[ruby-core:86856] [Ruby trunk Feature#14723] [WIP] sleepy GC

Issue #14723 has been updated by noahgibbs (Noah Gibbs).


I checked today's head-of-master with Rails Ruby Bench. The first run suggests a noticeable drop in performance between 2.6 preview 1 and head-of-master. It's not guaranteed that the drop is because of this change. I'll try to repro with more runs first, then see if this change seems responsible -- could be something else in 2.6. But I'm seeing a drop in RRB throughput from around 179 req/sec to around 170 req/sec, and a significant increase in variance between runs (from about 2.6 to about 11.9). This is with only 20 runs, though. I'll definitely get a lot more datapoints before I'm sure. But it's a large enough drop that it's probably *not* random noise.


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Feature #14723: [WIP] sleepy GC
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14723#change-71821

* Author: normalperson (Eric Wong)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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The idea is to use "idle time" when process is otherwise sleeping
and using no CPU time to perform GC.  It makes sense because real
world traffic sees idle time due to network latency and waiting
for user input.

Right now, it's Linux-only.  Future patches will affect other sleeping
functions:

  IO.select, Kernel#sleep, Thread#join, Process.waitpid, etc...

I don't know if this patch can be implemented for win32, right
now it's just dummy functions and that will be somebody elses
job.  But all pthreads platforms should eventually benefit.


Before this patch, the entropy-dependent script below takes 95MB
consistently on my system.  Now, depending on the amount of
entropy on my system, it takes anywhere from 43MB to 75MB.

I'm using /dev/urandom to simulate real-world network latency
variations.  There is no improvement when using /dev/zero
because the process is never idle.

  require 'net/http'
  require 'digest/md5'
  Thread.abort_on_exception = true
  s = TCPServer.new('127.0.0.1', 0)
  len = 1024 * 1024 * 1024
  th = Thread.new do
    c = s.accept
    c.readpartial(16384)
    c.write("HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: #{len}\r\n\r\n")
    IO.copy_stream('/dev/urandom', c, len)
    c.close
  end

  addr = s.addr
  Net::HTTP.start(addr[3], addr[1]) do |http|
    http.request_get('/') do |res|
      dig = Digest::MD5.new
      res.read_body { |buf|
        dig.update(buf)
      }
      puts dig.hexdigest
    end
  end

The above script is also dependent on net/protocol using
read_nonblock.  Ordinary IO objects will need IO#nonblock=true
to see benefits (because they never hit rb_wait_for_single_fd)

* gc.c (rb_gc_inprogress): new function
  (rb_gc_step): ditto
* internal.h: declare prototypes for new gc.c functions
* thread_pthread.c (gvl_contended_p): new function
* thread_win32.c (gvl_contended_p): ditto (dummy)
* thread.c (rb_wait_for_single_fd w/ ppoll):
  use new functions to perform GC while GVL is uncontended
  and GC is lazy sweeping or incremental marking
  [ruby-core:86265]
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2 part patch broken out
https://80x24.org/spew/[e-mail]/raw
https://80x24.org/spew/[e-mail]/raw

Also on my "sleepy-gc" git branch @ git://80x24.org/ruby.git


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