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* Rename some mutable closure types for consistencyÖmer Sinan Ağacan2018-06-051-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SMALL_MUT_ARR_PTRS_FROZEN0 -> SMALL_MUT_ARR_PTRS_FROZEN_DIRTY SMALL_MUT_ARR_PTRS_FROZEN -> SMALL_MUT_ARR_PTRS_FROZEN_CLEAN MUT_ARR_PTRS_FROZEN0 -> MUT_ARR_PTRS_FROZEN_DIRTY MUT_ARR_PTRS_FROZEN -> MUT_ARR_PTRS_FROZEN_CLEAN Naming is now consistent with other CLEAR/DIRTY objects (MVAR, MUT_VAR, MUT_ARR_PTRS). (alternatively we could rename MVAR_DIRTY/MVAR_CLEAN etc. to MVAR0/MVAR) Removed a few comments in Scav.c about FROZEN0 being on the mut_list because it's now clear from the closure type. Reviewers: bgamari, simonmar, erikd Reviewed By: simonmar Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4784
* Remove CONSTR_STATICSimon Marlow2016-11-141-67/+66
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Summary: We currently have two info tables for a constructor * XXX_con_info: the info table for a heap-resident instance of the constructor, It has type CONSTR, or one of the specialised types like CONSTR_1_0 * XXX_static_info: the info table for a static instance of this constructor, which has type CONSTR_STATIC or CONSTR_STATIC_NOCAF. I'm getting rid of the latter, and using the `con_info` info table for both static and dynamic constructors. For rationale and more details see Note [static constructors] in SMRep.hs. I also removed these macros: `isSTATIC()`, `ip_STATIC()`, `closure_STATIC()`, since they relied on the CONSTR/CONSTR_STATIC distinction, and anyway HEAP_ALLOCED() does the same job. Test Plan: validate Reviewers: bgamari, simonpj, austin, gcampax, hvr, niteria, erikd Subscribers: thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2690 GHC Trac Issues: #12455
* Compact RegionsGiovanni Campagna2016-07-201-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This brings in initial support for compact regions, as described in the ICFP 2015 paper "Efficient Communication and Collection with Compact Normal Forms" (Edward Z. Yang et.al.) and implemented by Giovanni Campagna. Some things may change before the 8.2 release, but I (Simon M.) wanted to get the main patch committed so that we can iterate. What documentation there is is in the Data.Compact module in the new compact package. We'll need to extend and polish the documentation before the release. Test Plan: validate (new test cases included) Reviewers: ezyang, simonmar, hvr, bgamari, austin Subscribers: vikraman, Yuras, RyanGlScott, qnikst, mboes, facundominguez, rrnewton, thomie, erikd Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1264 GHC Trac Issues: #11493
* Remove unused IND_PERMJoachim Breitner2016-01-231-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | it seems that this closure type has not been in use since 5d52d9, so all this is dead and untested code. This removes it. Some of the code might be useful for a counting indirection as described in #10613, so when implementing that, have a look at what this commit removes. Test Plan: validate on harbormaster Reviewers: austin, bgamari, simonmar Reviewed By: simonmar Subscribers: thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1821
* Revert "rts: add Emacs 'Local Variables' to every .c file"Simon Marlow2014-09-291-8/+0
| | | | This reverts commit 39b5c1cbd8950755de400933cecca7b8deb4ffcd.
* rts: add Emacs 'Local Variables' to every .c fileAustin Seipp2014-07-281-0/+8
| | | | | | | | This will hopefully help ensure some basic consistency in the forward by overriding buffer variables. In particular, it sets the wrap length, the offset to 4, and turns off tabs. Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>
* Add SmallArray# and SmallMutableArray# typesJohan Tibell2014-03-291-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These array types are smaller than Array# and MutableArray# and are faster when the array size is small, as they don't have the overhead of a card table. Having no card table reduces the closure size with 2 words in the typical small array case and leads to less work when updating or GC:ing the array. Reduces both the runtime and memory allocation by 8.8% on my insert benchmark for the HashMap type in the unordered-containers package, which makes use of lots of small arrays. With tuned GC settings (i.e. `+RTS -A6M`) the runtime reduction is 15%. Fixes #8923.
