Make Recycler faster on OpenJ9 #13357
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franz1981
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Previously we were getting these numbers from With this PR we're getting these numbers: So OpenJ9 improves a lot, but OpenJDK regresses. |
Motivation: To avoid reference processing overhead while at the same time ensuring that we clear Recycler data structures that were used by now-terminated threads, we need to check if the LocalPool owner thread has terminated. We used to do this by calling `Thread.getState`, but this turns out to be quite expensive on OpenJ9, because they need to halt the target thread before its state can be safely inspected. See the `haltThreadForInspection` call in [`Java_java_lang_Thread_getStateImpl`](https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/blob/55b9267740559406b8471000cd3a3b6f681dc095/runtime/jcl/common/thread.cpp#L76-L102). This turns out to be a scalability bottleneck in some deployments. Modification: We can get the same semantics as `Thread.getState() == Thread.State.TERMINATED` by checking `!Thread.isAlive()`. The `isAlive` call is cheap on both [OpenJ9](https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/blob/03967d8cc24dc1f60168110c9d207d2dff57765a/jcl/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Thread.java#L756-L761) and [OpenJDK](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Thread.java#L1798-L1815). Result: We no longer see the scalability bottleneck observed in netty#13347 (comment)
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We can get the best of both by checking if we're on OpenJ9: |
I don't see any other calls to |
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I am surprised that we have regressed on Jdk, it doesn't seem anything but a load there - you checked on x86? |
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I only checked on aarch |
What hardware? Such a heavy impact for a volatile read is odd. |
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@theRealAph M1 Pro, macOS |
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@chrisvest @theRealAph https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk8u/blob/9a751dc19fae78ce58fb0eb176522070c992fb6f/jdk/src/share/classes/java/lang/Thread.java#L1003 That's why! Ah what an horror story weekend 🥶 |
Ah, it's going through a java<->native transition. So, a slowdown makes sense. |
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Co-authored-by: Trustin Lee <t@motd.kr>
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@chrisvest thanks a lot! |
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Motivation: To avoid reference processing overhead while at the same time ensuring that we clear Recycler data structures that were used by now-terminated threads, we need to check if the LocalPool owner thread has terminated. We used to do this by calling `Thread.getState`, but this turns out to be quite expensive on OpenJ9, because they need to halt the target thread before its state can be safely inspected. See the `haltThreadForInspection` call in [`Java_java_lang_Thread_getStateImpl`](https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/blob/55b9267740559406b8471000cd3a3b6f681dc095/runtime/jcl/common/thread.cpp#L76-L102). This turns out to be a scalability bottleneck in some deployments. Modification: We can get the same semantics as `Thread.getState() == Thread.State.TERMINATED` by checking `!Thread.isAlive()`. The `isAlive` call is cheap on both [OpenJ9](https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/blob/03967d8cc24dc1f60168110c9d207d2dff57765a/jcl/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Thread.java#L756-L761) and [OpenJDK](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Thread.java#L1798-L1815). Result: We no longer see the scalability bottleneck observed in #13347 (comment) Co-authored-by: Trustin Lee <t@motd.kr>
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Motivation:
To avoid reference processing overhead while at the same time ensuring that we clear Recycler data structures that were used by now-terminated threads, we need to check if the LocalPool owner thread has terminated.
We used to do this by calling
Thread.getState, but this turns out to be quite expensive on OpenJ9, because they need to halt the target thread before its state can be safely inspected. See thehaltThreadForInspectioncall inJava_java_lang_Thread_getStateImpl.This turns out to be a scalability bottleneck in some deployments.
Modification:
We can get the same semantics as
Thread.getState() == Thread.State.TERMINATEDby checking!Thread.isAlive().The
isAlivecall is cheap on both OpenJ9 and OpenJDK.Result:
We no longer see the scalability bottleneck observed in #13347 (comment)