This feature uses an dedicated arena to handle huge requests, which
significantly improves VM fragmentation. In production workload we tested it
often reduces VM size by >30%.
For low arena count settings, the huge threshold feature may trigger an unwanted
bg thd creation. Given that the huge arena does eager purging by default,
bypass bg thd creation when initializing the huge arena.
When custom extent_hooks or transparent huge pages are in use, the purging
semantics may change, which means we may not get zeroed pages on repopulating.
Fixing the issue by manually memset for such cases.
This makes it possible to have multiple set of bins in an arena, which improves
arena scalability because the bins (especially the small ones) are always the
limiting factor in production workload.
A bin shard is picked on allocation; each extent tracks the bin shard id for
deallocation. The shard size will be determined using runtime options.
If there are 3 or more threads spin-waiting on the same mutex,
there will be excessive exclusive cacheline contention because
pthread_trylock() immediately tries to CAS in a new value, instead
of first checking if the lock is locked.
This diff adds a 'locked' hint flag, and we will only spin wait
without trylock()ing while set. I don't know of any other portable
way to get the same behavior as pthread_mutex_lock().
This is pretty easy to test via ttest, e.g.
./ttest1 500 3 10000 1 100
Throughput is nearly 3x as fast.
This blames to the mutex profiling changes, however, we almost never
have 3 or more threads contending in properly configured production
workloads, but still worth fixing.
Refactor tcache_fill, introducing a new function arena_slab_reg_alloc_batch,
which will fill multiple pointers from a slab.
There should be no functional changes here, but allows future optimization
on reg_alloc_batch.
Add unsized and sized deallocation fastpaths. Similar to the malloc()
fastpath, this removes all frame manipulation for the majority of
free() calls. The performance advantages here are less than that
of the malloc() fastpath, but from prod tests seems to still be half
a percent or so of improvement.
Stats and sampling a both supported (sdallocx needs a sampling check,
for rtree lookups slab will only be set for unsampled objects).
We don't support flush, any flush requests go to the slowpath.
We eagerly coalesce large buffers when deallocating, however the previous logic
around this introduced extra lock overhead -- when coalescing we always lock the
neighbors even if they are active, while for active extents nothing can be done.
This commit checks if the neighbor extents are potentially active before
locking, and avoids locking if possible. This speeds up large_dalloc by ~20%.
It also fixes some undesired behavior: we could stop coalescing because a small
buffer was merged, while a large neighbor was ignored on the other side.
When retain is enabled, the default dalloc hook does nothing (since we avoid
munmap). But the overhead preparing the call is high, specifically the extent
de-register and re-register involve locking and extent / rtree modifications.
Bypass the call with retain in this diff.
This diff adds a fastpath that assumes size <= SC_LOOKUP_MAXCLASS, and
that we hit tcache. If either of these is false, we fall back to
the previous codepath (renamed 'malloc_default').
Crucially, we only tail call malloc_default, and with the same kind
and number of arguments, so that both clang and gcc tail-calling
will kick in - therefore malloc() gets treated as a leaf function,
and there are *no* caller-saved registers. Previously malloc() contained
5 caller saved registers on x64, resulting in at least 10 extra
memory-movement instructions.
In microbenchmarks this results in up to ~10% improvement in malloc()
fastpath. In real programs, this is a ~1% CPU and latency improvement
overall.
The experimental `smallocx` API is not exposed via header files,
requiring the users to peek at `jemalloc`'s source code to manually
add the external declarations to their own programs.
This should reinforce that `smallocx` is experimental, and that `jemalloc`
does not offer any kind of backwards compatiblity or ABI gurantees for it.
---
Motivation:
This new experimental memory-allocaction API returns a pointer to
the allocation as well as the usable size of the allocated memory
region.
The `s` in `smallocx` stands for `sized`-`mallocx`, attempting to
convey that this API returns the size of the allocated memory region.
It should allow C++ P0901r0 [0] and Rust Alloc::alloc_excess to make
use of it.
The main purpose of these APIs is to improve telemetry. It is more accurate
to register `smallocx(size, flags)` than `smallocx(nallocx(size), flags)`,
for example. The latter will always line up perfectly with the existing
size classes, causing a loss of telemetry information about the internal
fragmentation induced by potentially poor size-classes choices.
