports the trigger heap size, rather
than the actual heap size at the beginning of GC. Often these are the
same, or at least very close. However, it's possible for the heap to
already have exceeded this trigger when we first check the trigger and
start GC; in this case, this output is very misleading. We've
encountered this confusion a few times when debugging and this
behavior is difficult to document succinctly.
Change the gctrace output to report the actual heap size when GC
starts, rather than the trigger.
Change-Id: I246b3ccae4c4c7ea44c012e70d24a46878d7601f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12452
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Whenever someone pastes gctrace output into GitHub, it helpfully turns
the GC cycle number into a link to some unrelated issue. Prevent this
by removing the pound before the cycle number. The fact that this is a
cycle number is probably more obvious at a glance than most of the
other numbers.
Change-Id: Ifa5fc7fe6c715eac50e639f25bc36c81a132ffea
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12413
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
The runtime.GC documentation was rewritten in df2809f to make it clear
that it blocks until GC is complete, but the re-rewrite in ed9a4c9 and
e28a679 lost this property when clarifying that it may also block the
entire program and not just the caller.
Try to arrive at wording that conveys both of these properties.
Change-Id: I1e255322aa28a21a548556ecf2a44d8d8ac524ef
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12392
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
We shouldn't guarantee this behavior, but suggest it's possible.
Change-Id: I4c2afb48b99be4d91537306d3337171a13c9990a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12346
Reviewed-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>
No code changes. Just make it clear that runtime.GC is not concurrent.
Change-Id: I00a99ebd26402817c665c9a128978cef19f037be
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12345
Reviewed-by: Dave Cheney <dave@cheney.net>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
These memstats are currently being computed by gcMark, which was
appropriate in Go 1.4, but gcMark is now just one part of a bigger
picture. In particular, it can't account for the sweep termination
pause time, it can't account for all of the mark termination pause
time, and the reported "pause end" and "last GC" times will be
slightly earlier than they really are.
Lift computing of these statistics into func gc, which has the
appropriate visibility into the process to compute them correctly.
Fixes one of the issues in #10323. This does not add new statistics
appropriate to the concurrent collector; it simply fixes existing
statistics that are being misreported.
Change-Id: I670cb16594a8641f6b27acf4472db15b6e8e086e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11794
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Currently we report MemStats.PauseEnd in nanoseconds, but with no
particular 0 time. On Linux, the 0 time is when the host started. On
Darwin, it's the UNIX epoch. This is also inconsistent with the other
absolute time in MemStats, LastGC, which is always reported in
nanoseconds since 1970.
Fix PauseEnd so it's always reported in nanoseconds since 1970, like
LastGC.
Fixes one of the issues raised in #10323.
Change-Id: Ie2fe3169d45113992363a03b764f4e6c47e5c6a8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11801
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
The one in misc/makerelease/makerelease.go is particularly bad and
probably warrants rotating our keys.
I didn't update old weekly notes, and reverted some changes involving
test code for now, since we're late in the Go 1.5 freeze. Otherwise,
the rest are all auto-generated changes, and all manually reviewed.
Change-Id: Ia2753576ab5d64826a167d259f48a2f50508792d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12048
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Currently we fail to reset the live heap accounting state before the
checkmark mark and before the gctrace=2 extra mark. As a result, if
either are enabled, at the end of GC it thinks there are 0 bytes of
live heap, which causes the GC controller to initiate a new GC
immediately, regardless of the true heap size.
Fix this by factoring this state reset into a function and calling it
before all three possible marks.
This function should be merged with gcResetGState, but doing so
requires some additional cleanup, so it will wait for after the
freeze. Filed #11427 for this cleanup.
Fixes#10492.
Change-Id: Ibe46348916fc8368fac6f086e142815c970a6f4d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11561
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Memory for stacks is manually managed by the runtime and, currently
(with one exception) we free stack spans immediately when the last
stack on a span is freed. However, the garbage collector assumes that
spans can never transition from non-free to free during scan or mark.
