Converting size to usize is what jemalloc has been done by ceiling
size to the closest size class. However, this causes lots of memory
wastes with HPA enabled. This commit changes how usize is calculated so
that the gap between two contiguous usize is no larger than a page.
Specifically, this commit includes the following changes:
1. Adding a build-time config option (--enable-limit-usize-gap) and a
runtime one (limit_usize_gap) to guard the changes.
When build-time
config is enabled, some minor CPU overhead is expected because usize
will be stored and accessed apart from index. When runtime option is
also enabled (it can only be enabled with the build-time config
enabled). a new usize calculation approach wil be employed. This new
calculation will ceil size to the closest multiple of PAGE for all sizes
larger than USIZE_GROW_SLOW_THRESHOLD instead of using the size classes.
Note when the build-time config is enabled, the runtime option is
default on.
2. Prepare tcache for size to grow by PAGE over GROUP*PAGE.
To prepare for the upcoming changes where size class grows by PAGE when
larger than NGROUP * PAGE, disable the tcache when it is larger than 2 *
NGROUP * PAGE. The threshold for tcache is set higher to prevent perf
regression as much as possible while usizes between NGROUP * PAGE and 2 *
NGROUP * PAGE happen to grow by PAGE.
3. Prepare pac and hpa psset for size to grow by PAGE over GROUP*PAGE
For PAC, to avoid having too many bins, arena bins still have the same
layout. This means some extra search is needed for a page-level request that
is not aligned with the orginal size class: it should also search the heap
before the current index since the previous heap might also be able to
have some allocations satisfying it. The same changes apply to HPA's
psset.
This search relies on the enumeration of the heap because not all allocs in
the previous heap are guaranteed to satisfy the request. To balance the
memory and CPU overhead, we currently enumerate at most a fixed number
of nodes before concluding none can satisfy the request during an
enumeration.
4. Add bytes counter to arena large stats.
To prepare for the upcoming usize changes, stats collected by
multiplying alive allocations and the bin size is no longer accurate.
Thus, add separate counters to record the bytes malloced and dalloced.
5. Change structs use when freeing to avoid using index2size for large sizes.
- Change the definition of emap_alloc_ctx_t
- Change the read of both from edata_t.
- Change the assignment and usage of emap_alloc_ctx_t.
- Change other callsites of index2size.
Note for the changes in the data structure, i.e., emap_alloc_ctx_t,
will be used when the build-time config (--enable-limit-usize-gap) is
enabled but they will store the same value as index2size(szind) if the
runtime option (opt_limit_usize_gap) is not enabled.
6. Adapt hpa to the usize changes.
Change the settings in sec to limit is usage for sizes larger than
USIZE_GROW_SLOW_THRESHOLD and modify corresponding tests.
7. Modify usize calculation and corresponding tests.
Change the sz_s2u_compute. Note sz_index2size is not always safe now
while sz_size2index still works as expected.
Header files are now self-contained, which makes the relationships
between the files clearer, and crucially allows LSP tools like `clangd`
to function correctly in all of our header files. I have verified that
the headers are self-contained (aside from the various Windows shims) by
compiling them as if they were C files – in a follow-up commit I plan to
add this to CI to ensure we don't regress on this front.
Specify the maximum number of regions in a slab, which is
(<lg-page> - <lg-tiny-min>) by default. This increases the limit of slab sizes
specified by "slab_sizes" in malloc_conf. This should never be less than
the default value. The max value of this option is related to LG_BITMAP_MAXBITS
(see more in bitmap.h).
For example, on a 4k page size system, if we:
1) configure jemalloc with with --with-lg-slab-maxregs=12.
2) export MALLOC_CONF="slab_sizes:9-16:4"
The slab size of 16 bytes is set to 4 pages. Previously, the default
lg-slab-maxregs is 9 (i.e. 12 - 3). The max slab size of 16 bytes is 2 pages
(i.e. (1<<9) * 16 bytes). By increasing the value from 9 to 12, the max slab
size can be set by MALLOC_CONF is 16 pages (i.e. (1<<12) * 16 bytes).
Mainly fixing typos. The only non-trivial change is in the
computation for SC_NPSIZES, though the result wouldn't be any
different when SC_NGROUP = 4 as is always the case at the moment.
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.
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.
Slobodan Predolac