perf(gc): replace the 4-way page-class cache with a direct-indexed table — classification misses 18.5% -> 6.0%

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Draft, and stacked. This branch sits on top of #9827 (perf/gc-overhead),
so the first two commits below belong to that PR and are not for review here.
GitHub will not take a fork-only branch as a base, hence main. Review only
165aa78b and 93ffee5d. It stays draft until the memory falsifier (F4) is
settled on a quiet host — see "What is not settled" at the bottom.

What this changes

The 4-way round-robin cache in front of PageGenerationMap becomes a
direct-indexed table over the arena's 1 MiB address classes, so a
classification is a bounds compare and one load instead of a linear probe.
PageGenerationMap stays authoritative and every miss falls through to it
exactly as before: this is a cache replacement, not a map replacement, and
the whole change is confined to PageGenerationCacheSet and its two callers.

Why not simply widen the cache

Because that was already measured and rejected. #7469 found 16 ways to be an
8.6 % regression on the same row (0/7 pairs) for 1.5 % fewer misses, and five
further associativity changes measured flat. The rule from those — associativity
pays only when a miss is expensive — says that a miss which is just a hash
lookup wants the cache to become unnecessary, not larger. ways_distinct_max
was already 4, so every way was in use and the shortfall was ~120x.

It can become unnecessary: the registered classes occupy a span of
1,018–1,021 classes at ~40 % density, so a table over that span holds every
one of them in 160 KB per classifying thread.

Motivation: the cost is per execution, under callers that have no other fix

remembered_child_needs_tracking runs 35,871,391 times per turn on the
compiled claude-code TUI, and 95.23 % of those take its cheapest arm — one
cached classification and a compare. The expensive arm is 0.043 %, 1 in 2,300.
There is no barrier predicate left to fix; what remains after the predicate
is already optimal is the classification itself. mark_addr (233 of 760
classify* leaf samples) and the side-table prunes pay the same cost.

Results

Both arms are the same binary; the control is PERRY_GC_PAGE_CLASS_TABLE=0.
Rig: secret-tests/cc-permission-harness/stream_scale.py, sandbox ov.

The counter — load-independent, and the decision

3300-char reply	4-way (control)	table
lookups	382,589,551	422,291,253
hits	311,882,708 (81.52 %)	397,083,664 (94.03 %)
misses	70,706,843 (18.48 %)	25,207,589 (5.97 %)	3.1x lower rate
— on registered classes	50,297,750	2,336,644	21.5x fewer
— on unregistered addresses	20,409,093	22,870,945	unchanged
span / rebases / refused	— / 0 / 0	4096 / 0 / 0

400-char reply	4-way	table
misses	20,893,676 (13.17 %)	8,484,189 (4.94 %)	2.7x lower rate
— on registered classes	14,403,789	1,196,257	12.0x fewer
span / rebases / refused	— / 0 / 0	4096 / 0 / 0

The control arm independently reproduces the capture this design was built on
(382.6 M lookups/turn at 18.48 %, against that capture's 440 M at 20.0–21.6 %),
so the premise is replicated rather than assumed.

Leaf share — sample, 3300-char turn, leaf sum == thread header exactly

symbol	4-way	table
classify_heap_space_in_range_uncached	269	35
classify_heap_generation_uncached	185	50
the two _uncached = pure miss cost	454 (3.37 %)	85 (0.59 %)	5.3x
CopyingPointerSet::classify_arena (inlined probe)	300 (2.22 %)	316 (2.18 %)	flat
narrow classify*	754 (5.59 %)	401 (2.77 %)
active samples	13,486	14,483

The _uncached fall (5.3x) is larger than the miss count fell (2.8x) because the
misses differ in kind: the 4-way arm's are 71 % on registered classes, where the
map lookup succeeds and is followed by slot.find(addr) and an insert; the
table's are 91 % on unregistered addresses, where the probe finds nothing and
returns early. A failed lookup is cheaper than a successful one plus an insert.

classify_arena is flat, and that refutes part of my own model. Its leaf
samples carry the #[inline(always)] hit arm, so I predicted the probe going
from a 4-way scan to one compare and one load would show there. 300 vs 316 is
inside n=1 sampling noise. The 4-way probe was never the expensive part of that
function — the range/header guard and space matching around it are, and the
entire win is on the miss path.