This disagreement makes it possible for the garbage collector to mark
uninitialized objects and is blocking us from re-enabling the bad
pointer test in the garbage collector (issue #9880).
For example, the following sequence will result in marking an
uninitialized object:
1. scanobject loads a pointer slot out of the object it's scanning.
This happens to be one of the special pointers from the heap into a
stack. Call the pointer p and suppose it points into X's stack.
2. X, running on another thread, grows its stack and frees its old
stack.
3. The old stack happens to be large or was the last stack in its
span, so X frees this span, setting it to state _MSpanFree.
4. The span gets reused as a heap span.
5. scanobject calls heapBitsForObject, which loads the span containing
p, which is now in state _MSpanInUse, but doesn't necessarily have
an object at p. The not-object at p gets marked, and at this point
all sorts of things can go wrong.
We already have a partial solution to this. When shrinking a stack, we
put the old stack on a queue to be freed at the end of garbage
collection. This was done to address exactly this problem, but wasn't
a complete solution.
This commit generalizes this solution to both shrinking and growing
stacks. For stacks that fit in the stack pool, we simply don't free
the span, even if its reference count reaches zero. It's fine to reuse
the span for other stacks, and this enables that. At the end of GC, we
sweep for cached stack spans with a zero reference count and free
them. For larger stacks, we simply queue the stack span to be freed at
the end of GC. Ideally, we would reuse these large stack spans the way
we can small stack spans, but that's a more invasive change that will
have to wait until after the freeze.
Fixes#11267.
Change-Id: Ib7f2c5da4845cc0268e8dc098b08465116972a71
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11502
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
We don't use this state. _GCoff means we're sweeping in the
background. This makes it clear in the next commit that _GCoff and
only _GCoff means sweeping.
Change-Id: I416324a829ba0be3794a6cf3cf1655114cb6e47c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11501
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Some latency regressions have crept into our system over the past few
weeks. This CL fixes those by having the mark phase more aggressively
blacken objects so that the mark termination phase, a STW phase, has less
work to do. Three approaches were taken when the mark phase believes
it has no more work to do, ie all the work buffers are empty.
If things have gone well the mark phase is correct and there is
in fact little or no work. In that case the following items will
take very little time. If the mark phase is wrong this CL will
ferret that work out and give the mark phase a chance to deal with
it concurrently before mark termination begins.
When the mark phase first appears to be out of work, it does three things:
1) It switches from allocating white to allocating black to reduce the
number of unmarked objects reachable only from stacks.
2) It flushes and disables per-P GC work caches so all work must be in
globally visible work buffers.
3) It rescans the global roots---the BSS and data segments---so there
are fewer objects to blacken during mark termination. We do not rescan
stacks at this point, though that could be done in a later CL.
After these steps, it again drains the global work buffers.
On a lightly loaded machine the garbage benchmark has reduced the
number of GC cycles with latency > 10 ms from 83 out of 4083 cycles
down to 2 out of 3995 cycles. Maximum latency was reduced from
60+ msecs down to 20 ms.
Change-Id: I152285b48a7e56c5083a02e8e4485dd39c990492
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10590
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
This fixes a hang during runtime.TestTraceStress.
It also fixes double-scan of stacks, which leads to
stack barrier installation failures.
Both of these have shown up as flaky failures on the dashboard.
Fixes#10941.
Change-Id: Ia2a5991ce2c9f43ba06ae1c7032f7c898dc990e0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11089
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
While we're here, update the documentation and delete variables with no effect.
Change-Id: I4df0d266dff880df61b488ed547c2870205862f0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10790
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
These were found by grepping the comments from the go code and feeding
the output to aspell.
Change-Id: Id734d6c8d1938ec3c36bd94a4dbbad577e3ad395
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10941
Reviewed-by: Aamir Khan <syst3m.w0rm@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Currently, write barriers are only enabled after completion of the
concurrent scan phase, as we enter the concurrent mark phase. However,
stack barriers are installed during the scan phase and assume that
write barriers will track changes to frames above the stack
barriers. Since write barriers aren't enabled until after stack
barriers are installed, we may miss modifications to the stack that
happen after installing the stack barriers and before enabling write
barriers.
