Given that signleton classes don't have an allocator,
we can re-use these bytes to store the attached object
in `rb_classext_struct` without making it larger.
Right now the attached object is stored as an instance variable
and all the call sites that either get or set it have to know how it's
stored.
It's preferable to hide this implementation detail behind accessors
so that it is easier to change how it's stored.
This commit moves the classpath (and tmp_classpath) from instance
variables to the rb_classext_t. This improves performance as we no
longer need to set an instance variable when assigning a classpath to
a class.
I benchmarked with the following script:
```ruby
name = :MyClass
puts(Benchmark.measure do
10_000_000.times do |i|
Object.const_set(name, Class.new)
Object.send(:remove_const, name)
end
end)
```
Before this patch:
```
5.440119 0.025264 5.465383 ( 5.467105)
```
After this patch:
```
4.889646 0.028325 4.917971 ( 4.942678)
```
Count how many "variations" each class creates. A "variation" is a a
unique ordering of instance variables on a particular class. This can
also be thought of as a branch in the shape tree.
For example, the following Foo class will have 2 variations:
```ruby
class Foo ; end
Foo.new.instance_variable_set(:@a, 1) # case 1: creates one variation
Foo.new.instance_variable_set(:@b, 1) # case 2: creates another variation
foo = Foo.new
foo.instance_variable_set(:@a, 1) # does not create a new variation
foo.instance_variable_set(:@b, 1) # does not create a new variation (a continuation of the variation in case 1)
```
We will use this number to limit the amount of shapes that a class can
create and fallback to using a hash iv lookup.
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
This commit adds a `capacity` field to shapes, and adds shape
transitions whenever an object's capacity changes. Objects which are
allocated out of a bigger size pool will also make a transition from the
root shape to the shape with the correct capacity for their size pool
when they are allocated.
This commit will allow us to remove numiv from objects completely, and
will also mean we can guarantee that if two objects share shapes, their
IVs are in the same positions (an embedded and extended object cannot
share shapes). This will enable us to implement ivar sets in YJIT using
object shapes.
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
* Avoid RCLASS_IV_TBL in marshal.c
* Avoid RCLASS_IV_TBL for class names
* Avoid RCLASS_IV_TBL for autoload
* Avoid RCLASS_IV_TBL for class variables
* Avoid copying RCLASS_IV_TBL onto ICLASSes
* Use object shapes for Class and Module IVs
Before object shapes, we were using class serial to invalidate
inline caches. Now that we use shape_id for inline cache keys,
the class serial is unnecessary.
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
Object Shapes is used for accessing instance variables and representing the
"frozenness" of objects. Object instances have a "shape" and the shape
represents some attributes of the object (currently which instance variables are
set and the "frozenness"). Shapes form a tree data structure, and when a new
instance variable is set on an object, that object "transitions" to a new shape
in the shape tree. Each shape has an ID that is used for caching. The shape
structure is independent of class, so objects of different types can have the
same shape.
For example:
```ruby
class Foo
def initialize
# Starts with shape id 0
@a = 1 # transitions to shape id 1
@b = 1 # transitions to shape id 2
end
end
class Bar
def initialize
# Starts with shape id 0
@a = 1 # transitions to shape id 1
@b = 1 # transitions to shape id 2
end
end
foo = Foo.new # `foo` has shape id 2
bar = Bar.new # `bar` has shape id 2
```
Both `foo` and `bar` instances have the same shape because they both set
instance variables of the same name in the same order.
This technique can help to improve inline cache hits as well as generate more
efficient machine code in JIT compilers.
This commit also adds some methods for debugging shapes on objects. See
`RubyVM::Shape` for more details.
