perf(gc): birth a large JSON result in the arena when the young generation already holds a document - #10177
perf(gc): birth a large JSON result in the arena when the young generation already holds a document#10177proggeramlug wants to merge 2 commits into
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…ion already holds it JSON results at or above 512 KB are malloc-tracked so that the next minor can reclaim a discarded result without a whole-old-heap trace. That trade inverts when the young generation already holds at least as many bytes as the leaf, which is the shape of a freshly parsed document the caller is about to stringify: a non-empty malloc registry forbids the untraced in-place promotion, so the next minor traces the whole tree (55 ms for a 20 MB document, 52% of the roundtrip's wall time) to reclaim one leaf. Such a leaf is now born old in the arena instead. The tree promotes untraced, and the leaf is reclaimed by the old-reclaim full that has to mark the tree anyway. Results allocated while the young generation is small keep the malloc path, and only tracked leaves charge malloc-output debt.
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Large parsed JSON keys and borrowed values routed to arena storage can still accumulate malloc-output debt and trigger avoidable GC work. Fix the accounting gate before merging to preserve the intended performance improvement. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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With the ratchet corpus bit-identical on every gated counter and the 22-row JSON A/B in the description, taking this out of draft. The remaining cc-rig measurement on perrymaster for GC policy changes is not done in this PR; the change is inert unless a document-sized JSON result is allocated while the young generation holds a base nursery's worth of retained data, which the cc workload's small-record parses do not reach. |
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/string/json_construction.rs`:
- Around line 26-27: Update the large-leaf allocation path in
string_from_json_bytes to retain malloc_tracked from json_output_storage_alloc
and call note_completed_malloc_json_output only when that flag is true;
arena-backed allocations must not add malloc debt or schedule malloc sweeping.
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Gate completion accounting on malloc_tracked.
json_output_storage_alloc returns false when json_leaf_prefers_arena selects arena storage (crates/perry-runtime/src/string/mod.rs:697-711). The parser reaches this path for borrowed values and keys, but string_from_json_bytes discards the flag and unconditionally calls note_completed_malloc_json_output for every large leaf. That function adds malloc debt and schedules a sweep at 32 MiB. Keep malloc_tracked in scope and call it only when the flag is true, as the other callers do.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/string/json_construction.rs` around lines 26 - 27,
Update the large-leaf allocation path in string_from_json_bytes to retain
malloc_tracked from json_output_storage_alloc and call
note_completed_malloc_json_output only when that flag is true; arena-backed
allocations must not add malloc debt or schedule malloc sweeping.
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Summary
Closes #10169.
JSON.stringifyresults at or above 512 KB are malloc-tracked so that a discarded result can be reclaimed by the next minor without a whole-old-heap trace. On a parse-then-stringify loop over a document-sized input that trade inverts: the young generation holds the freshly parsed tree, a non-empty malloc registry forbids the untraced in-place promotion (skip_rememberingrequires it empty), so every minor traces the whole tree — 55 ms for a 20 MB document, 52 % of the roundtrip's wall time — to reclaim one leaf, and a single stale tracked leaf keeps the veto in place until it is swept.Such a leaf is now born old in the arena instead, and only under three conditions, each of which a measured regression selected:
A leaf born old this way also tells the collector (
gc::note_young_leaf_born_old), and the next trigger decision gives the nursery minor one-time priority over old-reclaim while the young generation is still unmeasured. That is what keeps a stringify-only loop correct: its parsed input is promoted once by that minor, after which the young generation is too small for the route and every later result is malloc-tracked as before. Without it, old-reclaim wins every safepoint (each born-old result is old-gen growth), the input tree stays in Eden, and every full re-marks it: 5.7× on the 20 MB stringify row in the first blanket experiment. The flag is consumed by the decision whatever it decides, so it cannot starve old-reclaim.Only malloc-tracked results charge malloc-output debt;
json_output_storage_allocnow returns which path it took.Measurement
Same tree (
origin/main=b5a82cfeaevs this commit), one self-contained worker per arm, interleaved best-of-3,/usr/bin/time -l, loaded shared host (±2 % is noise).records_array_16k:scanrecords_array_1m:parserecords_array_1m:roundtriprecords_array_1m:scanrecords_array_1m:sparserecords_array_1m:stringifyrecords_array_20m:parserecords_array_20m:roundtriprecords_array_20m:scanrecords_array_20m:sparserecords_array_20m:stringifyrecords_array_8m:parse(5 reps)records_array_8m:roundtrip(5 reps)records_array_8m:scan(5 reps)records_array_8m:sparserecords_array_8m:stringify(5 reps)records_object_20m:parserecords_object_20m:stringifyrecords_object_8m:parserecords_object_8m:stringifysmall_record:parsewide_1m:parseRows marked 5 reps were re-measured with five interleaved reps after a first pass showed a 2–3 % cluster on the 8 MB family (which the change cannot touch: neither arm collects at all inside those cells); the cluster was load noise.
GC diagnostics on the 20 MB roundtrip (
PERRY_GC_DIAG=1, 5 iterations): baseline 3 traced minors (72 / 124 / 128 ms,copy_evacuation≈ 55 ms with 0 objects copied, then in-place promotion); this branch 1 traced first-cycle minor then untraced minors of 9–11 ms, malloc registry empty at every trigger. On the 20 MB stringify-only row: one traced minor promoting the input, then the malloc regime as onmain. On the 1 MB stringify row: identical tomain(5MallocCountminors, no route taken).The intermediate designs and why each was rejected are recorded on #10169 (blanket arena births: 5.7× on stringify rows; young ≥ old-gen conjunct: loses the roundtrip win to dead-but-unswept outputs; safepoint arming alone: old-reclaim outranks the minor; survival-only gate: the first leaf's stale registry entry; adaptive cap gate: the cap outgrows the tree).
Validation
benchmarks/gc_ratchet/gc_ratchet.py measure, 14 probes × 7 repeats, plain archives,PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1), run on themainbaseline archives and on this commit's: every gated counter is bit-identical across all 14 probes (minor_cycles, step_cycles, copied_objects/bytes, promoted_objects/bytes, heap_used_bytes); peak RSS within ±0.4 % (13_large_eden_survivors−2.2 %); all 14 correctness checks pass on both.check --profile shared_cifails identically for the untouchedmainbuild (pre-existing drift of the pinned baseline:01_nursery_churnheap_used +107 %,02_survivor_promotioncopied +8 %,04_dead_after_deep_stackcopied −26 %).RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test --release -p perry-runtimefiltered tojson(298 passed),string(425 passed, including the newlarge_json_leaf_routes_by_young_generation_occupancy),gc::tests::young_leaf_route(the new trigger-priority test, 1 passed),gc::tests::promote_in_place(23),gc::tests::triggers(33),gc::tests::scan_fallback(13): 0 failures.scripts/run_lint_gates.sh: 76 of 79 gate commands pass. The three reds are pre-existing on cleanmainand untouched here: public benchmark evidence freshness,-D warningsdead-code inglobal_this_webassembly.rs, and the API docs drift the regen step itself produces (files restored). The GC-pointer holder custody audit initially flaggedcensus.rs:PASS1_MARKED's pinned window becausegc/mod.rsandgc/policy.rschanged; the window was re-audited (the new trigger branch runs before any cycle starts and cannot touch the mark-complete → sweep-entry window) and its pins updated with the dated note inscripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json; the audit and its self-test pass.Summary by CodeRabbit