On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:01:03 GMT, Matthias Ernst <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Certain signatures for foreign function calls (e.g. HVA return by value) 
>> require allocation of an intermediate buffer to adapt the FFM's to the 
>> native stub's calling convention. In the current implementation, this buffer 
>> is malloced and freed on every FFM invocation, a non-negligible overhead.
>> 
>> Sample stack trace:
>> 
>>    java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
>>      at jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe.allocateMemory0(java.base@25-ea/Native 
>> Method)
>> ...
>>      at 
>> jdk.internal.foreign.abi.SharedUtils.newBoundedArena(java.base@25-ea/SharedUtils.java:386)
>>      at 
>> jdk.internal.foreign.abi.DowncallStub/0x000001f001084c00.invoke(java.base@25-ea/Unknown
>>  Source)
>> ...
>>      at 
>> java.lang.invoke.Invokers$Holder.invokeExact_MT(java.base@25-ea/Invokers$Holder)
>> 
>> 
>> To alleviate this, this PR implements a per carrier-thread stacked allocator.
>> 
>> Performance (MBA M3):
>> 
>> 
>> Before:
>> Benchmark                    Mode  Cnt   Score   Error  Units
>> CallOverheadByValue.byPtr    avgt   10   3.333 ? 0.152  ns/op
>> CallOverheadByValue.byValue  avgt   10  33.892 ? 0.034  ns/op
>> 
>> After:
>> Benchmark                    Mode  Cnt  Score   Error  Units
>> CallOverheadByValue.byPtr    avgt   30  3.311 ? 0.034  ns/op
>> CallOverheadByValue.byValue  avgt   30  6.143 ? 0.053  ns/op
>> 
>> 
>> `-prof gc` also shows that the new call path is fully scalar-replaced vs 160 
>> byte/call before.
>
> Matthias Ernst has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   an attempt at a stress test

I've removed the trailing `.` from the issue title, so you should be able to 
fix the warning now. I don't mind changing the title/description to something 
else as well

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23142#issuecomment-2607765961

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