RFR [L][4/7]: 8180415: Rebuild remembered sets during the concurrent cycle (original) (raw)

Thomas Schatzl thomas.schatzl at oracle.com
Mon Mar 5 15:07:58 UTC 2018

Hi all,

can I have reviews for this change that implements the bulk of the "rebuild remembered sets concurrently" mechanism?

This change modifies the management of remembered sets so that those are only maintained when they are useful. This roughly means:

(The latter two decisions may not be optimal, but the idea was to strictly only maintain remembered sets for regions we are going to try to evacuate soon)

G1MixedGCLiveThresholdPercent)

(Please see the new G1RemSetTrackingPolicy implementation for exact details)

During the following "Rebuild Remembered Set" phase, that replaces the "Create Live Data" phase, all non-young regions that may contain outgoing pointers (i.e. excluding closed archive regions), G1 scans the live objects in the regions between bottom and TARS ("top_at_rebuild_start" - yes, that's new :) for inter-region references and add them to the appropriate remembered set.

The TARS, as the name indicates, is the top-value at the start of remark, and the regions contain live data between this value and bottom that needs to be scanned during this rebuild phase.

The reason for a new indicator is that nTAMS is not sufficient: during marking there might have been more allocations in the old gen that also need to be scanned for new references.

All references above TARS (and below the region's top) will be handled by the existing barrier mechanism.

After rebuild, during the Cleanup pause, we create the new (candidate) collection set, eventually filtering out more regions, like humongous ones that exceed the eager reclaim criteria.

The current state of the remembered set for a given region is tracked within the remembered set for that region (HeapRegionRememberedSet class): a remembered set can be either Untracked, Updating or Complete. Untracked means that we do not manage a remembered set for this region, Complete means just that, and Updating means that we are currently in the process of updating the remembered set. This distinction is relevant for evacuation, e.g. we obviously must not evacuate not- Complete remembered sets.

Note that this change contains one single temporary ugly hack that allows G1 to work until the next change :) - so in this change G1 determines whether there will be a mixed gc phase during the Cleanup pause. It needs to determine this information at that time, instead of previously during concurrent cleanup, to, if there is no mixed gc coming, drop all remembered sets to not maintain them further.

For this reason, and to avoid duplicate recalculation that may yield different results after dropping remembered sets, there is a new flag mixed_gc_pending in CollectorState, making it even more complicated. That one is going away in the next change, promised. :)

Some imho useful messages about remembered set tracking are printed using "gc, remset, tracking" log tags, both in debug and trace level.

CR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180415 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8180415/webrev/index.html Testing: hs-tier 1-5, etc. etc.

Thanks, Thomas

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