runtime: make assists preemptible
Currently, assists are non-preemptible, which means a heavily
assisting G can block other Gs from running. At the beginning of a GC
cycle, it can also delay scang, which will spin until the assist is
done. Since scanning is currently done sequentially, this can
seriously extend the length of the scan phase.
Fix this by making assists preemptible. Since the assist holds work
buffers and runs on the system stack, this must be done cooperatively:
we make gcDrainN return on preemption, and make the assist return from
the system stack and voluntarily Gosched.
This is prerequisite to enlarging the work buffers. Without this
change, the delays and spinning in scang increase significantly.
This has no effect on the go1 benchmarks.
name old time/op new time/op delta
XBenchGarbage-12 5.72ms ± 4% 5.37ms ± 5% -6.11% (p=0.000 n=20+20)
Change-Id: I829e732a0f23b126da633516a1a9ec1a508fdbf1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15894
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>