Numbered fact: the span check does NOT reject unregistered addresses

The design spec asserted that addresses in no registered block would be
"rejected by the same bounds check that indexes the table — no separate filter
needed". The counter refutes it:

1. Of 22,870,945 unregistered-address misses, 32,144 are out of span —
   0.14 %. Over 99.8 % fall inside the table, hit a dead entry, and go on
   to the map exactly as before.
2. Out-of-span is not even sound as a proof of unregistered: a registration
   past PAGE_CLASS_TABLE_MAX_SPAN is refused and deliberately left outside the
   span, so an out-of-span key may be perfectly well registered.
3. This population is now 90.7 % of every miss that remains (85.9 % at 400),
   and it is untouched by this change — 5.33 % of lookups before, 5.42 % after.

Negative caching is therefore the entire remaining headroom on this line, and it
is cheap: the epoch bump already invalidates exactly when such an entry could go
stale, and the precondition ("no registered range in this class") is already
computed and then discarded by pages.get(&key).and_then(|slot| slot.find(addr)).
Filed as #9852, deliberately not in this PR.

Four things the measurement did not settle, each handled and each pinned

A wrong answer here is a misclassified pointer, so none is left to inference.
Each guard has a test that fails when the guard is removed:

• The base moves per process (0x43daa2 vs 0x57e3c2 — ASLR). Taken from
  the first insert, never compiled in.
• The span can grow (1,018 → 1,021 across two runs of one binary). An insert
  outside the table rebases it up to a 16,384-class cap; past the cap the key is
  left uncached and falls through, never mis-indexed.
• The sizing is not obvious. With base first_key - S and a table of N,
  the span covered is min(S + 1, N - S), maximised at S = N / 2. The
  natural pairing N = 4096, S = 1024 covers 1,025 classes — four above the
  measured 1,021 — while S = N / 2 covers 2,048 for identical memory. A
  const assert now fails the build for any pairing covering less than twice the
  measured span; the natural pairing fails it. Measured outcome: 0 rebases,
  0 refusals at both lengths.
• A key match is not an address match. A class can hold more than one range,
  so a hit still requires range.contains(addr).

Invalidation is an epoch bump: O(1), same "clear everything" contract the 4-way
set met by wholesale reset. That contract matters more here — the table holds
~2,000 entries where the set held 4, so a missing invalidation the old structure
survived by luck would be live — so all three PageGenerationMap mutation sites
were enumerated and each ends with an unconditional
invalidate_generation_cache().

The arm is a plain u8 field in the set's first cache line, not the env
OnceLock. That path runs 440 M times per turn and an acquire load on each would
have been charged to both arms of the A/B — hiding it in the very comparison
meant to isolate it — while still being paid against main.

Sabotage matrix

Each row removes exactly one guard from an otherwise identical file:

guard removed	base	outofspan	contains	invalidate
none	ok	ok	ok	ok
self.base = 0 instead of first_key - SLACK	FAIL	FAIL	ok	ok
no rebase/refuse branch in insert	ok	FAIL	ok	ok
no e.range.contains(addr) in lookup	ok	ok	FAIL	ok
no epoch bump in invalidate	ok	ok	ok	FAIL

Every failure is on the guard's own named assertion, and two are literal
misclassified pointers — left: Old, right: Nursery and left: Nursery, right: Old. The base row fails two tests because the out-of-span test's setup
presumes a working base; that is not separable.

