2 * sgen-conf.h: Tunable parameters and debugging switches.
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22 #ifndef __MONO_SGENCONF_H__
23 #define __MONO_SGENCONF_H__
27 /*Basic defines and static tunables */
29 #if SIZEOF_VOID_P == 4
30 typedef guint32 mword;
32 typedef guint64 mword;
37 * Turning on heavy statistics will turn off the managed allocator and
38 * the managed write barrier.
40 // #define HEAVY_STATISTICS
42 #ifdef HEAVY_STATISTICS
43 #define HEAVY_STAT(x) x
49 * Define this to allow the user to change the nursery size by
50 * specifying its value in the MONO_GC_PARAMS environmental
51 * variable. See mono_gc_base_init for details.
56 * The binary protocol enables logging a lot of the GC ativity in a way that is not very
57 * intrusive and produces a compact file that can be searched using a custom tool. This
58 * option enables very fine-grained binary protocol events, which will make the GC a tiny
59 * bit less efficient even if no binary protocol file is generated.
61 //#define SGEN_HEAVY_BINARY_PROTOCOL
64 * This extends the heavy binary protocol to record the provenance of an object
65 * for every allocation.
67 //#define SGEN_OBJECT_PROVENANCE
70 * This enables checks whenever objects are enqueued in gray queues.
71 * Right now the only check done is that we never enqueue nursery
72 * pointers in the concurrent collector.
74 //#define SGEN_CHECK_GRAY_OBJECT_ENQUEUE
77 * This keeps track of where a gray object queue section is and
78 * whether it is where it should be.
80 //#define SGEN_CHECK_GRAY_OBJECT_SECTIONS
83 * Enable this to check every reference update for null references and whether the update is
84 * made in a worker thread. In only a few cases do we potentially update references by
85 * writing nulls, so we assert in all the cases where it's not allowed. The concurrent
86 * collector's worker thread is not allowed to update references at all, so we also assert
87 * that we're not in the worker thread.
89 //#define SGEN_CHECK_UPDATE_REFERENCE
92 * Define this and use the "xdomain-checks" MONO_GC_DEBUG option to
93 * have cross-domain checks in the write barrier.
95 //#define XDOMAIN_CHECKS_IN_WBARRIER
98 * Define this to get number of objects marked information in the
99 * concurrent GC DTrace probes. Has a small performance impact, so
100 * it's disabled by default.
102 //#define SGEN_COUNT_NUMBER_OF_MAJOR_OBJECTS_MARKED
105 * Object layout statistics gather a histogram of reference locations
106 * over all scanned objects. We use this information to improve GC
107 * descriptors to speed up scanning. This does not provide any
108 * troubleshooting assistance (unless you are troubled in highly
109 * unusual ways) and makes scanning slower.
111 //#define SGEN_OBJECT_LAYOUT_STATISTICS
113 #ifndef SGEN_HEAVY_BINARY_PROTOCOL
114 #ifndef HEAVY_STATISTICS
115 #define MANAGED_ALLOCATION
116 #ifndef XDOMAIN_CHECKS_IN_WBARRIER
117 #define MANAGED_WBARRIER
123 * Maximum level of debug to enable on this build.
124 * Making this a constant enables us to put logging in a lot of places and
125 * not pay its cost on release builds.
127 #define SGEN_MAX_DEBUG_LEVEL 2
130 * Maximum level of asserts to enable on this build.
131 * FIXME replace all magic numbers with defines.
133 #define SGEN_MAX_ASSERT_LEVEL 5
136 #define GC_BITS_PER_WORD (sizeof (mword) * 8)
138 /*Size of the section used by the copying GC. */
139 #define SGEN_SIZEOF_GC_MEM_SECTION ((sizeof (GCMemSection) + 7) & ~7)
142 * to quickly find the head of an object pinned by a conservative
143 * address we keep track of the objects allocated for each
144 * SGEN_SCAN_START_SIZE memory chunk in the nursery or other memory
145 * sections. Larger values have less memory overhead and bigger
146 * runtime cost. 4-8 KB are reasonable values.
148 #define SGEN_SCAN_START_SIZE (4096*2)
151 * Objects bigger then this go into the large object space. This size has a few
152 * constraints. At least two of them must fit into a major heap block. It must also play
153 * well with the run length GC descriptor, which encodes the object size.
155 #define SGEN_MAX_SMALL_OBJ_SIZE 8000
158 * This is the maximum ammount of memory we're willing to waste in order to speed up allocation.
159 * Wastage comes in thre forms:
161 * -when building the nursery fragment list, small regions are discarded;
162 * -when allocating memory from a fragment if it ends up below the threshold, we remove it from the fragment list; and
163 * -when allocating a new tlab, we discard the remaining space of the old one
165 * Increasing this value speeds up allocation but will cause more frequent nursery collections as less space will be used.
166 * Descreasing this value will cause allocation to be slower since we'll have to cycle thru more fragments.
167 * 512 annedoctally keeps wastage under control and doesn't impact allocation performance too much.
169 #define SGEN_MAX_NURSERY_WASTE 512
173 * Minimum allowance for nursery allocations, as a multiple of the size of nursery.
175 * We allow at least this much allocation to happen to the major heap from multiple
176 * minor collections before triggering a major collection.
178 * Bigger values increases throughput by allowing more garbage to sit in the major heap.
179 * Smaller values leads to better memory effiency but more frequent major collections.
181 #define SGEN_DEFAULT_ALLOWANCE_NURSERY_SIZE_RATIO 4.0
183 #define SGEN_MIN_ALLOWANCE_NURSERY_SIZE_RATIO 1.0
184 #define SGEN_MAX_ALLOWANCE_NURSERY_SIZE_RATIO 10.0
187 * Default ratio of memory we want to release in a major collection in relation to the the current heap size.
189 * A major collection target is to free a given amount of memory. This amount is a ratio of the major heap size.
191 * Values above 0.5 cause the heap to agressively grow when it's small and waste memory when it's big.
192 * Lower values will produce more reasonable sized heaps when it's small, but will be suboptimal at large
193 * sizes as they will use a small fraction only.
196 #define SGEN_DEFAULT_SAVE_TARGET_RATIO 0.5
198 #define SGEN_MIN_SAVE_TARGET_RATIO 0.1
199 #define SGEN_MAX_SAVE_TARGET_RATIO 2.0
202 * Configurable cementing parameters.
204 * If there are too many pinned nursery objects with many references
205 * from the major heap, the hash table size must be increased.
207 * The threshold is the number of references from the major heap to a
208 * pinned nursery object which triggers cementing: if there are more
209 * than that number of references, the pinned object is cemented until
210 * the next major collection.
212 #define SGEN_CEMENT_HASH_SHIFT 6
213 #define SGEN_CEMENT_HASH_SIZE (1 << SGEN_CEMENT_HASH_SHIFT)
214 #define SGEN_CEMENT_HASH(hv) (((hv) ^ ((hv) >> SGEN_CEMENT_HASH_SHIFT)) & (SGEN_CEMENT_HASH_SIZE - 1))
215 #define SGEN_CEMENT_THRESHOLD 1000