fix(gc): keep transient side allocations out of the drained-bytes term (#10376) - #10377
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PerryTS#10376) PerryTS#10268's drained-bytes term reconstructs external side bytes that a cheap collection released earlier than a full would have, so the full cadence stays pinned to main's while the parse-boundary band holds the live reading down. Its docstring states the invariant it relies on: the sum can never make old-reclaim fire earlier than main, because "every drained byte is a byte main would still have been counting as live at the same point". Regex match scratch breaks that. `perex_memory`'s `Buffer` and `Reservation`, and the replace fast path's `Spans`, are freed by the operation that allocated them, on the same call, in every build — so main is not holding those bytes either, and there is nothing to reconstruct. Because the term accumulates until a full clears it, a loop of such calls grows it without bound: a 1,000,000-call `.test()` loop manufactured enough pressure for three old-gen cycles, one of them a full that traced a 52 MB live arena and freed 59 KB. The bytes that paid for it were never live at any collection. Those three sites now report their release through `gc_note_external_side_free_transient`, which leaves `external_side_live_bytes` exactly as before and does not touch the drained term. Nothing else changes: Map and Set buffers, the JSON tape and the node-api promise delta keep reporting through `gc_note_external_side_free`, so the cadence PerryTS#10268 measured on `records_array_1m:sparse` is untouched. Measured on the reproducer in PerryTS#10376, same host, release builds, instructions per iteration with the string-building control subtracted: main 33690c5 10,979 gc cycle_starts=3 steps=4485 completions=1 full this commit 8,219 gc cycle_starts=0 steps=0 completions=0 GC falls from 193 to 32 permille of wall, which is what the same probe read before PerryTS#10268 landed.
Eight rounds of allocate-and-release through the transient path must leave `external_side_old_reclaim_pressure_bytes` exactly where it started, while a live transient buffer still reads as pressure like any other. Sabotage-proved: pointing `gc_note_external_side_free_transient` at `gc_note_external_side_free` fails on round 0 with the term 1 MB above the live reading, which is the shape that accumulated into an unproductive full in PerryTS#10376. The sibling test that pins the drained term for retained releases is unaffected, since the two paths are now distinct.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe runtime adds transient external-side release accounting. Regex scratch-buffer and capture-span cleanup uses this accounting. A pressure test verifies that transient releases restore live bytes without increasing old-reclaim pressure. ChangesTransient external-side accounting
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Two gate consequences of the previous commit, kept separate from it. `gc_note_external_side_free_transient`'s only callers are the regex scratch owners, and the workspace pins perry-runtime with `default-features = false`, so the product build (`cargo check -p perry --bins`) has no caller for it and the warnings gate rejected it as dead. Gated to `regex-engine`, as its callers are, along with the test that exercises it. The holder inventory pins the mark-complete -> sweep-entry census window by the hashes of its sources, and `gc/policy.rs` is one of them. Re-audited: the change adds one function that does a saturating subtraction on a thread-local Cell and REMOVES an increment from a mutator free path. No allocation, relocation, collection or JS callback enters the window, no mark/sweep control flow changes, and neither boundary moves. Pin updated with that note.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/tiny_parse_pressure.rs`:
- Around line 527-533: Extend the regex-engine tests around real cleanup paths
to assert drained debt is unchanged: capture GC_EXTERNAL_SIDE_DRAINED_SINCE_FULL
before and after direct Spans replacement, ordinary Reservation replacement, and
large split/compile Buffer operations. Keep the existing live-byte assertions
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| /// Sabotage-proved: pointing `gc_note_external_side_free_transient` at | ||
| /// `gc_note_external_side_free` fails this test on the first iteration's | ||
| /// assertion, with the term 1 MB above the live reading. | ||
| #[cfg(feature = "regex-engine")] | ||
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| fn transient_side_allocations_never_enter_the_drained_debt() { | ||
| use super::super::policy::{ |
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Assert drained pressure after real regex cleanup.
