Hi Erik,
On 08/28/2014 11:34 PM, Erik Helin wrote:
(it seems like we lost hotspot-gc-...@openjdk.java.net somewhere in
this thread, I'm adding it back)
On 2014-08-28 23:15, Staffan Friberg wrote:
Hi Erik,
Thanks for the comments.
- Aren't the events for promotion to the tenured generation (SerialOld)
and the CMS generation missing?
The reason for leaving out these two, Serial completely and CMS
promotion, was due to that neither as far as I understand make use of
PLABs.
I might be wrong here, but looking at the function
TenuredGeneration::par_promote (in tenuredGeneration.cpp) it looks to
me like SerialOld is using PLABs when ParNew is promoting objects from
young to old.
As for CMS, looking at ConcurrentMarkSweepGeneration::par_promote (in
concurrentMarkSweepGeneration.cpp) it seems like each
CMSParGCThreadState has a CFLS_LAB (CompactibleFreeListSpace Local
Allocation Buffer) that is a thread-local allocation buffer. See
compactibleFreeListSpace.{hpp,cpp} for more details.
Given this, I think we should add events for Serial and CMS as well.
Ok I see what you mean with CMS, basically the equivalent to getting a
PLAB would be when we refill the CFLS_LAB in the alloc function. It
still does the allocation to a small memory (~ size of object) area from
the freelist, but at least we did extra work to refill the local
CFLS_LAB. Need to do some analysis to see how often we refill so the
overhead doesn't get too high.
The only issue I run into is how I can in a nice way get access to the
ParNewTracer from ParNewGeneration to call the report function. Let's
sync up next week and see how it can be solved.
The tenured GC requires something similar to be supported, however since
ParNewGC is deprecated for usage without CMS in JDK 8 we might want to
skip that combination.
On 2014-08-28 23:15, Staffan Friberg wrote:
- Would it make sense to differentiate, either by separate events or by
a field in a event, between promotions to to-space and to the old
generation?
- The are two events for TLAB allocations,
java/object_alloc_in_new_TLAB and java/object_alloc_outside_TLAB.
What do you think about using two events for PLAB allocations as
well:
- java/object_alloc_in_new_PLAB
- java/object_alloc_outside_PLAB
I think this is a matter of taste and probably how similar we want the
event to be to the existing allocation event. I personally prefer a
single event but if the GC team and serviceability team feel it would be
better to have two I can certainly rewrite. The reason for me preferring
a single event is just ease of analysis, you can easily filter a list of
events on a field, it is harder to merge two different events with
different fields and work with them in an straight forward fashion.
Any general preference for having a single or multiple events?
I would prefer to have two events in this case and try to follow the
existing allocation events as much as possible (both in naming and in
style). Keeping the tenured field (I missed it the first time I read
the patch) is good.
Yes, tenured would be independent of having two events, only PLAB size
and directAllocation would be affected when having two event types.
*Erik Gahlin*, any preference from your end?
On 2014-08-28 23:15, Staffan Friberg wrote:
- In PSPromotionManager, instead of utilizing the C++ friendship with
PSScavenge, should we add a getter function for the gc_tracer?
Created a getter function.
Thanks! If you make report_promotion_sample const, then the getter can
return a const ParallelScavengeTracer*, right?
Done
//Staffan
