runtime: GC should wake up idle Ps #14179
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ping @aclements for 1.7 vs 1.8 triage |
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Not a serious issue, so moving to 1.8. |
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This is in fact an issue during mark 1, but for a different reason: I believe we do always start the idle workers for mark 1, but it looks like they can sometimes run out of work very early and exit, causing the Ps to go idle again. We don't wake those up once more work is enqueued, so they stay idle. |
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@aclements Are we still on track to do this for Go1.8? |
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CL https://golang.org/cl/32434 mentions this issue. |
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We have seen one instance of a production job suddenly spinning to
100% CPU and becoming unresponsive. In that one instance, a SIGQUIT
was sent after 328 minutes of spinning, and the stacks showed a single
goroutine in "IO wait (scan)" state.
Looking for things that might get stuck if a goroutine got stuck in
scanning a stack, we found that injectglist does:
lock(&sched.lock)
var n int
for n = 0; glist != nil; n++ {
gp := glist
glist = gp.schedlink.ptr()
casgstatus(gp, _Gwaiting, _Grunnable)
globrunqput(gp)
}
unlock(&sched.lock)
and that casgstatus spins on gp.atomicstatus until the _Gscan bit goes
away. Essentially, this code locks sched.lock and then while holding
sched.lock, waits to lock gp.atomicstatus.
The code that is doing the scan is:
if castogscanstatus(gp, s, s|_Gscan) {
if !gp.gcscandone {
scanstack(gp, gcw)
gp.gcscandone = true
}
restartg(gp)
break loop
}
More analysis showed that scanstack can, in a rare case, end up
calling back into code that acquires sched.lock. For example:
runtime.scanstack at proc.go:866
calls runtime.gentraceback at mgcmark.go:842
calls runtime.scanstack$1 at traceback.go:378
calls runtime.scanframeworker at mgcmark.go:819
calls runtime.scanblock at mgcmark.go:904
calls runtime.greyobject at mgcmark.go:1221
calls (*runtime.gcWork).put at mgcmark.go:1412
calls (*runtime.gcControllerState).enlistWorker at mgcwork.go:127
calls runtime.wakep at mgc.go:632
calls runtime.startm at proc.go:1779
acquires runtime.sched.lock at proc.go:1675
This path was found with an automated deadlock-detecting tool.
There are many such paths but they all go through enlistWorker -> wakep.
The evidence strongly suggests that one of these paths is what caused
the deadlock we observed. We're running those jobs with
GOTRACEBACK=crash now to try to get more information if it happens
again.
Further refinement and analysis shows that if we drop the wakep call
from enlistWorker, the remaining few deadlock cycles found by the tool
are all false positives caused by not understanding the effect of calls
to func variables.
The enlistWorker -> wakep call was intended only as a performance
optimization, it rarely executes, and if it does execute at just the
wrong time it can (and plausibly did) cause the deadlock we saw.
Comment it out, to avoid the potential deadlock.
Fixes #19112.
Unfixes #14179.
Change-Id: I6f7e10b890b991c11e79fab7aeefaf70b5d5a07b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/37093
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <[email protected]>
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CL https://golang.org/cl/37022 mentions this issue. |
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For the record, unfixing this in Go 1.8 slowed the garbage benchmark by about 4%, STW time by about 3%. It does seem worthwhile to fix again for Go 1.9. |
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FWIW, the previous claim was based on 40+ runs of each benchmark, but a second run of benchmark results is not showing any difference. So possibly no win at all to fixing this. Easy to run the experiment; hard to interpret the results. |
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…to avoid possible deadlock
We have seen one instance of a production job suddenly spinning to
100% CPU and becoming unresponsive. In that one instance, a SIGQUIT
was sent after 328 minutes of spinning, and the stacks showed a single
goroutine in "IO wait (scan)" state.
Looking for things that might get stuck if a goroutine got stuck in
scanning a stack, we found that injectglist does:
lock(&sched.lock)
var n int
for n = 0; glist != nil; n++ {
gp := glist
glist = gp.schedlink.ptr()
casgstatus(gp, _Gwaiting, _Grunnable)
globrunqput(gp)
}
unlock(&sched.lock)
and that casgstatus spins on gp.atomicstatus until the _Gscan bit goes
away. Essentially, this code locks sched.lock and then while holding
sched.lock, waits to lock gp.atomicstatus.