Instrumenting `nallocx` does not help much since user code can cache its
result and use it repeatedly.
---
Implementation:
The implementation adds a new `usize` option to `static_opts_s` and an `usize`
variable to `dynamic_opts_s`. These are then used to cache the result of
`sz_index2size` and similar functions in the code paths in which they are
unconditionally invoked. In the code-paths in which these functions are not
unconditionally invoked, `smallocx` calls, as opposed to `mallocx`, these
functions explicitly.
---
[0]: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0901r0.html
generation of sub bytes_until_sample, usize; je; for x86 arch.
Subtraction is unconditional, and only flags are checked for the jump,
no extra compare is necessary. This also reduces register pressure.
If we assume SC_LARGE_MAXCLASS will always fit in a SSIZE_T, then we can
optimize some checks by unconditional subtraction, and then checking flags
only, without a compare statement in x86.
in case `malloc_read_fd` returns a negative error number, the result
would afterwards be casted to an unsigned size_t, and may have
theoretically caused an out-of-bounds memory access in the following
`strncmp` call.
This makes it directly use MAP_EXCL and MAP_ALIGNED() instead
of weird workarounds involving mapping at random places and then
unmapping parts of them.
- Make API more clear for using as standalone json emitter
- Support cases that weren't possible before, e.g.
- emitting primitive values in an array
- emitting nested arrays
In case of multithreaded fork, we want to leave the child in a reasonable state,
in which tsd_nominal_tsds is either empty or contains only the forking thread.
The global data is mostly only used at initialization, or for easy access to
values we could compute statically. Instead of consuming that space (and
risking TLB misses), we can just pass around a pointer to stack data during
bootstrapping.
The largest small class, smallest large class, and largest large class may all
be needed down fast paths; to avoid the risk of touching another cache line, we
can make them available as constants.
I.e., parse before booting the bin module or sz module. This lets us tweak size
class settings before committing to them by letting them leak into other
modules.
This commit does not actually do any tweaking of the size classes; it *just*
chanchanges bootstrapping order; this may help bisecting any bootstrapping
failures on poorly-tested architectures.
This is the last big step in making size classes a runtime computation rather
than a configure-time one.
The compile-time computation has been left in, for now, to allow assertion
checking that the results are identical.
This class removes almost all the dependencies on size_classes.h, accessing the
data there only via the new module sc.h, which does not depend on any
configuration options.
In a subsequent commit, we'll remove the configure-time size class computations,
doing them at boot time, instead.
Before this commit jemalloc produced many warnings when compiled with -Wextra
with both Clang and GCC. This commit fixes the issues raised by these warnings
or suppresses them if they were spurious at least for the Clang and GCC
versions covered by CI.
This commit:
* adds `JEMALLOC_DIAGNOSTIC` macros: `JEMALLOC_DIAGNOSTIC_{PUSH,POP}` are
used to modify the stack of enabled diagnostics. The
`JEMALLOC_DIAGNOSTIC_IGNORE_...` macros are used to ignore a concrete
diagnostic.
* adds `JEMALLOC_FALLTHROUGH` macro to explicitly state that falling
through `case` labels in a `switch` statement is intended
* Removes all UNUSED annotations on function parameters. The warning
-Wunused-parameter is now disabled globally in
`jemalloc_internal_macros.h` for all translation units that include
that header. It is never re-enabled since that header cannot be
included by users.
* locally suppresses some -Wextra diagnostics:
* `-Wmissing-field-initializer` is buggy in older Clang and GCC versions,
where it does not understanding that, in C, `= {0}` is a common C idiom
to initialize a struct to zero
* `-Wtype-bounds` is suppressed in a particular situation where a generic
macro, used in multiple different places, compares an unsigned integer for
smaller than zero, which is always true.
* `-Walloc-larger-than-size=` diagnostics warn when an allocation function is
called with a size that is too large (out-of-range). These are suppressed in
the parts of the tests where `jemalloc` explicitly does this to test that the
allocation functions fail properly.
* adds a new CI build bot that runs the log unit test on CI.
Closes#1196 .
