perf(gc): pre-size the per-minor dirty-scan covered set instead of rebuilding it from empty - #9835
perf(gc): pre-size the per-minor dirty-scan covered set instead of rebuilding it from empty#9835proggeramlug wants to merge 5 commits into
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`gc_check_trigger` runs on every `gc_malloc`, and `gc_budgeted_due_trigger` resolved eleven raw `thread_local!` declarations one `_tlv_get_addr` call at a time. Measured with `sample` on the compiled claude-code TUI streaming a 3300-char reply (14,578 active main-thread samples, callers resolved by an explicit ancestor walk): `_tlv_get_addr` was 380 main-thread leaf samples, 71 of them with `gc_budgeted_due_trigger` as the immediate caller, 36 in `old_page_account_dirty_slots`, 31 in `scan_dirty_object_slots`, 27 in `gc_malloc_header_is_tracked`. Sixty-seven declarations move to `crate::perry_thread_local!`. Why they were still cold is a measurement bug in the gate, not an oversight: `scripts/check_thread_locals.py` ratchets on raw `thread_local!` BLOCKS per file, and a block holds any number of declarations — so `gc/policy.rs` counted as 6 while declaring 28, and adding a `static` to a recorded block passed silently. In the same unit as the hot side, main was 318 hot against 339 cold declarations. The gate now ratchets on declarations (385/272) and `--self-test` gained the direction that catches it. `ARENA_TOTAL_BYTES`, `BLOCK_POOL` and `BLOCK_POOL_BYTES` stay raw and say so: they are read from `Arena::new`, which runs as `tls_hot::fill`'s first provider, so a `HotKey` there re-enters `fill` — which has not yet written the `temp_roots` field it gates on — and re-runs `ARENA`'s initializer without bound. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014UZWia6L37DpA93VLtNK9m
Rebuilt from empty on every minor and reaching ~1,000 entries, it walked hashbrown's growth ladder and paid a RawTable::reserve_rehash at each power-of-two boundary: 217 leaf samples in reserve_rehash on a 3300-char claude-code reply (1.5% of the turn), 111 under PtrHashSet::insert and the rest under run_copied_minor_attempt and restore_surviving_dirty_coverage. Same treatment and same justification as PREVIOUS_SURVIVOR_ESTIMATE next to it: the count is strongly autocorrelated between adjacent cycles, over-estimating costs only untouched reserved bytes, under-estimating falls back to ordinary growth, and the estimate is capped so one huge cycle cannot make every later one reserve unboundedly. [gc-dirty-covered] reports len/capacity/presized_to per minor so the mechanism is counted rather than assumed. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014UZWia6L37DpA93VLtNK9m
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change migrates selected GC thread-local declarations to hot TLS, adds dirty-scan hash-set pre-sizing, protects TLS-fill initialization with tests, and updates the raw thread-local declaration gate. ChangesGC runtime performance changes
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔴 Critical · up to Fresh threads can stack overflow while initializing arena TLS, making the current change unsafe to merge. The dirty-scan estimate and declaration checker also need small corrections. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FreshThread
participant gc_check_trigger
participant HotTLS
participant tls_hot_fill
FreshThread->>gc_check_trigger: invoke trigger path
gc_check_trigger->>HotTLS: resolve trigger-path declarations
HotTLS->>tls_hot_fill: publish missing slots
tls_hot_fill-->>HotTLS: return cached addresses
HotTLS-->>gc_check_trigger: provide thread-local values
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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 62.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 32 functions across 15 files. (4 skipped: 4 unsupported.)
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/block.rs`:
- Line 1009: Keep ARENA_TOTAL_BYTES declared in the plain thread_local! block
alongside BLOCK_POOL and BLOCK_POOL_BYTES, rather than moving it into
crate::perry_thread_local!. Preserve the ARENA initializer’s ability to read
this raw TLS counter without re-entering tls_hot::fill before temp_roots is
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/copying.rs`:
- Line 1676: Update the estimate handling around
note_dirty_covered_for_presizing so PREVIOUS_DIRTY_COVERED_ESTIMATE is written
only when the dirty scan actually ran; when untraced skips population of
dirty_scan_covered, preserve the previous estimate instead of storing zero.
In `@scripts/check_thread_locals.py`:
- Line 242: Update declaration counting in shipping_raw_declarations() and the
hot-count path to exclude individual declarations gated by #[cfg(test)] before
accumulating totals, including declarations inside reachable blocks. Extend
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| pub(crate) static ARENA_TOTAL_BYTES: std::cell::Cell<usize> = const { std::cell::Cell::new(0) }; | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win
Keep ARENA_TOTAL_BYTES in raw TLS.
ARENA is a tls_hot::fill provider. Its initializer calls Arena::new, which reads ARENA_TOTAL_BYTES. Moving ARENA_TOTAL_BYTES into crate::perry_thread_local! re-enters tls_hot::fill while temp_roots is unset. A fresh thread will recurse until stack overflow. Keep this declaration in the plain thread_local! block with BLOCK_POOL and BLOCK_POOL_BYTES.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/block.rs` at line 1009, Keep ARENA_TOTAL_BYTES
declared in the plain thread_local! block alongside BLOCK_POOL and
BLOCK_POOL_BYTES, rather than moving it into crate::perry_thread_local!.