transient_side_allocations_never_enter_the_drained_debt calls the accounting hooks directly. It never constructs Reservation, Buffer, or Spans. Replacing a caller's gc_note_external_side_free_transient with gc_note_external_side_free would still lower live bytes, but it would also increase GC_EXTERNAL_SIDE_DRAINED_SINCE_FULL and can recreate the old-reclaim-pressure regression. Existing regex tests check live-byte cleanup, so they can catch some wrong totals, but they do not check drained debt. Add drained_before == drained_after assertions around real direct replacement (Spans), ordinary replacement (Reservation), and large split/compile (Buffer) paths.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/tiny_parse_pressure.rs` around lines 527 -
533, Extend the regex-engine tests around real cleanup paths to assert drained
debt is unchanged: capture GC_EXTERNAL_SIDE_DRAINED_SINCE_FULL before and after
direct Spans replacement, ordinary Reservation replacement, and large
split/compile Buffer operations. Keep the existing live-byte assertions and
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Withdrawing this — it regresses a large-heap workloadMeasured after opening it, on the
GC goes the wrong way at 700k despite 79 % fewer cycles: share of wall 567‰ → 747‰, The mechanism, and the lesson. Removing the false pressure makes old-reclaim fire later, so each cycle meets a bigger live heap: fewer cycles, but more marking in each and a longer armed-barrier window taxing every write in between. On a workload whose old generation genuinely grows, the transient churn this PR removed was accidentally serving as an allocation-rate proxy — the only signal tracking how fast the program produced garbage. The PR is right about what the drained term means and wrong to assume the pacing survives losing it without a replacement. What still stands. #10376 is unchanged and still a real bug: a million-call Acceptance bar for the replacement, so the next attempt cannot repeat this: it must be measured on Branch stays at Worth recording that this was invisible to every gate: the change is correct, and passes the crate suites, the gap filters and the integration tests. A wall-clock regression of this size on a large-heap workload is not something CI here can see. |
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Fixes #10376.
The bug
#10268's drained-bytes term reconstructs external side bytes that a cheap collection released earlier than a full would have, so the full cadence stays pinned to main's while the parse-boundary band holds the live reading down. Its docstring states the invariant it rests on:
Regex match scratch breaks that.
perex_memory'sBufferandReservation, and the replace fast path'sSpans, are freed by the operation that allocated them, on the same call, in every build. Main is not holding those bytes either, so there is nothing to reconstruct — but the term accumulates them until a full clears it. A loop of such calls grows it without bound.Measured on the reproducer in the issue, a 1,000,000-call
.test()loop:gc-incremental388d15a5db(before #10268's commit)cycle_starts=0 completions=005709427da(that commit)cycle_starts=3 completions=333690c563(main today)cycle_starts=3 completions=3cycle_starts=0 completions=0The full it manufactured reported
trigger=OldGenBytes kind=full steps=1495 wall_us=38243 freed=59176— a pass over a 52 MB live arena that reclaimed 58 KB. The bytes that paid for it were never live at any collection.The fix
The three regex scratch owners report their release through a new
gc_note_external_side_free_transient, which lowersexternal_side_live_bytesexactly as before and does not touch the drained term. Everything else — Map and Set buffers, the JSON tape, the node-api promise delta — keeps reporting throughgc_note_external_side_free, so #10268's cadence is untouched by construction: the tape path cannot observe this change.Checked empirically as well as structurally. A probe modelled on
records_array_1m:sparse(161 parses of a 7,600-record document, touching only the first and last record) reads identically on main and on this branch:cycle_starts=1 steps=7 completions=0, no fulls, GC share 33‰ vs 35‰.The distinction is "was this byte retained past the operation that allocated it", not "who freed it" — a collector-side and a mutator-side release of a retained buffer both still count, which is what the sibling test
a_drained_side_byte_still_pays_old_reclaim_until_the_next_fullpins.Tests
transient_side_allocations_never_enter_the_drained_debtruns eight allocate-and-release rounds through the transient path and asserts the pressure term returns to where it started each time, while a live transient buffer still reads as pressure.Sabotage-proved: pointing
gc_note_external_side_free_transientatgc_note_external_side_freefails it on round 0 with the term 1 MB above the live reading — the exact shape that accumulated into the full.Validation
Local replay on perrymaster (runners are down), on this tree:
cargo build --lockedcargo fmt --all --checkcargo check -p perry-runtime --no-default-features --features full,-D warningscargo check -p perry --bins,-D warningscargo test -p perry-runtime --lib -- --test-threads=1scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.py(+--self-test)scripts/check_file_size.shscripts/run_lint_gates.shThe one failure is
Public benchmark evidence freshness, the long-standing CI-only red on main.Two gate consequences are in their own commit: the new function is
#[cfg(feature = "regex-engine")]because the workspace pins perry-runtime withdefault-features = falseand a product build has no caller for it, and the holder inventory's census-window pin overgc/policy.rswas re-audited and updated — the change adds one saturating subtraction on a thread-local Cell and removes an increment from a mutator free path, with no allocation, relocation, collection or JS callback entering the mark-complete → sweep-entry window.Scope
This does not revert or narrow #10268 for the workload it was measured on. If the pacing owner would rather solve it at the term's definition — bounding the reconstruction by what a collection actually observed live, rather than by who reports the release — that would subsume this, and I'd rather that landed than this. This is the contained version that restores the measured behaviour today.
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RegExpoperations, from generating false garbage-collection pressure.Documentation