The previous free list implementation, which embedded singly linked
lists in available regions, had the unfortunate side effect of causing
many cache misses during thread cache fills. Fix this in two places:
- arena_run_t: Use a new bitmap implementation to track which regions
are available. Furthermore, revert to preferring the
lowest available region (as jemalloc did with its old
bitmap-based approach).
- tcache_t: Move read-only tcache_bin_t metadata into
tcache_bin_info_t, and add a contiguous array of pointers
to tcache_t in order to track cached objects. This
substantially increases the size of tcache_t, but results
in much higher data locality for common tcache operations.
As a side benefit, it is again possible to efficiently
flush the least recently used cached objects, so this
change changes flushing from MRU to LRU.
The new bitmap implementation uses a multi-level summary approach to
make finding the lowest available region very fast. In practice,
bitmaps only have one or two levels, though the implementation is
general enough to handle extremely large bitmaps, mainly so that large
page sizes can still be entertained.
Fix tcache_bin_flush_large() to always flush statistics, in the same way
that tcache_bin_flush_small() was recently fixed.
Use JEMALLOC_DEBUG rather than NDEBUG.
Add dassert(), and use it for debug-only asserts.
When a thread cache flushes objects to their arenas due to an abundance
of cached objects, it merges the allocation request count for the
associated size class, and increments a flush counter. If none of the
flushed objects came from the thread's assigned arena, then the merging
wouldn't happen (though the counter would typically eventually be
merged), nor would the flush counter be incremented (a hard bug). Fix
this via extra conditional code just after the flush loop.
Replace the single-character run-time flags with key/value pairs, which
can be set via the malloc_conf global, /etc/malloc.conf, and the
MALLOC_CONF environment variable.
Replace the JEMALLOC_PROF_PREFIX environment variable with the
"opt.prof_prefix" option.
Replace umax2s() with u2s().
Base dynamic structure size on offsetof(), rather than subtracting the
size of the dynamic structure member. Results could differ on systems
with strict data structure alignment requirements.
Add allocm(), rallocm(), sallocm(), and dallocm(), which are a
functional superset of malloc(), calloc(), posix_memalign(),
malloc_usable_size(), and free().
Properly maintain tcache_bin_t's avail pointer such that it is NULL if
no objects are cached. This only caused problems during thread cache
destruction, since cache flushing otherwise never occurs on an empty
bin.
Remove medium size classes, because concurrent dirty page purging is
no longer capable of purging inactive dirty pages inside active runs
(due to recent arena/bin locking changes).
Enhance tcache to support caching large objects, so that the same range
of size classes is still cached, despite the removal of medium size
class support.
Initialize small run header before dropping arena->lock,
arena_chunk_purge() relies on valid small run headers during run
iteration.
Add some assertions.
For bin-related allocation, protect data structures with bin locks
rather than arena locks. Arena locks remain for run
allocation/deallocation and other miscellaneous operations.
Restructure statistics counters to maintain per bin
allocated/nmalloc/ndalloc, but continue to provide arena-wide statistics
via aggregation in the ctl code.
Use chains of cached objects, rather than using arrays of pointers.
Since tcache_bin_t is no longer dynamically sized, convert tcache_t's
tbin to an array of structures, rather than an array of pointers. This
implicitly removes tcache_bin_{create,destroy}(), which further
simplifies the fast path for malloc/free.
Use cacheline alignment for tcache_t allocations.
Remove runtime configuration option for number of tcache bin slots, and
replace it with a boolean option for enabling/disabling tcache.
Limit the number of tcache objects to the lesser of TCACHE_NSLOTS_MAX
and 2X the number of regions per run for the size class.
For GC-triggered flush, discard 3/4 of the objects below the low water
mark, rather than 1/2.
