On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:36:11 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:
> 
>   fix test under VThread factory

Sorry to say, but the implementation seems to have a bug that is causing 
occasional heap corruption, which is being caught by mac's malloc guards. Since 
this is failing in tier 1, and the issue seems like it will take some time to 
investigate and fix, I'm backing out the change for now.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23142#issuecomment-2627569855

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