The feature allows using a dedicated arena for huge allocations. We want the
addtional arena to separate huge allocation because: 1) mixing small extents
with huge ones causes fragmentation over the long run (this feature reduces VM
size significantly); 2) with many arenas, huge extents rarely get reused across
threads; and 3) huge allocations happen way less frequently, therefore no
concerns for lock contention.
Previously, we made the user deal with this themselves, but that's not good
enough; if hooks may allocate, we should test the allocation pathways down
hooks. If we're doing that, we might as well actually implement the protection
for the user.
The hook module allows a low-reader-overhead way of finding hooks to invoke and
calling them.
For now, none of the allocation pathways are tied into the hooks; this will come
later.
"Hooks" is really the best name for the module that will contain the publicly
exposed hooks. So lets rename the current "hooks" module (that hook external
dependencies, for reentrancy testing) to "test_hooks".
When configured with --with-lg-page, it's possible for the configured page size
to be greater than the system page size, in which case the page address may only
be aligned with the system page size.
Previously, we would leak the extent and memory associated with a salvageable
portion of an extent that we were trying to split in three, in the case where
the first split attempt succeeded and the second failed.
Looking at the thread counts in our services, jemalloc's background thread
is useful, but mostly idle. Add a config option to tune down the number of threads.
preserve_lru feature adds lots of complication, for little value.
Removing it means merged extents are re-added to the lru list, and may
take longer to madvise away than they otherwise would.
Canaries after removal seem flat for several services (no change).
"always" marks all user mappings as MADV_HUGEPAGE; while "never" marks all
mappings as MADV_NOHUGEPAGE. The default setting "default" does not change any
settings. Note that all the madvise calls are part of the default extent hooks
by design, so that customized extent hooks have complete control over the
mappings including hugepage settings.
We have a buffer overrun that manifests in the case where arena indices higher
than the number of CPUs are accessed before arena indices lower than the number
of CPUs. This fixes the bug and adds a test.
On glibc and Android's bionic, strerror_r returns char* when
_GNU_SOURCE is defined.
Add a configure check for this rather than assume glibc is the
only libc that behaves this way.
We compute the max size required to satisfy an alignment. However this can be
quite pessimistic, especially with frequent reuse (and combined with state-based
fragmentation). This commit adds one more fit step specific to aligned
allocations, searching in all potential fit size classes.
The arena-associated stats are now all prefixed with arena_stats_, and live in
their own file. Likewise, malloc_bin_stats_t -> bin_stats_t, also in its own
file.
When purging, large allocations are usually the ones that cross the npages_limit
threshold, simply because they are "large". This means we often leave the large
extent around for a while, which has the downsides of: 1) high RSS and 2) more
chance of them getting fragmented. Given that they are not likely to be reused
very soon (LRU), let's over purge by 1 extent (which is often large and not
reused frequently).
Coalescing is a small price to pay for large allocations since they happen less
frequently. This reduces fragmentation while also potentially improving
locality.
When allocating from dirty extents (which we always prefer if available), large
active extents can get split even if the new allocation is much smaller, in
which case the introduced fragmentation causes high long term damage. This new
option controls the threshold to reuse and split an existing active extent. We
avoid using a large extent for much smaller sizes, in order to reduce
fragmentation. In some workload, adding the threshold improves virtual memory
usage by >10x.
While working on #852, I noticed the prng state is atomic. This is the only
atomic use of prng in all of jemalloc. Instead, use a threadlocal prng
state if possible to avoid unnecessary cache line contention.
Added an upper bound on how many pages we can decay during the current run.
Without this, decay could have unbounded increase in stashed, since other
threads could add new pages into the extents.
This option controls the max size when grow_retained. This is useful when we
have customized extent hooks reserving physical memory (e.g. 1G huge pages).
Without this feature, the default increasing sequence could result in fragmented
and wasted physical memory.
This attempts to use VM_OVERCOMMIT OID - newly introduced in -CURRENT
few days ago, specifically for this purpose - instead of querying the
sysctl by its string name. Due to how syctlbyname(3) works, this means
we do one syscall during binary startup instead of two.
Signed-off-by: Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>
This avoids sysctl(2) syscall during binary startup, using the value
passed in the ELF aux vector instead.
Signed-off-by: Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>
We observed that arena 0 can have much more metadata allocated comparing to
other arenas. Tune the auto mode to only switch to huge page on the 5th block
(instead of 3 previously) for a0.