For more context on Object Shapes, see [Feature: #18776]
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
Co-Authored-By: Eileen M. Uchitelle <eileencodes@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: John Hawthorn <john@hawthorn.email>
Object Shapes is used for accessing instance variables and representing the
"frozenness" of objects. Object instances have a "shape" and the shape
represents some attributes of the object (currently which instance variables are
set and the "frozenness"). Shapes form a tree data structure, and when a new
instance variable is set on an object, that object "transitions" to a new shape
in the shape tree. Each shape has an ID that is used for caching. The shape
structure is independent of class, so objects of different types can have the
same shape.
For example:
```ruby
class Foo
def initialize
# Starts with shape id 0
@a = 1 # transitions to shape id 1
@b = 1 # transitions to shape id 2
end
end
class Bar
def initialize
# Starts with shape id 0
@a = 1 # transitions to shape id 1
@b = 1 # transitions to shape id 2
end
end
foo = Foo.new # `foo` has shape id 2
bar = Bar.new # `bar` has shape id 2
```
Both `foo` and `bar` instances have the same shape because they both set
instance variables of the same name in the same order.
This technique can help to improve inline cache hits as well as generate more
efficient machine code in JIT compilers.
This commit also adds some methods for debugging shapes on objects. See
`RubyVM::Shape` for more details.
For more context on Object Shapes, see [Feature: #18776]
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
Co-Authored-By: Eileen M. Uchitelle <eileencodes@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: John Hawthorn <john@hawthorn.email>
Previously, we would build a new `superclasses` array for each class,
even though for all immediate subclasses of a class, the array is
identical.
This avoids duplicating the arrays on leaf classes (those without
subclasses) by calculating and storing a "superclasses including self"
array on a class when it's first inherited and sharing that among all
superclasses.
An additional trick used is that the "superclass array including self"
is valid as "self"'s superclass array. It just has it's own class at the
end. We can use this to avoid an extra pointer of storage and can use
one bit of a flag to track that we've "upgraded" the array.
Previously when checking ancestors, we would walk all the way up the
ancestry chain checking each parent for a matching class or module.
I believe this was especially unfriendly to CPU cache since for each
step we need to check two cache lines (the class and class ext).
This check is used quite often in:
* case statements
* rescue statements
* Calling protected methods
* Class#is_a?
* Module#===
* Module#<=>
I believe it's most common to check a class against a parent class, to
this commit aims to improve that (unfortunately does not help checking
for an included Module).
This is done by storing on each class the number and an array of all
parent classes, in order (BasicObject is at index 0). Using this we can
check whether a class is a subclass of another in constant time since we
know the location to expect it in the hierarchy.
On 32-bit systems, VWA causes class_serial to not be aligned (it only
guarantees 4 byte alignment but class_serial is 8 bytes and requires 8
byte alignment). This commit uses a hack to allocate class_serial
through malloc. Once VWA allocates with 8 byte alignment in the future,
we will revert this commit.
Updating RCLASS_PARENT_SUBCLASSES and RCLASS_MODULE_SUBCLASSES while
compacting can trigger the read barrier. This commit makes
RCLASS_SUBCLASSES a doubly linked list with a dedicated head object so
that we can add and remove entries from the list without having to touch
an object in the Ruby heap
With RVARGC we always store the rb_classext_t in the same slot as the
RClass struct that refers to it. So we don't need to store the pointer
or access through the pointer anymore and can switch the RCLASS_EXT
macro to use an offset
Redo of 34a2acdac7 and
931138b006 which were reverted.
GitHub PR #4340.
This change implements a cache for class variables. Previously there was
no cache for cvars. Cvar access is slow due to needing to travel all the
way up th ancestor tree before returning the cvar value. The deeper the
ancestor tree the slower cvar access will be.
The benefits of the cache are more visible with a higher number of
included modules due to the way Ruby looks up class variables. The
benchmark here includes 26 modules and shows with the cache, this branch
is 6.5x faster when accessing class variables.