* Untab ClosureTypes.h and ClosureFlags.cPatrick Palka2013-12-041-41/+41
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* Add a write barrier for TVAR closuresSimon Marlow2012-11-161-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | This improves GC performance when there are a lot of TVars in the heap. For instance, a TChan with a lot of elements causes a massive GC drag without this patch. There's more to do - several other STM closure types don't have write barriers, so GC performance when there are a lot of threads blocked on STM isn't great. But fixing the problem for TVar is a good start.
* Produce new-style Cmm from the Cmm parserSimon Marlow2012-10-081-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The main change here is that the Cmm parser now allows high-level cmm code with argument-passing and function calls. For example: foo ( gcptr a, bits32 b ) { if (b > 0) { // we can make tail calls passing arguments: jump stg_ap_0_fast(a); } return (x,y); } More details on the new cmm syntax are in Note [Syntax of .cmm files] in CmmParse.y. The old syntax is still more-or-less supported for those occasional code fragments that really need to explicitly manipulate the stack. However there are a couple of differences: it is now obligatory to give a list of live GlobalRegs on every jump, e.g. jump %ENTRY_CODE(Sp(0)) [R1]; Again, more details in Note [Syntax of .cmm files]. I have rewritten most of the .cmm files in the RTS into the new syntax, except for AutoApply.cmm which is generated by the genapply program: this file could be generated in the new syntax instead and would probably be better off for it, but I ran out of enthusiasm. Some other changes in this batch: - The PrimOp calling convention is gone, primops now use the ordinary NativeNodeCall convention. This means that primops and "foreign import prim" code must be written in high-level cmm, but they can now take more than 10 arguments. - CmmSink now does constant-folding (should fix #7219) - .cmm files now go through the cmmPipeline, and as a result we generate better code in many cases. All the object files generated for the RTS .cmm files are now smaller. Performance should be better too, but I haven't measured it yet. - RET_DYN frames are removed from the RTS, lots of code goes away - we now have some more canned GC points to cover unboxed-tuples with 2-4 pointers, which will reduce code size a little.
* fix _BTM field of closureFlags[], and document what it means (#5923)Simon Marlow2012-03-141-9/+9
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* Implement stack chunks and separate TSO/STACK objectsSimon Marlow2010-12-151-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes two changes to the way stacks are managed: 1. The stack is now stored in a separate object from the TSO. This means that it is easier to replace the stack object for a thread when the stack overflows or underflows; we don't have to leave behind the old TSO as an indirection any more. Consequently, we can remove ThreadRelocated and deRefTSO(), which were a pain. This is obviously the right thing, but the last time I tried to do it it made performance worse. This time I seem to have cracked it. 2. Stacks are now represented as a chain of chunks, rather than a single monolithic object. The big advantage here is that individual chunks are marked clean or dirty according to whether they contain pointers to the young generation, and the GC can avoid traversing clean stack chunks during a young-generation collection. This means that programs with deep stacks will see a big saving in GC overhead when using the default GC settings. A secondary advantage is that there is much less copying involved as the stack grows. Programs that quickly grow a deep stack will see big improvements. In some ways the implementation is simpler, as nothing special needs to be done to reclaim stack as the stack shrinks (the GC just recovers the dead stack chunks). On the other hand, we have to manage stack underflow between chunks, so there's a new stack frame (UNDERFLOW_FRAME), and we now have separate TSO and STACK objects. The total amount of code is probably about the same as before. There are new RTS flags: -ki<size> Sets the initial thread stack size (default 1k) Egs: -ki4k -ki2m -kc<size> Sets the stack chunk size (default 32k) -kb<size> Sets the stack chunk buffer size (default 1k) -ki was previously called just -k, and the old name is still accepted for backwards compatibility. These new options are documented.
* Remove the IND_OLDGEN and IND_OLDGEN_PERM closure typesSimon Marlow2010-04-011-3/+1
| | | | | | | These are no longer used: once upon a time they used to have different layout from IND and IND_PERM respectively, but that is no longer the case since we changed the remembered set to be an array of addresses instead of a linked list of closures.