Preserve the ARENA initializer’s ability to read this raw TLS counter without
re-entering tls_hot::fill before temp_roots is initialized.
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| previous_dirty_covered_estimate(), | ||
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| note_dirty_covered_for_presizing(dirty_scan_covered.len()); |
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve the last estimate when the dirty scan is skipped.
When untraced is true, the scan at Line [1404] does not populate dirty_scan_covered. This line then stores 0 in PREVIOUS_DIRTY_COVERED_ESTIMATE. The next cycle that runs the dirty scan starts with an empty table and pays the growth ladder again. Update the estimate only when the scan ran.
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- note_dirty_covered_for_presizing(dirty_scan_covered.len());
+ if !untraced {
+ note_dirty_covered_for_presizing(dirty_scan_covered.len());
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| note_dirty_covered_for_presizing(dirty_scan_covered.len()); | |
| if !untraced { | |
| note_dirty_covered_for_presizing(dirty_scan_covered.len()); | |
| } |
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/copying.rs` at line 1676, Update the estimate
handling around note_dirty_covered_for_presizing so
PREVIOUS_DIRTY_COVERED_ESTIMATE is written only when the dirty scan actually
ran; when untraced skips population of dirty_scan_covered, preserve the previous
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| open_at, close_at = brace_span(src, m.start()) | ||
| count += len(DECL_RE.findall(src[open_at + 1 : close_at])) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Exclude #[cfg(test)] declarations from both counts. shipping_raw_declarations() skips test-gated blocks, but it still counts test-only declarations inside reachable blocks. For example, gc/barrier_arming.rs records three declarations while only two ship. Hot counting also includes eight test-only declarations in reachable blocks. Filter each declaration before the raw and hot totals, and add a mixed production/test case to self_test. The current hot count is 385 against HOT_SLOT_CAPACITY 768, so it does not fail now, but it can falsely fail the allowlist or capacity gate as counts approach their limits.
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In `@scripts/check_thread_locals.py` at line 242, Update declaration counting in
shipping_raw_declarations() and the hot-count path to exclude individual
declarations gated by #[cfg(test)] before accumulating totals, including
declarations inside reachable blocks. Extend self_test with a mixed
production/test case and preserve production declaration counts for both raw and
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The per-minor dirty-scan covered set is pre-sized instead of being rebuilt
from empty, removing the hashbrown growth ladder every copying minor walked.
dirty_scan_coveredis created withnew_ptr_hash_set()at the top of everycopying minor and filled during the dirty-slot scan. Measured with
[gc-dirty-covered](added here), it reaches ~119,000 entries on a3300-character claude-code reply — not the ~1,000 the
[gc-restore-coverage]objects_skippedfigure suggested — so it walked hashbrown's capacity ladder(1,792 → 14,336 → 57,344 → 114,688 → 229,376) and paid a
RawTable::reserve_rehashat each boundary, re-hashing and re-copying the wholetable.
reserve_rehashwas 217 leaf samples, 1.49 % of the turn, 111 ofthem under
PtrHashSet::insertand the rest underrun_copied_minor_attemptand
restore_surviving_dirty_coverage.The set is now pre-sized from the previous minor's count, the same treatment and
the same justification as
PREVIOUS_SURVIVOR_ESTIMATEimmediately above it: thecount is autocorrelated between adjacent cycles, over-estimating costs only
untouched reserved bytes, under-estimating falls back to ordinary growth, and
the estimate shares that constant's cap so one huge cycle cannot make every
later cycle reserve unboundedly.
reserve_rehashfalls 217 → 167 leaf samples (1.49 % → 1.24 % of the turn).The rig is flat, as expected of a 1.5 % item — 400-character turn CPU 4.05 min
against 4.14, 3300 17.86 against 17.71 — with settled footprint and peak RSS
improving at 400 (557 → 457 MB, 604 → 563 MB) and flat at 3300. The ground
claimed is work permanently removed, counted rather than inferred:
[gc-dirty-covered]reportslen,capacityandpresized_toper minor, sothe pre-size can be seen tracking rather than assumed to.
A high-water estimate was tried and rejected. It is better on the mechanism
— under-shoots fall from 57 of 96 minors to 21 of 97 — but reserving the peak on
every minor cost settled footprint 763 → 1165 MB and peak RSS 974 → 1250 MB at
3300 characters for no measurable time difference (167 vs 182 leaf samples,
inside run-to-run noise). Trading footprint for CPU is rejected, and here it did
not even buy CPU. The rejection is recorded at the function so the next person
does not re-derive it.
Tests
cargo test -p perry-runtime --release -- --test-threads=1 gc:: arena::: 1134 passed, 0 failed.Context
Found while decomposing GC-attributed work per-firing. The wider result is in
secret-tests/cc-perf-campaign/: per-minor fixed cost (side-table prune 8.5 % + dirty-page restore 7.1 % + remembered-set processing 8.7 %) is ~24 % of the turn against 16.5 % for all the copying, so this is one small piece of the largest remaining block.https://claude.ai/code/session_014UZWia6L37DpA93VLtNK9m
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