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Bring a few upstream GC patches into our fork #169

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Should be NFCs or code simplifications.

JuliaLang#54936 is the only one which does more significant changes, but we already assessed its performance in the open-source benchmarks and internally as well.

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d-netto and others added 5 commits July 22, 2024 14:32
Encapsulates all relevant GC thread-local-state into a separate
structure.

Motivation is that MMTk will have its own version of GC
thread-local-state, so doesn't need all of the Julia GC TLS.

In the future, folks who would be using MMTk would be setting a
pre-processor flag which would lead to either the stock Julia GC TLS or
MMTk's GC TLS to be included in `julia_threads.h`.

I.e., we would have something like:

```C
jl_gc_mmtk_tls_states mmtk_gc_tls;
jl_gc_tls_states gc_tls;
```
Simplifies the layout of the doubly linked list of big objects to make
it a bit more canonical: let's just store a pointer to the previous
element, instead of storing a "pointer to the next element of the
previous element". This should make the implementation a bit easier to
understand without incurring any memory overhead.

I ran the serial and multithreaded benchmarks from GCBenchmarks and this
seems fairly close to performance neutral on my machine. We also ran our
internal benchmarks on it at RAI and it looks fine from a correctness
and performance point of view.

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Co-authored-by: Kiran Pamnany <kpamnany@users.noreply.github.com>
Third-party GCs (e.g. MMTk) will probably have their own function to
spawn GC threads.
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Let's run benchmarks on this full commit set?

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d-netto commented Jul 24, 2024

Let's run benchmarks on this full commit set?

Yes.

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@d-netto d-netto merged commit 5f234f0 into v1.10.2+RAI Jul 25, 2024
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@d-netto d-netto deleted the dcn-upstream-gc-patches branch July 25, 2024 16:12
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