* New implementation of BLACKHOLEsSimon Marlow2010-03-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This replaces the global blackhole_queue with a clever scheme that enables us to queue up blocked threads on the closure that they are blocked on, while still avoiding atomic instructions in the common case. Advantages: - gets rid of a locked global data structure and some tricky GC code (replacing it with some per-thread data structures and different tricky GC code :) - wakeups are more prompt: parallel/concurrent performance should benefit. I haven't seen anything dramatic in the parallel benchmarks so far, but a couple of threading benchmarks do improve a bit. - waking up a thread blocked on a blackhole is now O(1) (e.g. if it is the target of throwTo). - less sharing and better separation of Capabilities: communication is done with messages, the data structures are strictly owned by a Capability and cannot be modified except by sending messages. - this change will utlimately enable us to do more intelligent scheduling when threads block on each other. This is what started off the whole thing, but it isn't done yet (#3838). I'll be documenting all this on the wiki in due course.
* Use message-passing to implement throwTo in the RTSSimon Marlow2010-03-111-7/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This replaces some complicated locking schemes with message-passing in the implementation of throwTo. The benefits are - previously it was impossible to guarantee that a throwTo from a thread running on one CPU to a thread running on another CPU would be noticed, and we had to rely on the GC to pick up these forgotten exceptions. This no longer happens. - the locking regime is simpler (though the code is about the same size) - threads can be unblocked from a blocked_exceptions queue without having to traverse the whole queue now. It's a rare case, but replaces an O(n) operation with an O(1). - generally we move in the direction of sharing less between Capabilities (aka HECs), which will become important with other changes we have planned. Also in this patch I replaced several STM-specific closure types with a generic MUT_PRIM closure type, which allowed a lot of code in the GC and other places to go away, hence the line-count reduction. The message-passing changes resulted in about a net zero line-count difference.
* remove the GUM closure typesSimon Marlow2009-08-031-6/+1
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* use C99-style array initialisersSimon Marlow2009-08-031-75/+70
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* Add optional eager black-holing, with new flag -feager-blackholingSimon Marlow2008-11-181-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eager blackholing can improve parallel performance by reducing the chances that two threads perform the same computation. However, it has a cost: one extra memory write per thunk entry. To get the best results, any code which may be executed in parallel should be compiled with eager blackholing turned on. But since there's a cost for sequential code, we make it optional and turn it on for the parallel package only. It might be a good idea to compile applications (or modules) with parallel code in with -feager-blackholing. ToDo: document -feager-blackholing.
* Initial parallel GC supportSimon Marlow2007-10-311-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | eg. use +RTS -g2 -RTS for 2 threads. Only major GCs are parallelised, minor GCs are still sequential. Don't use more threads than you have CPUs. It works most of the time, although you won't see much speedup yet. Tuning and more work on stability still required.
* Add a proper write barrier for MVarsSimon Marlow2007-10-111-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | Previously MVars were always on the mutable list of the old generation, which meant every MVar was visited during every minor GC. With lots of MVars hanging around, this gets expensive. We addressed this problem for MUT_VARs (aka IORefs) a while ago, the solution is to use a traditional GC write-barrier when the object is modified. This patch does the same thing for MVars. TVars are still done the old way, they could probably benefit from the same treatment too.
* Minor comment updateMichael D. Adams2007-06-061-2/+2
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* Remove vectored returns.Simon Marlow2007-02-281-3/+1
| | | | | We recently discovered that they aren't a win any more, and just cost code size.
* STM invariantstharris@microsoft.com2006-10-071-2/+4
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* Remove CONSTR_CHARLIKE and CONSTR_INTLIKE closure typesSimon Marlow2006-09-071-4/+1
| | | | | | | | These closure types aren't used/needed, as far as I can tell. The commoning up of Chars/Ints happens by comparing info pointers, and the info table for a dynamic C#/I# is CONSTR_0_1. The RTS seemed a little confused about whether CONSTR_CHARLIKE/CONSTR_INTLIKE were supposed to be static or dynamic closures, too.
* Reorganisation of the source treeSimon Marlow2006-04-071-0/+107
Most of the other users of the fptools build system have migrated to Cabal, and with the move to darcs we can now flatten the source tree without losing history, so here goes. The main change is that the ghc/ subdir is gone, and most of what it contained is now at the top level. The build system now makes no pretense at being multi-project, it is just the GHC build system. No doubt this will break many things, and there will be a period of instability while we fix the dependencies. A straightforward build should work, but I haven't yet fixed binary/source distributions. Changes to the Building Guide will follow, too.
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