```
compare-ruby: ruby 3.1.0dev (2021-03-15T06:22:34Z master 9e5105c) [x86_64-darwin19]
built-ruby: ruby 3.1.0dev (2021-03-15T12:12:44Z add-cache-for-clas.. c6be009) [x86_64-darwin19]
| |compare-ruby|built-ruby|
|:--------|-----------:|---------:|
|vm_cvar | 5.681M| 36.980M|
| | -| 6.51x|
```
Benchmark.ips calling `ActiveRecord::Base.logger` from within a Rails
application. ActiveRecord::Base.logger has 71 ancestors. The more
ancestors a tree has, the more clear the speed increase. IE if Base had
only one ancestor we'd see no improvement. This benchmark is run on a
vanilla Rails application.
Benchmark code:
```ruby
require "benchmark/ips"
require_relative "config/environment"
Benchmark.ips do |x|
x.report "logger" do
ActiveRecord::Base.logger
end
end
```
Ruby 3.0 master / Rails 6.1:
```
Warming up --------------------------------------
logger 155.251k i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
```
Ruby 3.0 with cvar cache / Rails 6.1:
```
Warming up --------------------------------------
logger 1.546M i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
logger 14.857M (± 4.8%) i/s - 74.198M in 5.006202s
```
Lastly we ran a benchmark to demonstate the difference between master
and our cache when the number of modules increases. This benchmark
measures 1 ancestor, 30 ancestors, and 100 ancestors.
Ruby 3.0 master:
```
Warming up --------------------------------------
1 module 1.231M i/100ms
30 modules 432.020k i/100ms
100 modules 145.399k i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
1 module 12.210M (± 2.1%) i/s - 61.553M in 5.043400s
30 modules 4.354M (± 2.7%) i/s - 22.033M in 5.063839s
100 modules 1.434M (± 2.9%) i/s - 7.270M in 5.072531s
Comparison:
1 module: 12209958.3 i/s
30 modules: 4354217.8 i/s - 2.80x (± 0.00) slower
100 modules: 1434447.3 i/s - 8.51x (± 0.00) slower
```
Ruby 3.0 with cvar cache:
```
Warming up --------------------------------------
1 module 1.641M i/100ms
30 modules 1.655M i/100ms
100 modules 1.620M i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
1 module 16.279M (± 3.8%) i/s - 82.038M in 5.046923s
30 modules 15.891M (± 3.9%) i/s - 79.459M in 5.007958s
100 modules 16.087M (± 3.6%) i/s - 81.005M in 5.041931s
Comparison:
1 module: 16279458.0 i/s
100 modules: 16087484.6 i/s - same-ish: difference falls within error
30 modules: 15891406.2 i/s - same-ish: difference falls within error
```
Co-authored-by: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
This change implements a cache for class variables. Previously there was
no cache for cvars. Cvar access is slow due to needing to travel all the
way up th ancestor tree before returning the cvar value. The deeper the
ancestor tree the slower cvar access will be.
The benefits of the cache are more visible with a higher number of
included modules due to the way Ruby looks up class variables. The
benchmark here includes 26 modules and shows with the cache, this branch
is 6.5x faster when accessing class variables.
```
compare-ruby: ruby 3.1.0dev (2021-03-15T06:22:34Z master 9e5105ca45) [x86_64-darwin19]
built-ruby: ruby 3.1.0dev (2021-03-15T12:12:44Z add-cache-for-clas.. c6be0093ae) [x86_64-darwin19]
| |compare-ruby|built-ruby|
|:--------|-----------:|---------:|
|vm_cvar | 5.681M| 36.980M|
| | -| 6.51x|
```
Benchmark.ips calling `ActiveRecord::Base.logger` from within a Rails
application. ActiveRecord::Base.logger has 71 ancestors. The more
ancestors a tree has, the more clear the speed increase. IE if Base had
only one ancestor we'd see no improvement. This benchmark is run on a
vanilla Rails application.
