On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:18:02 GMT, Serguei Spitsyn <[email protected]> wrote:

>> This update removes a significant performance overhead when an application 
>> running millions of virtual threads is started with the JDWP agent but 
>> debugger has not been attached. The overhead is 4X-6X slowdown.
>> The tested app normally (without debug agent) takes around 3+ seconds. With 
>> debug agent enabled it takes 14 seconds and more. The performance overhead 
>> is caused by the `jvmti_yield_cleanup()` recursively calling 
>> `JvmtiExport::continuation_yield_cleanup()`. The reason of this overhead is 
>> because the function `JvmtiExport::can_post_frame_pop()` is used to identify 
>> a need for the JVMTI cleanup which is not precise and triggers unneeded work 
>> when debugger has not been attached yet. The fix is to trigger  the JVMTI 
>> cleanup with new function: `bool JvmtiExport::has_frame_pops(JavaThread* 
>> thread)`.
>> 
>> Testing:
>> - Insure the 4X-6X slowdown is gone for an application running millions of 
>> virtual threads and started with JDWP agent
>> - Mach5 tiers 1-6 are all passed
>
> Serguei Spitsyn has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   review: remove unneeded condition from invalidate_jvmti_stack()

Marked as reviewed by lmesnik (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27403#pullrequestreview-3265088332

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