perf(gc): survival-aware nursery pacing, 4 MB floor on the existing influx ladder (includes #11612) - #11645
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change revises per-thread nursery-cap pacing and changes how regex operation scratch is accounted and reused. It adds tests for cap adjustment, scratch budgets, and regex searches using lent or owned buffers. ChangesRegex Scratch Accounting
Nursery Pacing
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Other Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change has two bounded 32-bit issues: large nursery settings can produce a smaller cap than configured, and scratch-budget tests use incorrect byte sizes. Correcting these localized issues is recommended; no broader merge-blocking failure is established. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The expanded regex scratch-cache path admits more expressions to growth that is not checked against the memory limit before allocation. Oversized retained scratch could affect later searches on the same thread. No new privileges or external interfaces were identified, but exhaustion inputs and recovery behavior remain incompletely established. Retained concerns
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… grow the lent registers to a fixed bound Regex operation scratch (perex_memory::Buffer / Reservation: the owned search path's match buffers, compile scratch, KMP failure tables, replacer argument slots) is freed by the operation that allocated it and bounded by that operation's MemoryBudget. Reporting it through gc_note_external_side_alloc/free put every per-call release into GC_EXTERNAL_SIDE_DRAINED_SINCE_FULL, which old-reclaim holds as pressure until the next full, so a loop over a program with more than 32 registers (dotenv's LINE has 42) ran a full mark-sweep every few hundred calls on bytes no collection could free. The lent per-thread scratch cell now grows its registers on demand up to LENT_REGISTERS = 1024 (8 KiB per thread), so such programs stop building per-call buffers at all. Programs past the bound keep the owned path. Subject-proportional storage (replace Spans, native piece records) is unchanged and still reported. Part of #11549
…er of the base The scavenge nursery cap's influx-driven ladder (#7377) now counts in quarters of the base cap and powers on at a quarter of it: 4 MB instead of 16 MB. A thread stays there while its minors find little alive and climbs toward the unchanged 64 MB top while survivor influx stays above 4% of the cap, with the same debounced 4%/1% band. A move now takes every step the one-step rule would take in a row on the same reading, so a survivor-heavy program settles at the size it settled at before without two extra minors per step. The landing is inside the dead band, so it cannot oscillate. The survivor target, the promoted-cohort floor, the allocation-census seed point and the JSON-leaf gate stay keyed on the 16 MB base: they measure lifetimes in bytes allocated, which a smaller Eden must not shorten. Part of #11549.
…rs inventory #11612 stops regex operation scratch from reporting to GC_EXTERNAL_SIDE_ALLOC_PENDING / GC_EXTERNAL_SIDE_LIVE_BYTES, so the reachability walk no longer reaches them from a registered scanner and gc_runtime_root_holders.py flags both as new rule-T holders. They are usize byte counters and cannot hold a GC pointer.
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Review comments at @crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tenuring.rs:
- Around line 407-408: Update the constant-band calculation in the tenuring
logic to convert scale to a base multiplier before saturating, avoiding
premature overflow on ILP32. Preserve the intended 2 GiB ceiling when the
nursery cap is 512 MiB and scale is 16; do not rely on later object-size
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- Line 71: Update the live-byte and peak-byte assertions and the Buffer
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| let constant_band = gc_scavenge_nursery_cap_bytes().saturating_mul(scale as usize) | ||
| / NURSERY_CAP_SCALE_UNIT as usize; |
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Apply saturation after converting the scale to a base multiplier.
On supported ILP32 targets, PERRY_GC_SCAVENGE_NURSERY_MB=512 reaches this calculation. At scale 16, the current code saturates 512 MiB × 16 to u32::MAX before dividing by 4. It therefore returns about 1 GiB instead of the 2 GiB ceiling. Object-size denomination happens afterward and does not restore the lost capacity. Old-generation pressure can mask the issue only when it is larger than this reduced term.
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- let constant_band = gc_scavenge_nursery_cap_bytes().saturating_mul(scale as usize)
- / NURSERY_CAP_SCALE_UNIT as usize;
+ let base = gc_scavenge_nursery_cap_bytes();
+ let constant_band = if scale < NURSERY_CAP_SCALE_UNIT {
+ base / (NURSERY_CAP_SCALE_UNIT / scale) as usize
+ } else {
+ base.saturating_mul((scale / NURSERY_CAP_SCALE_UNIT) as usize)
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| let constant_band = gc_scavenge_nursery_cap_bytes().saturating_mul(scale as usize) | |
| / NURSERY_CAP_SCALE_UNIT as usize; | |
| let base = gc_scavenge_nursery_cap_bytes(); | |
| let constant_band = if scale < NURSERY_CAP_SCALE_UNIT { | |
| base / (NURSERY_CAP_SCALE_UNIT / scale) as usize | |
| } else { | |
| base.saturating_mul((scale / NURSERY_CAP_SCALE_UNIT) as usize) | |
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Update the constant-band calculation in the tenuring logic to convert scale to a
base multiplier before saturating, avoiding premature overflow on ILP32.
Preserve the intended 2 GiB ceiling when the nursery cap is 512 MiB and scale is
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| let buffer = Buffer::<usize>::new(&memory, 4096).expect("fits the budget"); | ||
| assert_eq!(buffer.len(), 4096); | ||
| assert_eq!(memory.live_bytes(), 4096 * 8, "the budget still sees it"); |
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Use the target’s usize size in budget assertions.
