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    runtime: don't rescan globals · b49b71ae
    Austin Clements authored
    Currently the runtime rescans globals during mark 2 and mark
    termination. This costs as much as 500µs/MB in STW time, which is
    enough to surpass the 10ms STW limit with only 20MB of globals.
    
    It's also basically unnecessary. The compiler already generates write
    barriers for global -> heap pointer updates and the regular write
    barrier doesn't check whether the slot is a global or in the heap.
    Some less common write barriers do cause problems.
    heapBitsBulkBarrier, which is used by typedmemmove and related
    functions, currently depends on having access to the pointer bitmap
    and as a result ignores writes to globals. Likewise, the
    reflect-related write barriers reflect_typedmemmovepartial and
    callwritebarrier ignore non-heap destinations; though it appears they
    can never be called with global pointers anyway.
    
    This commit makes heapBitsBulkBarrier issue write barriers for writes
    to global pointers using the data and BSS pointer bitmaps, removes the
    inheap checks from the reflection write barriers, and eliminates the
    rescans during mark 2 and mark termination. It also adds a test that
    writes to globals have write barriers.
    
    Programs with large data+BSS segments (with pointers) aren't common,
    but for programs that do have large data+BSS segments, this
    significantly reduces pause time:
    
    name \ 95%ile-time/markTerm              old         new  delta
    LargeBSS/bss:1GB/gomaxprocs:4  148200µs ± 6%  302µs ±52%  -99.80% (p=0.008 n=5+5)
    
    This very slightly improves the go1 benchmarks:
    
    name                      old time/op    new time/op    delta
    BinaryTree17-12              2.62s ± 3%     2.62s ± 4%    ~     (p=0.904 n=20+20)
    Fannkuch11-12                2.15s ± 1%     2.13s ± 0%  -1.29%  (p=0.000 n=18+20)
    FmtFprintfEmpty-12          48.3ns ± 2%    47.6ns ± 1%  -1.52%  (p=0.000 n=20+16)
    FmtFprintfString-12          152ns ± 0%     152ns ± 1%    ~     (p=0.725 n=18+18)
    FmtFprintfInt-12             150ns ± 1%     149ns ± 1%  -1.14%  (p=0.000 n=19+20)
    FmtFprintfIntInt-12          250ns ± 0%     244ns ± 1%  -2.12%  (p=0.000 n=20+18)
    FmtFprintfPrefixedInt-12     219ns ± 1%     217ns ± 1%  -1.20%  (p=0.000 n=19+20)
    FmtFprintfFloat-12           280ns ± 0%     281ns ± 1%  +0.47%  (p=0.000 n=19+19)
    FmtManyArgs-12               928ns ± 0%     923ns ± 1%  -0.53%  (p=0.000 n=19+18)
    GobDecode-12                7.21ms ± 1%    7.24ms ± 2%    ~     (p=0.091 n=19+19)
    GobEncode-12                6.07ms ± 1%    6.05ms ± 1%  -0.36%  (p=0.002 n=20+17)
    Gzip-12                      265ms ± 1%     265ms ± 1%    ~     (p=0.496 n=20+19)
    Gunzip-12                   39.6ms ± 1%    39.3ms ± 1%  -0.85%  (p=0.000 n=19+19)
    HTTPClientServer-12         74.0µs ± 2%    73.8µs ± 1%    ~     (p=0.569 n=20+19)
    JSONEncode-12               15.4ms ± 1%    15.3ms ± 1%  -0.25%  (p=0.049 n=17+17)
    JSONDecode-12               53.7ms ± 2%    53.0ms ± 1%  -1.29%  (p=0.000 n=18+17)
    Mandelbrot200-12            3.97ms ± 1%    3.97ms ± 0%    ~     (p=0.072 n=17+18)
    GoParse-12                  3.35ms ± 2%    3.36ms ± 1%  +0.51%  (p=0.005 n=18+20)
    RegexpMatchEasy0_32-12      72.7ns ± 2%    72.2ns ± 1%  -0.70%  (p=0.005 n=19+19)
    RegexpMatchEasy0_1K-12       246ns ± 1%     245ns ± 0%  -0.60%  (p=0.000 n=18+16)
    RegexpMatchEasy1_32-12      72.8ns ± 1%    72.5ns ± 1%  -0.37%  (p=0.011 n=18+18)
    RegexpMatchEasy1_1K-12       380ns ± 1%     385ns ± 1%  +1.34%  (p=0.000 n=20+19)
    RegexpMatchMedium_32-12      115ns ± 2%     115ns ± 1%  +0.44%  (p=0.047 n=20+20)
    RegexpMatchMedium_1K-12     35.4µs ± 1%    35.5µs ± 1%    ~     (p=0.079 n=18+19)
    RegexpMatchHard_32-12       1.83µs ± 0%    1.80µs ± 1%  -1.76%  (p=0.000 n=18+18)
    RegexpMatchHard_1K-12       55.1µs ± 0%    54.3µs ± 1%  -1.42%  (p=0.000 n=18+19)
    Revcomp-12                   386ms ± 1%     381ms ± 1%  -1.14%  (p=0.000 n=18+18)
    Template-12                 61.5ms ± 2%    61.5ms ± 2%    ~     (p=0.647 n=19+20)
    TimeParse-12                 338ns ± 0%     336ns ± 1%  -0.72%  (p=0.000 n=14+19)
    TimeFormat-12                350ns ± 0%     357ns ± 0%  +2.05%  (p=0.000 n=19+18)
    [Geo mean]                  55.3µs         55.0µs       -0.41%
    
    Change-Id: I57e8720385a1b991aeebd111b6874354308e2a6b
    Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/20829
    Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
    b49b71ae
writebarrier.go 4.08 KB