Fix this by enabling write barriers during the scan phase.
This commit intentionally makes the minimal change to do this (there's
only one line of code change; the rest are comment changes). At the
very least, we should consider eliminating the ragged barrier that's
intended to synchronize the enabling of write barriers, but now just
wastes time. I've included a large comment about extensions and
alternative designs.
Change-Id: Ib20fede794e4fcb91ddf36f99bd97344d7f96421
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10795
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Currently checkmarks mode fails to rescan stacks because it sees the
leftover state bits indicating that the stacks haven't changed since
the last scan. As a result, it won't detect lost marks caused by
failing to scan stacks correctly during regular garbage collection.
Fix this by marking all stacks dirty before performing the checkmark
phase.
Change-Id: I1f06882bb8b20257120a4b8e7f95bb3ffc263895
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10794
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Currently the GODEBUG=gctrace=1 trace line includes "@n.nnns" to
indicate the time that the GC cycle ended relative to the time the
program started. This was meant to be consistent with the utilization
as of the end of the cycle, which is printed next on the trace line,
but it winds up just being confusing and unexpected.
Change the trace line to include the time that the GC cycle started
relative to the time the program started.
Change-Id: I7d64580cd696eb17540716d3e8a74a9d6ae50650
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10634
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
The stack barrier code will need a bookkeeping structure to keep track
of the overwritten return PCs. This commit introduces and allocates
this structure, but does not yet use the structure.
We don't want to allocate space for this structure during garbage
collection, so this commit allocates it along with the allocation of
the corresponding stack. However, we can't do a regular allocation in
newstack because mallocgc may itself grow the stack (which would lead
to a recursive allocation). Hence, this commit makes the bookkeeping
structure part of the stack allocation itself by stealing the
necessary space from the top of the stack allocation. Since the size
of this bookkeeping structure is logarithmic in the size of the stack,
this has minimal impact on stack behavior.
Change-Id: Ia14408be06aafa9ca4867f4e70bddb3fe0e96665
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10313
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Currently we truncate gctrace clock and CPU times to millisecond
precision. As a result, many phases are typically printed as 0, which
is fine for user consumption, but makes gathering statistics and
reports over GC traces difficult.
In 1.4, the gctrace line printed times in microseconds. This was
better for statistics, but not as easy for users to read or interpret,
and it generally made the trace lines longer.
This change strikes a balance between these extremes by printing
milliseconds, but including the decimal part to two significant
figures down to microsecond precision. This remains easy to read and
interpret, but includes more precision when it's useful.
For example, where the code currently prints,
gc #29 @1.629s 0%: 0+2+0+12+0 ms clock, 0+2+0+0/12/0+0 ms cpu, 4->4->2 MB, 4 MB goal, 1 P
this prints,
gc #29 @1.629s 0%: 0.005+2.1+0+12+0.29 ms clock, 0.005+2.1+0+0/12/0+0.29 ms cpu, 4->4->2 MB, 4 MB goal, 1 P
Fixes#10970.
Change-Id: I249624779433927cd8b0947b986df9060c289075
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10554
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
runtime.GC() is intentionally very weakly specified. However, it is so
weakly specified that it's difficult to know that it's being used
correctly for its one intended use case: to ensure garbage collection
has run in a test that is garbage-sensitive. In particular, it is
unclear whether it is synchronous or asynchronous. In the old STW
collector this was essentially self-evident; short of queuing up a
garbage collection to run later, it had to be synchronous. However,
with the concurrent collector, there's evidence that people are
inferring that it may be asynchronous (e.g., issue #10986), as this is
both unclear in the documentation and possible in the implementation.
In fact, runtime.GC() runs a fully synchronous STW collection. We
probably don't want to commit to this exact behavior. But we can
commit to the essential property that tests rely on: that runtime.GC()
does not return until the GC has finished.
Change-Id: Ifc3045a505e1898ecdbe32c1f7e80e2e9ffacb5b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10488
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
