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runtime: perform concurrent stack re-scanning #17505

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aclements opened this issue Oct 18, 2016 · 5 comments
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runtime: perform concurrent stack re-scanning #17505

aclements opened this issue Oct 18, 2016 · 5 comments
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As a counter-proposal to #17503, we could improve STW times by performing stack re-scanning concurrently. I'm not actually proposing this, but I wrote a whole design doc before realizing a simpler approach would let us completely eliminate stack re-scanning. This issue is a place to put that design doc.
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CL https://golang.org/cl/31360 mentions this issue.

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/cc @RLH @rhysh

@quentinmit quentinmit added the NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. label Oct 20, 2016
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rhysh commented Oct 24, 2016

Thanks for playing this out, @aclements. I agree that the approach in #17503 is much simpler—to understand, to reason about, to implement. The transitive mark write barrier seems like it would invite tail latency bugs, which would be hard to diagnose and to work around.

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@rhysh, thanks for the suggestion in the first place. :) Writing out this design in depth is what led me to #17503 (which is not as simple as it sounds to implement, but is very nearly done anyway).

gopherbot pushed a commit to golang/proposal that referenced this issue Oct 24, 2016
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design: proposal for concurrent stack re-scanning
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Updates golang/go#17505.

Change-Id: I353edb79d23b1ef1a6bab57485cfd74089b67fa0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/31360
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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Closing, since we're going with #17503 instead of this.

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