What is not settled — why this is draft

Rebase hazard: scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json conflicts with #9838 — do NOT let a resolver pick a side

Found by perry-b4 rebasing this branch onto #9838's head for the quiet-host
memory arm (644b9d362 ⨯ 93ffee5de = ee4ef5d6a). gc/policy.rs auto-merged
clean — different hunks — but scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json
conflicted: both sides re-pinned PASS1_MARKED and added holder entries. The
arm took #9838's copy, which is fine there because that file is a lint inventory
and never enters the runtime build; it is not fine for whichever PR lands
second.

Whose conflict this is. It is between #9827 and #9838, not this PR's two
commits. scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json and gc/policy.rs are touched
only by 2e99865be, which belongs to #9827; 165aa78b and 93ffee5d touch only
arena/page_meta.rs, arena/mod.rs, gc/copying.rs and a changelog fragment. So
if #9827 lands first and this branch is rebased onto the new main, this PR's
diff no longer contains that file at all and the conflict becomes #9838-vs-main.
It surfaces here only because this branch carries #9827.

Why a naive resolution is worse than a conflict. window.sources is a map of
pinned file → SHA-256 of that file's contents, verified by
scripts/gc_snapshot_contracts.py, which fails with "source changed: …;
re-audit the window before updating its pin". Both #9827 and #9838 modified
gc/policy.rs, so both recomputed the same key to different values.
Taking either side's hash gives a value that matches neither the merged
policy.rs nor anything else — the pin has to be recomputed from the merged
file, not chosen:

python3 - <<'EOF'
import hashlib; print(hashlib.sha256(
    open('crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/policy.rs','rb').read()).hexdigest())
EOF
python3 scripts/gc_snapshot_contracts.py   # must exit 0

The why field is the second half: it is an append-only re-audit narrative, and
#9827 and #9838 each appended a dated paragraph for a different change. Both
paragraphs must survive — keeping one silently drops the audit record for the
other change, which is exactly what the field exists to preserve. The holder
entries each side added are additive and should be unioned.

On this branch as it stands all five pins verify and
scripts/gc_snapshot_contracts.py exits 0.

Note also that arm T carries #9827 as well, so its memory numbers are for
main + #9827 + #9838 + this table, not for the table alone; the within-binary
PERRY_GC_PAGE_CLASS_TABLE=0 control is what isolates the table in that arm.

Memory at 3300 is inconclusive. Peak RSS reads 889 → 1284 MB on minima, but
the control arm's own spread across three rounds is 889/1078/1314 MB — a
425 MB range that exceeds the 395 MB gap between the minima — while the
table arm's is 1284/1320/1324. Variance exceeds the effect, so that is one
sample, not a measurement. At 400 chars memory is better on all three metrics.
The table's structural cost is bounded and counter-confirmed — 4,096 × 40 B =
160 KB per classifying thread, allocated once, rebases = 0 — which cannot
produce 395 MB, but that is an argument and the falsifier is the measurement:
peak RSS and 120 s settled RSS within the base arm's own spread at both
lengths, both arms rotated, on a quiet host. Being re-taken there now.

CPU minima favour the table at both lengths (400: 4.88 → 4.37 s; 3300:
20.42 → 19.64 s) but the box was at load 40–88 with a 45.17 s outlier in the
table arm against 19.64/19.99 in the same arm. Not claimed.

Gates

cargo test -p perry-runtime --release -- gc:: arena:: — 1,138 passed,
0 failed, all four page-class tests included. Clippy clean for this change.
Label run-extended-tests applied, without which the GC gates silently skip.

F4 settled on a quiet host (perrymaster, 2026-09-06)

One binary at 644b9d362 (main + #9838), one runtime-only relink of this branch (ee4ef5d6a, carries #9827), T-off = the same app with PERRY_GC_PAGE_CLASS_TABLE=0 as the positive control. 7 rotating rounds at 3300, 5 at 400, then 120 s idle rows ×2 per arm at both lengths. Load 0.5–0.9.