Benchmark code:
```ruby
require "benchmark/ips"
require_relative "config/environment"
Benchmark.ips do |x|
x.report "logger" do
ActiveRecord::Base.logger
end
end
```
Ruby 3.0 master / Rails 6.1:
```
Warming up --------------------------------------
logger 155.251k i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
```
Ruby 3.0 with cvar cache / Rails 6.1:
```
Warming up --------------------------------------
logger 1.546M i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
logger 14.857M (± 4.8%) i/s - 74.198M in 5.006202s
```
Lastly we ran a benchmark to demonstate the difference between master
and our cache when the number of modules increases. This benchmark
measures 1 ancestor, 30 ancestors, and 100 ancestors.
Ruby 3.0 master:
```
Warming up --------------------------------------
1 module 1.231M i/100ms
30 modules 432.020k i/100ms
100 modules 145.399k i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
1 module 12.210M (± 2.1%) i/s - 61.553M in 5.043400s
30 modules 4.354M (± 2.7%) i/s - 22.033M in 5.063839s
100 modules 1.434M (± 2.9%) i/s - 7.270M in 5.072531s
Comparison:
1 module: 12209958.3 i/s
30 modules: 4354217.8 i/s - 2.80x (± 0.00) slower
100 modules: 1434447.3 i/s - 8.51x (± 0.00) slower
```
Ruby 3.0 with cvar cache:
```
Warming up --------------------------------------
1 module 1.641M i/100ms
30 modules 1.655M i/100ms
100 modules 1.620M i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
1 module 16.279M (± 3.8%) i/s - 82.038M in 5.046923s
30 modules 15.891M (± 3.9%) i/s - 79.459M in 5.007958s
100 modules 16.087M (± 3.6%) i/s - 81.005M in 5.041931s
Comparison:
1 module: 16279458.0 i/s
100 modules: 16087484.6 i/s - same-ish: difference falls within error
30 modules: 15891406.2 i/s - same-ish: difference falls within error
```
Co-authored-by: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
iv_index_tbl manages instance variable indexes (ID -> index).
This data structure should be synchronized with other ractors
so introduce some VM locks.
This patch also introduced atomic ivar cache used by
set/getinlinecache instructions. To make updating ivar cache (IVC),
we changed iv_index_tbl data structure to manage (ID -> entry)
and an entry points serial and index. IVC points to this entry so
that cache update becomes atomically.
Before this commit, iclasses were "shady", or not protected by write
barriers. Because of that, the GC needs to spend more time marking these
objects than otherwise.
Applications that make heavy use of modules should see reduction in GC
time as they have a significant number of live iclasses on the heap.
- Put logic for iclass method table ownership into a function
- Remove calls to WB_UNPROTECT and insert write barriers for iclasses
This commit relies on the following invariant: for any non oirigin
iclass `I`, `RCLASS_M_TBL(I) == RCLASS_M_TBL(RBasic(I)->klass)`. This
invariant did not hold prior to 98286e9 for classes and modules that
have prepended modules.
[Feature #16984]
98286e9850 made it so that
`Module#include` allocates an origin iclass on each use. Since `include`
is widely used, the extra allocation can contribute significantly to
memory usage.
Instead of always allocating in anticipation of prepend, this change
takes a different approach. The new setup inserts a origin iclass into
the super chains of all the children of the module when prepend happens
for the first time.
rb_ensure_origin is made static again since now that adding an origin
now means walking over all usages, we want to limit the number of places
where we do it.
This fixes various issues when a module is included in or prepended
to a module or class, and then refined, or refined and then included
or prepended to a module or class.
Implement by renaming ensure_origin to rb_ensure_origin, making it
non-static, and calling it when refining a module.
