[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (JASSIST-163) RuntimeSupport.find2Methods a perf hotspot when proxy's methods are called at higher concurrency

[Shigeru Chiba (JIRA)]

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Shigeru Chiba commented on JASSIST-163:
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bq. The Method object probably came from Class.getDeclaredMethods() or maybe Class.getDeclaredMethod(). Since those calls are thread safe, the entire Method object contents should be in main working memory.

Yes, but being thread safe means that a thread doing synchronization (or accessing a volatile field) can safely use the method according to the memory model of the JVM.  The memory model does not guarantee anything about a thread doing no synchronization.  Is this correct?  We can expect that some thread safety is preserved on real hardware for such a thread that does no synchronization, though.

bq. Would it be possible to support both lazy and eager initialization?

This is a good idea.
                
> RuntimeSupport.find2Methods a perf hotspot when proxy's methods are called at higher concurrency
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JASSIST-163
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JASSIST-163
>             Project: Javassist
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>    Affects Versions: 3.15.0-GA, 3.16.1-GA
>         Environment: hibernate-core 3.6.10.Final
>            Reporter: Nikita Tovstoles
>            Assignee: Shigeru Chiba
>             Fix For: 3.17.0-GA
>
>         Attachments: blocked-threads.png, find2methods-hotspot.png, jassist-163-fix.patch, monitor-backtraces.png, monitor-backtraces.png, Product.java, Product_$$_javassist_0-post-patch.java, Product_$$_javassist_0.java, Tomcat-2012-03-28(2).zip
>
>
> We've been profiling our Hibernate 3.6.10-based app and noticed a perf bottleneck in javassist.util.proxy.RuntimeSupport.find2methods. Unfortunately, this method, which has a synch. block, is being called on
> every invocation of every proxied entity method (see javassist.util.proxy.ProxyFactory.makeForwarder(), called indirectly by
> ProxyFactory.createClass()).
> In our testing, the result is that our service call's latency increases from 33 to 55, 260, 400ms as concurrency increases
> 1-10-20-30 users on a 4-core CPU. At 20 and 30 users 51% of CPU time is spent contending for a monitor in RuntimeSupport.find2methods:
> {code}
>         synchronized (methods) {
>             if (methods[index] == null) {
>                 methods[index + 1] = thisMethod == null ? null
>                                      : findMethod(self, thisMethod, desc);
>                 methods[index] = findSuperMethod(self, superMethod, desc);
>             }
>         }
> {code} 
> Since find2methods merely interrogates class metadata, seems like its return values should be cached (in a ConcurrentMap?) instead of repeatedly executing the above synchronized statement. Instead, currently, it's being called every time (?) a proxied method is executed - see *Invocation Count* in this screen shot:
> https://issues.jboss.org/secure/attachment/12353025/monitor-backtraces.png
> Full [YourKit profile|http://yourkit.com] is [attached as a ZIP archive|^Tomcat-2012-03-28(2).zip]; key screen shots from the snapshot also attached separately

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