The free threading build uses QSBR to delay the freeing of dictionary
keys and list arrays when the objects are accessed by multiple threads
in order to allow concurrent reads to proceed with holding the object
lock. The requests are processed in batches to reduce execution
overhead, but for large memory blocks this can lead to excess memory
usage.
Take into account the size of the memory block when deciding when to
process QSBR requests.
Also track the amount of memory being held by QSBR for mimalloc pages. Advance the write sequence if this memory exceeds a limit. Advancing the sequence will allow it to be freed more quickly.
Process the held QSBR items from the "eval breaker", rather than from `_PyMem_FreeDelayed()`. This gives a higher chance that the global read sequence has advanced enough so that items can be freed.
Co-authored-by: Sam Gross <colesbury@gmail.com>
`_Py_qsbr_unregister` is called when the PyThreadState is already
detached, so the access to `tstate->qsbr` isn't safe without locking the
shared mutex. Grab the `struct _qsbr_shared` from the interpreter
instead.
This implements the delayed reuse of mimalloc pages that contain Python
objects in the free-threaded build.
Allocations of the same size class are grouped in data structures called
pages. These are different from operating system pages. For thread-safety, we
want to ensure that memory used to store PyObjects remains valid as long as
there may be concurrent lock-free readers; we want to delay using it for
other size classes, in other heaps, or returning it to the operating system.
When a mimalloc page becomes empty, instead of immediately freeing it, we tag
it with a QSBR goal and insert it into a per-thread state linked list of
pages to be freed. When mimalloc needs a fresh page, we process the queue and
free any still empty pages that are now deemed safe to be freed. Pages
waiting to be freed are still available for allocations of the same size
class and allocating from a page prevent it from being freed. There is
additional logic to handle abandoned pages when threads exit.
This adds a safe memory reclamation scheme based on FreeBSD's "GUS" and
quiescent state based reclamation (QSBR). The API provides a mechanism
for callers to detect when it is safe to free memory that may be
concurrently accessed by readers.