On 32-bit targets, usize occupies four bytes, not eight. (doc.rust-lang.org) The live and peak assertions therefore fail. The allocation at Line 82 also fits the budget instead of exceeding it.
Use std::mem::size_of::<usize>() in all three expressions.
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- assert_eq!(memory.live_bytes(), 4096 * 8, "the budget still sees it");
+ assert_eq!(memory.live_bytes(), 4096 * std::mem::size_of::<usize>(), "the budget still sees it");
- assert_eq!(memory.peak_bytes(), 4096 * 8);
+ assert_eq!(memory.peak_bytes(), 4096 * std::mem::size_of::<usize>());
- assert!(Buffer::<usize>::new(&memory, (1 << 20) / 8 + 1).is_err());
+ assert!(Buffer::<usize>::new(&memory, (1 << 20) / std::mem::size_of::<usize>() + 1).is_err());Also applies to: 75-75, 82-82
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line 71:
Update the live-byte and peak-byte assertions and the Buffer allocation size in
the runtime-roots test to use std::mem::size_of::<usize>() instead of assuming
usize is eight bytes. Preserve the existing expected counts and budget-exceeded
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Part of #11549
Owner-accepted trade, 2026-09-30. The regressions are tracked in #11699. The owner decided, verbatim: "land 11645 now, but let's have an issue for the small regression with as many details as we can right now". The rows that are worse than main are listed below. None of them is a correctness problem.
Head
356e189a3: five commits on main5fbc2c3b0, which includes #11668, #11676, #11701, the P4 shapes series and #11706. The numbers below were measured on034b1ea38, one rebase earlier; the move to5fbc2c3b0was conflict-free and did not touch this PR's files. The five commits:#11668 is merged, so its commits are no longer in this PR.
What it does
The scavenge nursery cap's influx ladder now starts at 4 MB, a quarter of the 16 MB base. It climbs toward the unchanged 64 MB top only while survivor influx stays above 4% of the cap. A ladder move takes every step the one-step rule would take on the same reading, so survivor-heavy programs settle where they used to, two minors in. The survivor target, the promoted-cohort floor and the census seed point stay on the 16 MB base.
Numbers
All runs were on perrymaster: Linux x86_64, Zen 4,
--release,PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1, THP off (MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP=0, 4 KiB accounting), and under the shared bench lock/tmp/perry-bench-lock.d.perf stat -e instructions:u. Package and loop rows are per iteration, from a two-N differential (median of 3 at n1, median of 11 at n2). Fixed-size rows are totals./usr/bin/time %M, median of 11, arms interleaved.PERRY_GC_DIAG=1.Regressed rows, re-measured on the final base (main
034b1ea38against this head1412ce8f2):What #11676 changed:
The full table on the previous base (main
7fa094cb4against the same five commits,0cce8784f), which is what the owner accepted:Why each row regressed, what was tried, and the candidate next steps are all in #11699. In short:
Correctness
RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test --release -p perry-runtime(codegen-units 16):356e189a3(on5fbc2c3b0): 4790 passed, 0 failed, 5 ignored. The count is lower because main's P4 shapes series retired some tests.1412ce8f2: 4841 passed, 0 failed.427728113: 4813 passed, 1 failed. The failure wasturnloop_net::tests::an_unresolvable_hostname_reports_enotfound_on_getaddrinfo, which passed 3/3 on rerun and passes on this head. I read it as a DNS timing flake on the loaded host.PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED, rate 0.05,PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1andPERRY_GC_DIAG=1, withretired_setchecked armed on every run and output compared to Node 26.5.1.427728113, 200 seeds each: dotenv@18.0.1, qs@6.16.0, moment@2.31.0 and binary-trees (n=10) all 200/200. moment is clean now that fix(codegen): root the function across Func.prototype.x = <call> (#11635) #11639 is on main.1412ce8f2, 50 seeds each: dotenv, moment, qs and binary-trees all 50/50, armed on every run.356e189a3(rebased onto5fbc2c3b0), 50 seeds each: dotenv, moment, qs and binary-trees all 50/50, armed on every run.PERRY_SKIP_BUILD=1 PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1,--filter test_gap_with gc / array / regex): on1412ce8f2against main034b1ea38, 203 tests per arm:test_gap_11258_eventemitter_async_resource_subclass_gc: COMPILE_FAIL on main, PASS on the PR. Nothing in this diff touches that compile path, so I read it as compile-time variance on the loaded host, not a fix.cargo fmt --all -- --checkOK.scripts/check_file_size.shOK.scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.pyOK.SKIP_COMPILE_GATES=1 scripts/run_lint_gates.shon427728113: 105 of 107 pass. The compile tier was not run. The two failures are known and not caused by this PR: public-baseline freshness, andcargo xwinmissing on the host.git diff --statwas clean afterwards. The rebase onto034b1ea38was conflict-free and did not touch this PR's files.Not run
427728113, and the diff is identical. fmt, file-size and root-holders were re-run on356e189a3and pass.5fbc2c3b0. main's P4 shape-only GC flip could move the numbers.cargo testbeyondperry-runtime, the lint compile tier, and the Windowscargo xwin check.7fa094cb4.Summary by CodeRabbit