Schedule flat (the prediction): minors A 18/106, T 17/105, T-off 18/106; fulls 7/7/8; ≤1 %-yield steps 11/11/12; tiny-parse requests 11 everywhere.

Counter line, one 3300 reply:

• T (table): lookups 530.0 M, miss 7.28 % — miss_registered 6.82 M, miss_unregistered 31.74 M, out_of_span 14,205 (a count, not a rejection), span 4096, rebases 0, refused 0
• T-off (4-way): lookups 530.8 M, miss 20.44 % — miss_registered 77.10 M, miss_unregistered 31.37 M
• → registered-class misses 11.3× fewer; unregistered unchanged (as they must be — see gc: negative-cache the unregistered 1 MiB classes — they are 90.7% of every classification miss left, and only 0.14% are rejected by the span check #9852); total miss share 20.4 → 7.3 %. Absolute shares run ~2× the dev-box sandbox's (18 → 5–6 %); the ratio and direction reproduce.

CPU, per pair: 3300 A→T −0.53 −0.69 −0.43 −0.34 −0.69 (+3.94 +4.10 are mode flips: T drew the 18 s mode against a fast A) → −2.5…−5 % in-mode; T-off→T −0.78 −0.73 −0.66 in-mode (−4.8…−5.3 % against its own kill switch); A→T-off in-mode +0.0…+0.4 (kill switch ≈ base). Ranges A 13.58–18.21, T 13.16–17.85, T-off 13.77–18.55 — T's fast mode is the lowest of the three. Means are mode-count artefacts and are not quoted. 400: A→T −0.11 −0.06 −0.02 −0.02 −0.08 (5/5); T-off→T −0.13 −0.09 −0.11 −0.10 −0.09 (5/5) → −4…−6 %, every pair.

Memory, inside A's spread at both lengths: 3300 post-turn A 947–952 | T 953–961 | T-off 947–962; peak (VmHWM) A 1114–1124 | T 1112–1133 | T-off 1115–1123 (per-pair Δpeak −12…+15); 120 s settled A 671/754 | T 614/674 | T-off 674/754. 400 post-turn A 761–776 | T 759–767; 120 s settled A 555/557 | T 531/547. Peak inside spread, settled at-or-below A, no hundreds of MB anywhere — the 160 KB/thread once-allocated prediction holds. The dev-box F4 reading (a 425 MB within-arm spread) was variance, as suspected.

Raw on perrymaster: /root/rig9831/combT.jsonl, idleT.jsonl, combT_{A,T,Toff}_{diag,trace}3300.*, idleT_*.diag. Measured by session perry-b4.

Landing note: this branch is based on main but carries #9827's two commits (fork-only base); only 165aa78b and 93ffee5d are the table. The scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json conflict is #9827-vs-#9838 — the window.sources pin is a SHA-256 of policy.rs and must be recomputed from the merged file (scripts/gc_snapshot_contracts.py), with both why paragraphs kept; if #9827 lands first and this rebases, this diff stops containing that file.

https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Performance

  • Improved garbage-collection trigger and barrier paths by caching frequently accessed thread-local state.
  • Replaced the page-generation cache with a direct-indexed table for faster lookups, with automatic fallback for unsupported ranges.

• Diagnostics

  • Added per-minor-cycle page-cache reporting.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved validation of thread-local declarations to catch unexpected additions.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for thread-local initialization safety and GC trigger-path caching.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change migrates GC runtime TLS declarations to the hot cache, adds safeguards and regression tests, strengthens the raw-TLS declaration gate, and replaces the page-generation cache with a bounded direct-indexed table with epoch invalidation and diagnostics.