The code that is doing the scan is:
if castogscanstatus(gp, s, s|_Gscan) {
if !gp.gcscandone {
scanstack(gp, gcw)
gp.gcscandone = true
}
restartg(gp)
break loop
}
More analysis showed that scanstack can, in a rare case, end up
calling back into code that acquires sched.lock. For example:
runtime.scanstack at proc.go:866
calls runtime.gentraceback at mgcmark.go:842
calls runtime.scanstack$1 at traceback.go:378
calls runtime.scanframeworker at mgcmark.go:819
calls runtime.scanblock at mgcmark.go:904
calls runtime.greyobject at mgcmark.go:1221
calls (*runtime.gcWork).put at mgcmark.go:1412
calls (*runtime.gcControllerState).enlistWorker at mgcwork.go:127
calls runtime.wakep at mgc.go:632
calls runtime.startm at proc.go:1779
acquires runtime.sched.lock at proc.go:1675
This path was found with an automated deadlock-detecting tool.
There are many such paths but they all go through enlistWorker -> wakep.
The evidence strongly suggests that one of these paths is what caused
the deadlock we observed. We're running those jobs with
GOTRACEBACK=crash now to try to get more information if it happens
again.
Further refinement and analysis shows that if we drop the wakep call
from enlistWorker, the remaining few deadlock cycles found by the tool
are all false positives caused by not understanding the effect of calls
to func variables.
The enlistWorker -> wakep call was intended only as a performance
optimization, it rarely executes, and if it does execute at just the
wrong time it can (and plausibly did) cause the deadlock we saw.
Comment it out, to avoid the potential deadlock.
Fixes #19112.
Unfixes #14179.
Change-Id: I6f7e10b890b991c11e79fab7aeefaf70b5d5a07b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/37093
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/37022
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <[email protected]>
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…to avoid possible deadlock
We have seen one instance of a production job suddenly spinning to
100% CPU and becoming unresponsive. In that one instance, a SIGQUIT
was sent after 328 minutes of spinning, and the stacks showed a single
goroutine in "IO wait (scan)" state.
Looking for things that might get stuck if a goroutine got stuck in
scanning a stack, we found that injectglist does:
lock(&sched.lock)
var n int
for n = 0; glist != nil; n++ {
gp := glist
glist = gp.schedlink.ptr()
casgstatus(gp, _Gwaiting, _Grunnable)
globrunqput(gp)
}
unlock(&sched.lock)
and that casgstatus spins on gp.atomicstatus until the _Gscan bit goes
away. Essentially, this code locks sched.lock and then while holding
sched.lock, waits to lock gp.atomicstatus.
The code that is doing the scan is:
if castogscanstatus(gp, s, s|_Gscan) {
if !gp.gcscandone {
scanstack(gp, gcw)
gp.gcscandone = true
}
restartg(gp)
break loop
}
More analysis showed that scanstack can, in a rare case, end up
calling back into code that acquires sched.lock. For example:
runtime.scanstack at proc.go:866
calls runtime.gentraceback at mgcmark.go:842
calls runtime.scanstack$1 at traceback.go:378
calls runtime.scanframeworker at mgcmark.go:819
calls runtime.scanblock at mgcmark.go:904
calls runtime.greyobject at mgcmark.go:1221
calls (*runtime.gcWork).put at mgcmark.go:1412
calls (*runtime.gcControllerState).enlistWorker at mgcwork.go:127
calls runtime.wakep at mgc.go:632
calls runtime.startm at proc.go:1779
acquires runtime.sched.lock at proc.go:1675
This path was found with an automated deadlock-detecting tool.
There are many such paths but they all go through enlistWorker -> wakep.
The evidence strongly suggests that one of these paths is what caused
the deadlock we observed. We're running those jobs with
GOTRACEBACK=crash now to try to get more information if it happens
again.
Further refinement and analysis shows that if we drop the wakep call
from enlistWorker, the remaining few deadlock cycles found by the tool
are all false positives caused by not understanding the effect of calls
to func variables.
The enlistWorker -> wakep call was intended only as a performance
optimization, it rarely executes, and if it does execute at just the
wrong time it can (and plausibly did) cause the deadlock we saw.
Comment it out, to avoid the potential deadlock.
Fixes golang#19112.
Unfixes golang#14179.
Change-Id: I6f7e10b890b991c11e79fab7aeefaf70b5d5a07b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/37093
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/37022
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <[email protected]>
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Currently the GC doesn't always wake up idle Ps, and hence may not take full advantage of idle marking during the concurrent mark phase. This can happen during mark 2 because mark 1 completion preempts all workers; if the Ps running those workers have nothing else to do they will simply park, and there's no mechanism to wake them up after we allow mark workers to start again. It's possible this can happen during mark 1 as well, though it may be since we allow mark workers to run before starting the world for mark 1 that all of the Ps start running.
/cc @RLH
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