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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-7121547

G1: High number of mispredicted branches while iterating over the marking bitmap

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    • Enhancement
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • P4
    • hs23
    • 7u4
    • hotspot
    • gc
    • b12
    • generic
    • generic
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        While analysing performance data from benchmark runs using the changes in 6484965 (Piggy-back liveness accounting phase on marking) it was observed that there were a high number of mispredicted branches coming from CMTask::do_marking_step().

        Further analysis indicated that these mispredicted branches were the actual call of the BitMap::iterate function. This is caused by a couple of reasons - first BitMap::iterate is defined in the .cpp file and so cannot be inlined.

        We might be able to do better by actually implementing a version of the "iterate" routine using inline-able routines from BitMap and using the object sizes to increase the granularity of the iteration.

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                johnc John Cuthbertson
                johnc John Cuthbertson
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