Changes

GC hot TLS migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Hot TLS declarations and access updates crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/*	GC and arena thread-local declarations now use crate::perry_thread_local! where safe. Reentrant arena state and named HotTls fields remain raw.
TLS regression tests and declaration gate crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/*, scripts/check_thread_locals.py, scripts/thread_local_cold_allowlist.json, scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json, changelog.d/9827-gc-trigger-path-hot-tls.md	Tests verify hot-slot resolution and fill behavior. The checker and allowlist now count raw declarations instead of blocks.

Direct page-class cache

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Direct-indexed cache model and lookup paths crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/page_meta.rs	PageGenerationCacheSet gains a direct-indexed table, bounded rebasing, range checks, arm selection, and fallback to the existing 4-way cache.
Invalidation, reporting, and runtime wiring crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/page_meta.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/copying.rs, changelog.d/9845-gc-page-class-direct-table.md	Epoch invalidation, cache statistics, diagnostics, exports, and per-minor reporting are added.
Cache behavior tests crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/page_meta.rs	Tests cover initial bases, rebasing limits, range containment, and invalidation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 93ffe

Valid Rust syntax can bypass the raw-TLS declaration ratchet, so the checker should be corrected before merge. The diagnostics placement and cache-ratio release note also need small fixes.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: replacing the 4-way page-class cache with a direct-indexed table and reporting the measured miss-rate improvement.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is detailed and relevant. It explains the design, motivation, measurements, safeguards, tests, draft status, and stacked-PR context. It does not follow the template headings exactly an…
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In `@changelog.d/9845-gc-page-class-direct-table.md`:
- Line 19: Correct the quantitative claims in the release-note entry: replace
the ~120× figure with the value supported by 402–432 classes and
ways_distinct_max = 4, and revise the N = 4096, S = 1024 assertion description
to match its 1,025-class coverage or state the actual invariant. Keep the
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- Line 1621: Move the page_class_table_report call outside the skip_remembering
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• crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/mod.rs
• crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/page_meta.rs
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• crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tenuring.rs
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the quantitative claims in the release note.

The stated inputs do not support two values:

• 402–432 registered classes with ways_distinct_max = 4 gives 100.5–108×, not ~120x.
• N = 4096, S = 1024 covers 1,025 classes, while twice the stated 1,018–1,021 span is 2,036–2,042. The assertion description therefore contradicts the preceding configuration.

Update the measurements or describe the actual assertion invariant.

Based on learnings: “For PerryTS/perry changelog fragments in changelog.d/, describe the final shipped behavior as one coherent release-note entry. Do not include separate development-slice narratives that may contradict one another when the release notes are assembled.”

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In `@changelog.d/9845-gc-page-class-direct-table.md` at line 19, Correct the
quantitative claims in the release-note entry: replace the ~120× figure with the
value supported by 402–432 classes and ways_distinct_max = 4, and revise the N =
4096, S = 1024 assertion description to match its 1,025-class coverage or state
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Move the report outside the skip_remembering guard.

A traced in-place promotion can set collector.skip_remembering to true while untraced is false. The !untraced path still calls scan_remembered_dirty_slots_copying, which performs page-generation lookups. The current nesting then skips page_class_table_report(), so cumulative per-minor diagnostics omit those lookups. Call the report after the guarded restore_surviving_dirty_coverage block.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/copying.rs` at line 1621, Move the
page_class_table_report call outside the skip_remembering guard, placing it
after the guarded restore_surviving_dirty_coverage block so diagnostics include
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make macro-body parsing Rust-lexically aware.

brace_span treats braces in literals and comments as structural braces. For example, a valid raw TLS block containing static A: &str = "}"; closes at the string character. The checker then misses later declarations in that block. After --update, the allowlist records the undercount and the declaration ratchet no longer detects those additions.

Skip comments, quoted literals, character literals, and raw strings while matching braces. Add this case to self_test.

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Landed on main via merge train #9883. Validated as a tree: 64/64 lint gates, and perry-runtime/codegen/hir/stdlib all green (5,910 tests, 0 failures). Thanks!