circuitpython/py/mpstate.h
Damien Tournoud 2dcd745434 py/gc: Speed up incremental GC cycles by tracking the last used block.
In applications that use little memory and run GC regularly, the cost of
the sweep phase quickly becomes prohibitives as the amount of RAM
increases.

On an ESP32-S3 with 2 MB of external SPIRAM, for example, a trivial GC
cycle takes a minimum of 40ms, virtually all of it in the sweep phase.

Similarly, on the UNIX port with 1 GB of heap, a trivial GC takes 47 ms,
again virtually all of it in the sweep phase.

This commit speeds up the sweep phase in the case most of the heap is empty
by keeping track of the ID of the highest block we allocated in an area
since the last GC.

The performance benchmark run on PYBV10 shows between +0 and +2%
improvement across the existing performance tests.  These tests don't
really stress the GC, so they were also run with gc.threshold(30000) and
gc.threshold(10000).  For the 30000 case, performance improved by up to
+10% with this commit.  For the 10000 case, performance improved by at
least +10% on 6 tests, and up to +25%.

Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2023-08-04 17:25:16 +10:00

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#ifndef MICROPY_INCLUDED_PY_MPSTATE_H
#define MICROPY_INCLUDED_PY_MPSTATE_H
#include <stdint.h>
#include "py/mpconfig.h"
#include "py/mpthread.h"
#include "py/misc.h"
#include "py/nlr.h"
#include "py/obj.h"
#include "py/objlist.h"
#include "py/objexcept.h"
// This file contains structures defining the state of the MicroPython
// memory system, runtime and virtual machine. The state is a global
// variable, but in the future it is hoped that the state can become local.
#if MICROPY_PY_SYS_ATTR_DELEGATION
// Must be kept in sync with sys_mutable_keys in modsys.c.
enum {
#if MICROPY_PY_SYS_PATH
MP_SYS_MUTABLE_PATH,
#endif
#if MICROPY_PY_SYS_PS1_PS2
MP_SYS_MUTABLE_PS1,
MP_SYS_MUTABLE_PS2,
#endif
#if MICROPY_PY_SYS_TRACEBACKLIMIT
MP_SYS_MUTABLE_TRACEBACKLIMIT,
#endif
MP_SYS_MUTABLE_NUM,
};
#endif // MICROPY_PY_SYS_ATTR_DELEGATION
// This structure contains dynamic configuration for the compiler.
#if MICROPY_DYNAMIC_COMPILER
typedef struct mp_dynamic_compiler_t {
uint8_t small_int_bits; // must be <= host small_int_bits
uint8_t native_arch;
uint8_t nlr_buf_num_regs;
} mp_dynamic_compiler_t;
extern mp_dynamic_compiler_t mp_dynamic_compiler;
#endif
// These are the values for sched_state
#define MP_SCHED_IDLE (1)
#define MP_SCHED_LOCKED (-1)
#define MP_SCHED_PENDING (0) // 0 so it's a quick check in the VM
typedef struct _mp_sched_item_t {
mp_obj_t func;
mp_obj_t arg;
} mp_sched_item_t;
// This structure holds information about a single contiguous area of
// memory reserved for the memory manager.
typedef struct _mp_state_mem_area_t {
#if MICROPY_GC_SPLIT_HEAP
struct _mp_state_mem_area_t *next;
#endif
byte *gc_alloc_table_start;
size_t gc_alloc_table_byte_len;
#if MICROPY_ENABLE_FINALISER
byte *gc_finaliser_table_start;
#endif
byte *gc_pool_start;
byte *gc_pool_end;
size_t gc_last_free_atb_index;
size_t gc_last_used_block; // The block ID of the highest block allocated in the area
} mp_state_mem_area_t;
// This structure hold information about the memory allocation system.
typedef struct _mp_state_mem_t {
#if MICROPY_MEM_STATS
size_t total_bytes_allocated;
size_t current_bytes_allocated;
size_t peak_bytes_allocated;
#endif
mp_state_mem_area_t area;
int gc_stack_overflow;
MICROPY_GC_STACK_ENTRY_TYPE gc_block_stack[MICROPY_ALLOC_GC_STACK_SIZE];
#if MICROPY_GC_SPLIT_HEAP
// Array that tracks the area for each block on gc_block_stack.
mp_state_mem_area_t *gc_area_stack[MICROPY_ALLOC_GC_STACK_SIZE];
#endif
// This variable controls auto garbage collection. If set to 0 then the
// GC won't automatically run when gc_alloc can't find enough blocks. But
// you can still allocate/free memory and also explicitly call gc_collect.
uint16_t gc_auto_collect_enabled;
#if MICROPY_GC_ALLOC_THRESHOLD
size_t gc_alloc_amount;
size_t gc_alloc_threshold;
#endif
#if MICROPY_GC_SPLIT_HEAP
mp_state_mem_area_t *gc_last_free_area;
#endif
#if MICROPY_PY_GC_COLLECT_RETVAL
size_t gc_collected;
#endif
#if MICROPY_PY_THREAD && !MICROPY_PY_THREAD_GIL
// This is a global mutex used to make the GC thread-safe.
mp_thread_mutex_t gc_mutex;
#endif
} mp_state_mem_t;
// This structure hold runtime and VM information. It includes a section
// which contains root pointers that must be scanned by the GC.
typedef struct _mp_state_vm_t {
//
// CONTINUE ROOT POINTER SECTION
// This must start at the start of this structure and follows
// the state in the mp_state_thread_t structure, continuing
// the root pointer section from there.
//
qstr_pool_t *last_pool;
#if MICROPY_TRACKED_ALLOC
struct _m_tracked_node_t *m_tracked_head;
