perf(gc): skip tiny per-object layout masks - #8539
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe runtime raises the minimum payload size for per-object layout masks from two to four slots. Smaller payloads use tag-checked scanning. GC, array, cache, and typed-layout tests now use four-slot fixtures and updated expectations. ChangesLayout Mask Cutoff
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change redirects small mixed payloads to full tag-checked scanning, but several GC layout tests do not keep live heap pointers rooted across allocations that may trigger collection. Those tests may observe relocated or stale pointers and fail to validate the new behavior reliably, so merge should wait for the test fixes. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@changelog.d/8539-interp-small-layout-mask-cutoff.md`:
- Line 5: Update the prose in the changelog entry so the phrase uses the
hyphenated compound modifier “self-samples.”
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/layout_trace.rs`:
- Around line 161-169: Root every live heap pointer before allocating calls that
may trigger GC, then refresh each pointer or value from its handle afterward.
Apply this at layout_trace.rs lines 161-169, 245-255, and 290-297;
array_layout.rs lines 102-111 and 192-209; and per_object_tables.rs lines
602-613, including child0 across child1 allocation, child_box across src
allocation, and src across cloning or concatenation. Refresh child_header after
relocation and preserve the updated array and child references when populating
the layouts.
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| - **Cut `interp` retired instructions by 4.61% by keeping tiny mixed GC | ||
| payloads out of the per-object layout tables.** A 30-run sample profile put | ||
| 61.1% of self samples in `evalNode`; the result did not support the suspected |
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Hyphenate self-samples.
Use self-samples as the compound modifier.
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[grammar] ~5-~5: Use a hyphen to join words.
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In `@changelog.d/8539-interp-small-layout-mask-cutoff.md` at line 5, Update the
prose in the changelog entry so the phrase uses the hyphenated compound modifier
“self-samples.”
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| let arr = crate::array::js_array_alloc_with_length(4); | ||
| crate::array::js_array_set_f64(arr, 0, 1.0); | ||
| crate::array::js_array_set_f64( | ||
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| f64::from_bits(STRING_TAG | (child as u64 & POINTER_MASK)), | ||
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| crate::array::js_array_set_f64(arr, 2, 2.0); | ||
| crate::array::js_array_set_f64(arr, 3, 3.0); |
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Root and refresh every live heap pointer across allocation points.
js_array_alloc_with_length can call gc_check_trigger() when the current arena block is full. Root each live child and array before that call, then read the updated pointer or value from its handle after every allocating call.
layout_trace.rs#L161-L169,#L245-L255,#L290-L297array_layout.rs#L102-L111,#L192-L209per_object_tables.rs#L602-L613
This also covers child0 across the child1 allocation, child_box across src allocation, and src across cloning and concatenation. Refresh child_header values after relocation.
📍 Affects 3 files
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/layout_trace.rs#L161-L169(this comment)crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/layout_trace.rs#L245-L255crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/layout_trace.rs#L290-L297crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/layout_trace/array_layout.rs#L102-L111crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/layout_trace/array_layout.rs#L192-L209crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/layout_trace/per_object_tables.rs#L602-L613
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/layout_trace.rs` around lines 161 - 169,
Root every live heap pointer before allocating calls that may trigger GC, then
refresh each pointer or value from its handle afterward. Apply this at
layout_trace.rs lines 161-169, 245-255, and 290-297; array_layout.rs lines
102-111 and 192-209; and per_object_tables.rs lines 602-613, including child0
across child1 allocation, child_box across src allocation, and src across
cloning or concatenation. Refresh child_header after relocation and preserve the
updated array and child references when populating the layouts.
Source: Coding guidelines
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Audited and merging. The failure direction is the safe one, which is what makes this reviewable at all. The change moves one-, two- and three-slot payloads from a per-object pointer mask to the collector's exact tag scan. A mask is an optimization that lets the tracer skip slots known not to hold pointers; the tag scan inspects each slot's actual NaN-box tag. So widening the tag-scan range cannot lose a pointer — it can only cost time. A change in the opposite direction (more objects onto masks) would be the dangerous one. The soundness argument is stated where it belongs, at the constant:
That is the right claim to make — the tag check is exact here, not merely conservative — and The rationale for
Every other row moved less than 0.37%, The new invariant test is written to survive the constant changing — it derives its payload size from The motivating cost is real and previously bitten: one long-lived side-table entry arms
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Summary
Raise the minimum payload size for a per-object GC pointer mask from two slots to four. Two- and three-slot mixed payloads now use the collector's exact tag-checked scan instead of keeping a side-table mask alive and arming per-object layout cleanup on every allocation.
On the 19-program corpus this cuts
interpretired instructions by 4.61% (9,013,545,066 -> 8,598,251,738), with 19/19 byte-exact output, no other row moving by more than 1%, and no peak-RSS regression.Profiling finding
This was not the suspected dynamic-numeric-envelope problem. Across 30 sampled runs,
evalNodeaccounted for 61.1% of self samples. The useful signal was that its tiny pointer-bearing environment arrays repeatedly created and later removed per-object layout masks whose only local benefit was skipping one or two exact tag checks.The cutoff is 4, not 8, because a threshold sweep found the full
interpretired-instruction win at 4. Raising it further to 8 retired no fewer instructions, while forcing larger objects through extra per-slot tag checks and broadening both the GC policy change and the number of layout preconditions affected. Four is the smallest threshold that captures the measured win.GC correctness
This changes a tracing-policy boundary, not just a performance knob. Below the cutoff the object enters
GC_LAYOUT_UNKNOWN, whose child iterator scans every payload slot. The mask it replaces was itself built withlayout_pointer_bearing_bits, and the unknown-layout scan applies that same predicate to every slot, so the scan visits a superset of the mask-selected slots: a pointer slot cannot be missed.Intact typed descriptors are not redirected to this path. The two mask-minting sites either already operate on NaN-boxed slots or clear the typed-layout-intact bit before rebuilding, so raw-f64 payload bits cannot be mistaken for this safety argument.
Changes
DEFAULT_MASK_MIN_SLOTSfrom 2 to 4.Related issue
Refs #8410
Test plan
cargo build --releaseRUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test --release -p perry-runtime(2,608 passed, 4 ignored; 0 failed; doc tests 0 failed)PERRY_BIN=<target>/release/perry PERRY_RUNTIME_DIR=<target>/release PERRY_SKIP_BUILD=1 ./scripts/run_gap_tests.sh(575/575 match the snapshot: 570 pass, 5 known parity mismatches, 0 compile failures, 0 crashes)cargo test --release -p perry-codegen(1,113 passed)cargo test --release -p perry --bin perry(1,008 passed)Checklist
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