Fix Module#initialize_copy to handle origins correctly. Previously,
Module#initialize_copy did not handle origins correctly. For example,
this code:
```ruby
module B; end
class A
def b; 2 end
prepend B
end
a = A.dup.new
class A
def b; 1 end
end
p a.b
```
Printed 1 instead of 2. This is because the super chain for
a.singleton_class was:
```
a.singleton_class
A.dup
B(iclass)
B(iclass origin)
A(origin) # not A.dup(origin)
```
The B iclasses would not be modified, so the includer entry would be
still be set to A and not A.dup.
This modifies things so that if the class/module has an origin,
all iclasses between the class/module and the origin are duplicated
and have the correct includer entry set, and the correct origin
is created.
This requires other changes to make sure all tests still pass:
* rb_undef_methods_from doesn't automatically handle classes with
origins, so pass it the origin for Comparable when undefing
methods in Complex. This fixed a failure in the Complex tests.
* When adding a method, the method cache was not cleared
correctly if klass has an origin. Clear the method cache for
the klass before switching to the origin of klass. This fixed
failures in the autoload tests related to overridding require,
without breaking the optimization tests. Also clear the method
cache for both the module and origin when removing a method.
* Module#include? is fixed to skip origin iclasses.
* Refinements are fixed to use the origin class of the module that
has an origin.
* RCLASS_REFINED_BY_ANY is removed as it was only used in a single
place and is no longer needed.
* Marshal#dump is fixed to skip iclass origins.
* rb_method_entry_make is fixed to handled overridden optimized
methods for modules that have origins.
Fixes [Bug #16852]
If a module has an origin, and that module is included in another
module or class, previously the iclass created for the module had
an origin pointer to the module's origin instead of the iclass's
origin.
Setting the origin pointer correctly requires using a stack, since
the origin iclass is not created until after the iclass itself.
Use a hidden ruby array to implement that stack.
Correctly assigning the origin pointers in the iclass caused a
use-after-free in GC. If a module with an origin is included
in a class, the iclass shares a method table with the module
and the iclass origin shares a method table with module origin.
Mark iclass origin with a flag that notes that even though the
iclass is an origin, it shares a method table, so the method table
should not be garbage collected. The shared method table will be
garbage collected when the module origin is garbage collected.
I've tested that this does not introduce a memory leak.
This change caused a VM assertion failure, which was traced to callable
method entries using the incorrect defined_class. Update
rb_vm_check_redefinition_opt_method and find_defined_class_by_owner
to treat iclass origins different than class origins to avoid this
issue.
This also includes a fix for Module#included_modules to skip
iclasses with origins.
Fixes [Bug #16736]
If a module has an origin, and that module is included in another
module or class, previously the iclass created for the module had
an origin pointer to the module's origin instead of the iclass's
origin.
Setting the origin pointer correctly requires using a stack, since
the origin iclass is not created until after the iclass itself.
Use a hidden ruby array to implement that stack.
Correctly assigning the origin pointers in the iclass caused a
use-after-free in GC. If a module with an origin is included
in a class, the iclass shares a method table with the module
and the iclass origin shares a method table with module origin.
Mark iclass origin with a flag that notes that even though the
iclass is an origin, it shares a method table, so the method table
should not be garbage collected. The shared method table will be
garbage collected when the module origin is garbage collected.
I've tested that this does not introduce a memory leak.
This also includes a fix for Module#included_modules to skip
iclasses with origins.
Fixes [Bug #16736]
According to MSVC manual (*1), cl.exe can skip including a header file
when that:
- contains #pragma once, or
- starts with #ifndef, or
- starts with #if ! defined.
GCC has a similar trick (*2), but it acts more stricter (e. g. there
must be _no tokens_ outside of #ifndef...#endif).
Sun C lacked #pragma once for a looong time. Oracle Developer Studio
12.5 finally implemented it, but we cannot assume such recent version.
This changeset modifies header files so that each of them include
strictly one #ifndef...#endif. I believe this is the most portable way
to trigger compiler optimizations. [Bug #16770]
*1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/preprocessor/once
*2: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cppinternals/Guard-Macros.html