#endif
// non-heap memory for creating an exception if we can't allocate RAM
mp_obj_exception_t mp_emergency_exception_obj;
// memory for exception arguments if we can't allocate RAM
#if MICROPY_ENABLE_EMERGENCY_EXCEPTION_BUF
#if MICROPY_EMERGENCY_EXCEPTION_BUF_SIZE > 0
// statically allocated buf (needs to be aligned to mp_obj_t)
mp_obj_t mp_emergency_exception_buf[MICROPY_EMERGENCY_EXCEPTION_BUF_SIZE / sizeof(mp_obj_t)];
#else
// dynamically allocated buf
byte *mp_emergency_exception_buf;
#endif
#endif
#if MICROPY_KBD_EXCEPTION
// exception object of type KeyboardInterrupt
mp_obj_exception_t mp_kbd_exception;
#endif
// dictionary with loaded modules (may be exposed as sys.modules)
mp_obj_dict_t mp_loaded_modules_dict;
// dictionary for the __main__ module
mp_obj_dict_t dict_main;
// dictionary for overridden builtins
#if MICROPY_CAN_OVERRIDE_BUILTINS
mp_obj_dict_t *mp_module_builtins_override_dict;
#endif
// Include any root pointers registered with MP_REGISTER_ROOT_POINTER().
#ifndef NO_QSTR
// Only include root pointer definitions when not doing qstr extraction, because
// the qstr extraction stage also generates the root pointers header file.
#include "genhdr/root_pointers.h"
#endif
//
// END ROOT POINTER SECTION
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// pointer and sizes to store interned string data
// (qstr_last_chunk can be root pointer but is also stored in qstr pool)
char *qstr_last_chunk;
size_t qstr_last_alloc;
size_t qstr_last_used;
#if MICROPY_PY_THREAD && !MICROPY_PY_THREAD_GIL
// This is a global mutex used to make qstr interning thread-safe.
mp_thread_mutex_t qstr_mutex;
#endif
#if MICROPY_ENABLE_COMPILER
mp_uint_t mp_optimise_value;
#if MICROPY_EMIT_NATIVE
uint8_t default_emit_opt; // one of MP_EMIT_OPT_xxx
#endif
#endif
// size of the emergency exception buf, if it's dynamically allocated
#if MICROPY_ENABLE_EMERGENCY_EXCEPTION_BUF && MICROPY_EMERGENCY_EXCEPTION_BUF_SIZE == 0
mp_int_t mp_emergency_exception_buf_size;
#endif
#if MICROPY_ENABLE_SCHEDULER
volatile int16_t sched_state;
#if MICROPY_SCHEDULER_STATIC_NODES
// These will usually point to statically allocated memory. They are not
// traced by the GC. They are assumed to be zero'd out before mp_init() is
// called (usually because this struct lives in the BSS).
struct _mp_sched_node_t *sched_head;
struct _mp_sched_node_t *sched_tail;
#endif
// These index sched_queue.
uint8_t sched_len;
uint8_t sched_idx;
#endif
#if MICROPY_ENABLE_VM_ABORT
bool vm_abort;
nlr_buf_t *nlr_abort;
#endif
#if MICROPY_PY_THREAD_GIL
// This is a global mutex used to make the VM/runtime thread-safe.
mp_thread_mutex_t gil_mutex;
#endif
#if MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE
// See mp_map_lookup.
uint8_t map_lookup_cache[MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE_SIZE];
#endif
} mp_state_vm_t;
// This structure holds state that is specific to a given thread.
// Everything in this structure is scanned for root pointers.
typedef struct _mp_state_thread_t {
// Stack top at the start of program
char *stack_top;
#if MICROPY_STACK_CHECK
size_t stack_limit;
#endif
#if MICROPY_ENABLE_PYSTACK
uint8_t *pystack_start;
uint8_t *pystack_end;
uint8_t *pystack_cur;
#endif
// Locking of the GC is done per thread.
uint16_t gc_lock_depth;
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// START ROOT POINTER SECTION
// Everything that needs GC scanning must start here, and
// is followed by state in the mp_state_vm_t structure.
//
mp_obj_dict_t *dict_locals;
mp_obj_dict_t *dict_globals;
nlr_buf_t *nlr_top;
nlr_jump_callback_node_t *nlr_jump_callback_top;
// pending exception object (MP_OBJ_NULL if not pending)
volatile mp_obj_t mp_pending_exception;
// If MP_OBJ_STOP_ITERATION is propagated then this holds its argument.
mp_obj_t stop_iteration_arg;
#if MICROPY_PY_SYS_SETTRACE
mp_obj_t prof_trace_callback;
bool prof_callback_is_executing;
struct _mp_code_state_t *current_code_state;
#endif
} mp_state_thread_t;
// This structure combines the above 3 structures.
// The order of the entries are important for root pointer scanning in the GC to work.
typedef struct _mp_state_ctx_t {
mp_state_thread_t thread;
mp_state_vm_t vm;
mp_state_mem_t mem;
} mp_state_ctx_t;
extern mp_state_ctx_t mp_state_ctx;
#define MP_STATE_VM(x) (mp_state_ctx.vm.x)
#define MP_STATE_MEM(x) (mp_state_ctx.mem.x)
#define MP_STATE_MAIN_THREAD(x) (mp_state_ctx.thread.x)
#if MICROPY_PY_THREAD
extern mp_state_thread_t *mp_thread_get_state(void);
#define MP_STATE_THREAD(x) (mp_thread_get_state()->x)
#define mp_thread_is_main_thread() (mp_thread_get_state() == &mp_state_ctx.thread)
#else
#define MP_STATE_THREAD(x) MP_STATE_MAIN_THREAD(x)
#define mp_thread_is_main_thread() (true)
#endif
#endif // MICROPY_INCLUDED_PY_MPSTATE_H