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improve interaction of incremental mode and finalization

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Really, just improve when majors GCs are forced to trigger
further finalizations. This improvement makes `(collect-garbage)`
followed by `(collect-garbage 'incremental)` move more
reliably into incremental mode.
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Matthew Flatt 2015-11-28 14:06:50 -07:00
parent 71d80bace5
commit a389678556
2 changed files with 12 additions and 5 deletions
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pkgs/racket-doc/scribblings/guide/performance.scrbl
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@ -613,7 +613,10 @@ immediate garbage collection, but instead requests that each minor
collection perform incremental work up to the next major collection.
The request expires with the next major collection. Make a call to
@racket[(collect-garbage 'incremental)] in any periodic task within
an application that needs to be responsive in real time.
an application that needs to be responsive in real time. Force a
full collection with @racket[(collect-garbage)] just before an initial
@racket[(collect-garbage 'incremental)] to initiate incremental mode
from an optimal state.
To check whether incremental mode is use and how it affects pause
times, enable @tt{debug}-level logging output for the

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racket/src/racket/gc2/newgc.c
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@ -5811,6 +5811,9 @@ static void garbage_collect(NewGC *gc, int force_full, int no_full, int switchin
incremental mode has been enabled: */
|| ((gc->since_last_full > FORCE_MAJOR_AFTER_COUNT)
&& !gc->started_incremental)
|| (gc->full_needed_for_finalization
&& !gc->incremental_requested
&& !gc->started_incremental)
/* In incremental mode, GC earlier if we've done everything
that we can do incrementally. */
|| (gc->started_incremental
@ -5823,12 +5826,13 @@ static void garbage_collect(NewGC *gc, int force_full, int no_full, int switchin
return;
}
next_gc_full = gc->gc_full && !gc->started_incremental;
next_gc_full = (gc->gc_full
&& !gc->started_incremental
&& !gc->full_needed_for_finalization);
if (gc->full_needed_for_finalization) {
if (gc->full_needed_for_finalization && gc->gc_full)
gc->full_needed_for_finalization= 0;
gc->gc_full = 1;
}
#ifdef GC_DEBUG_PAGES
if (gc->gc_full == 1) {
GCVERBOSEprintf(gc, "GC_FULL gc: %p MASTER: %p\n", gc, MASTERGC);