Re: [rvm-research] Understanding the ConcMS

Nachshon Cohen O <[email protected]>
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Thanks,

Nachshon
Technion institute of technology, Israel

On May 7, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Rifat Shahriyar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> Have a look at the last few lines of run() method in ControllerCollectorContext.
> 
> Regards
> -
> Rifat
> Australian National University
> 
> 
> On 7/05/13 10:17 PM, Nachshon Cohen O wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to understand the Concurrent Mark Sweep (ConcMS) collector.
>> In this collector, the mutators are stopped for stack-scanning at the beginning of the concurrent gc, and should be resumed before the heap is actually traversed (marking phase).
>> However, I'm not sure where (and how) the mutators are actually resumed.
>> 
>> Looking at the Phases of the algorithm, I'm not sure where step 3 happen.
>> 1. stop the mutators (Phase:prepare-stacks, handled by VM.collection.prepareMutator)
>> 2. scan stacks       (Phase:stacks, handled by VM.scanning.computeThreadsRoots)
>> 3. resume mutators  (at which phase this is done???)
>> 4. Compute the transitive closure over the heap (Phase:concurrent-closure, handled by Plan.controlCollectorContext.requestConcurrentCollection).
>> 
>> Can you please point me at which phase the mutators are resumed, or which function handles it?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Nachshon Cohen
>> Department of computer science,
>> Technion institute of technology, Israel.
>> 
>> 
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