10 Reduces pause time by ~25% relative to tip and by ~50% relative to Go 1.5.1

go-review.googlesource.com posted by gopher 3094 days ago  

Currently one of the steps of STW mark termination is to loop (in parallel) over all spans to find objects with finalizers in order to mark all objects reachable from these objects and to treat the finalizer special as a root. Unfortunately, even if there are no finalizers at all, this loop takes roughly 1 ms/heap GB/core, so multi-gigabyte heaps can quickly push our STW time past 10ms. Fix this by moving this scan from mark termination to concurrent scan, where it can run in parallel with mutators. The loop itself could also be optimized, but this cost is small compared to concurrent marking.

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