This change adds a global set of heap statistics which are similar
to existing memory statistics. The purpose of these new statistics
is to be able to read them and get a consistent result without stopping
the world. The goal is to eventually replace as many of the existing
memstats statistics with the sharded ones as possible.
The consistent memory statistics use a tailor-made synchronization
mechanism to allow writers (allocators) to proceed with minimal
synchronization by using a sequence counter and a global generation
counter to determine which set of statistics to update. Readers
increment the global generation counter to effectively grab a snapshot
of the statistics, and then iterate over all Ps using the sequence
counter to ensure that they may safely read the snapshotted statistics.
To keep statistics fresh, the reader also has a responsibility to merge
sets of statistics.
These consistent statistics are computed, but otherwise unused for now.
Upcoming changes will integrate them with the rest of the codebase and
will begin to phase out existing statistics.
Change-Id: I637a11f2439e2049d7dccb8650c5d82500733ca5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/247037
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