Before this commit, extent_recycle_split intermingles the splitting of an extent
and the return of parts of that extent to a given extents_t. After it, that
logic is separated. This will enable splitting extents that don't live in any
extents_t (as the grow retained region soon will).
On x86 Linux, we define our own MADV_FREE if madvise(2) is available, but no
MADV_FREE is detected. This allows the feature to be built in and enabled with
runtime detection.
Since we allocate rtree nodes from a0's base, it's pushed to over 1 block on
initialization right away, which makes the auto thp mode less effective on a0.
We change a0 to make the switch on the 3rd block instead.
Quoting from https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/issues/761 :
[...] reading the Power ISA documentation[1], the assembly in [the CPU_SPINWAIT
macro] isn't correct anyway (as @marxin points out): the setting of the
program-priority register is "sticky", and we never undo the lowering.
We could do something similar, but given that we don't have testing here in the
first place, I'm inclined to simply not try. I'll put something up reverting the
problematic commit tomorrow.
[1] Book II, chapter 3 of the 2.07B or 3.0B ISA documents.
There does not seem to be any overlap between usage of
extent_avail and extent_heap, so we can use the same hook.
The only remaining usage of rb trees is in the profiling code,
which has some 'interesting' iteration constraints.
Fixes#888
It's possible to build with lazy purge enabled but depoly to systems without
such support. In this case, rely on the boot time detection instead of keep
making unnecessary madvise calls (which all returns EINVAL).
If we guarantee no malloc activity in extent hooks, it's possible to make
customized hooks working on arena 0. Remove the non-a0 assertion to enable such
use cases.
To avoid the high RSS caused by THP + low usage arena (i.e. THP becomes a
significant percentage), added a new "auto" option which will only start using
THP after a base allocator used up the first THP region. Starting from the
second hugepage (in a single arena), "auto" behaves the same as "always",
i.e. madvise hugepage right away.
This eliminates the need for the arena stats code to "know" about tcaches; all
that it needs is a cache_bin_array_descriptor_t to tell it where to find
cache_bins whose stats it should aggregate.
This is the first step towards breaking up the tcache and arena (since they
interact primarily at the bin level). It should also make a future arena
caching implementation more straightforward.
As part of the metadata_thp support, We now have a separate swtich
(JEMALLOC_HAVE_MADVISE_HUGE) for MADV_HUGEPAGE availability. Use that instead
of JEMALLOC_THP (which doesn't guard pages_huge anymore) in tests.
The external linkage for spin_adaptive was not used, and the inline
declaration of spin_adaptive that was used caused a probem on FreeBSD
where CPU_SPINWAIT is implemented as a call to a static procedure for
x86 architectures.
If ptr is not page aligned, we know the allocation was not sampled. In this case
use the size passed into sdallocx directly w/o accessing rtree. This improve
sdallocx efficiency in the common case (not sampled && small allocation).
When retain is enabled, we should not attempt mmap for in-place expansion
(large_ralloc_no_move), because it's virtually impossible to succeed, and causes
unnecessary syscalls (which can cause lock contention under load).
Currently we have to log by writing something like:
static log_var_t log_a_b_c = LOG_VAR_INIT("a.b.c");
log (log_a_b_c, "msg");
This is sort of annoying. Let's just write:
log("a.b.c", "msg");
Currently, the log macro requires at least one argument after the format string,
because of the way the preprocessor handles varargs macros. We can hide some of
that irritation by pushing the extra arguments into a varargs function.
Older Linux systems don't have O_CLOEXEC. If that's the case, we fcntl
immediately after open, to minimize the length of the racy period in
which an
operation in another thread can leak a file descriptor to a child.
On OS X, we rely on the zone machinery to call our prefork and postfork
handlers.
In zone_force_unlock, we call jemalloc_postfork_child, reinitializing all our
mutexes regardless of state, since the mutex implementation will assert if the
tid of the unlocker is different from that of the locker. This has the effect
of unlocking the mutexes, but also fails to wake any threads waiting on them in
the parent.
To fix this, we track whether or not we're the parent or child after the fork,
and unlock or reinit as appropriate.
This resolves#895.
