On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 08:33:23 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 four 
> additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - test deep linker stack
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/mernst/cache-segments' into 
> mernst/cache-segments
>  - topOfStack
>  - (c)

test/jdk/java/foreign/TestBufferStack.java line 28:

> 26:  * @modules java.base/jdk.internal.foreign.abi
> 27:  * @build NativeTestHelper TestBufferStack
> 28:  * @run testng TestBufferStack

This needs to enable native access now.

Suggestion:

 * @run testng/othervm --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED TestBufferStack

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23142#discussion_r1927340517

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