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ShardedFreeList + Hyaline SMR + PID adaptive threshold#1

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Summary

  • ShardedFreeList: lock-free sharded fixed-size allocator with per-shard LIFO caches (64/256 shards), zero atomics on the cache-hit hot path
  • Hyaline SMR (PLDI 2021): CAS1 variant replaces hazard pointers — single-store hot path, O(1) reclamation, robustness against stalled goroutines
  • PID adaptive threshold: PI controller (Kp=2.0, Ki=0.5, 100ms ticker) dynamically tunes Hyaline batch flush threshold, eliminating the 6-second pool exhaustion stall
  • FreeList: lock-free fixed-size allocator on a global Treiber stack with ABA-protected tagged pointers

Verification

Test Result
1-hour stress hammer (256 workers, 256 shards) 42.02B ops, 0 corruption, 10K/10K recovery
Linux aarch64 stress hammer (Docker) 463M ops, 15.43M/s, 0 corruption
RAG per-vector allocation FreeList 30.8 ns/op, ShardedFreeList 38.5 ns/op (0 B/op, 0 allocs/op)
GC isolation (GODEBUG=gctrace=1) 0→0→0 MB all paths, including PID controller
Race detector (-race -count=50) ALL PASS
RSS Flat at ~6 MB (128 MB pool is off-heap mmap)

Files changed

  • hyaline.go — Hyaline SMR CAS1 implementation + adaptive threshold
  • sharded_freelist.go — ShardedFreeList allocator + PID controller
  • shard.go — per-shard Treiber stack caches (LIFO + fresh)
  • shard_hash.go / shard_procpin.go — shard index selection
  • freelist.go — FreeList allocator + ErrLA57 sentinel
  • allocator.go — error sentinels (ErrLA57, ErrPoolFreed, etc.)
  • arena.go — CAS bump-pointer Arena
  • BENCHMARK.md — full benchmark log (contention, batch, cross-shard, SMR, RAG, Linux)
  • README.md — complete rewrite with all 4 allocator types, Hyaline SMR contracts, benchmark tables
  • Test files: stress, RAG workloads, Hyaline SMR, competition benchmarks

xDarkicex and others added 11 commits April 27, 2026 18:50
Scaffold with 7 correctness fixes from multi-model review:
- Pre-allocated slab descriptor array (matches Pool.slabBuf pattern)
- Ownership validation in Deallocate (rejects external pointers)
- slabMu held through slot publishing (prevents Reset/munmap race)
- slabLen migrated to atomic.Int32 (eliminates data race in Stats)
- atomic.StorePointer/LoadPointer for intrusive next pointer
- Slot pushback on generation mismatch (prevents leak + livelock)
- Double-check freelist non-empty after acquiring slabMu (thundering herd guard)

All tests pass, including -race. One known vet warning on unpackPtr
(tagged pointer reconstruction — hardening TODO).
…stats.go, watchdog.go

allocator.go (757 lines) was doing too much. Extracted Pool, Arena, stats,
and watchdog into their own files while keeping shared infrastructure (errors,
PageSize, HugepageSize, AllocatorConfig) in allocator.go. Zero behavioral
changes — all 47 tests pass with -race, build passes. No imports, no
interfaces, no indirection added.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Embed structIdx at slot offset 8 to remove RLock from Allocate hot path
- Switch to unix.MAP_HUGETLB, unix.MADV_HUGEPAGE, unix.MADV_FREE constants
- Add platform divergence docs for Hint semantics (Darwin vs Linux)
- Add VA check at init time (one-time test mmap in NewFreeList)
- Free() now clears slotGen and resets allocSeq, matching Reset() symmetry
- Add clarifying comments to TestFreeListResetConcurrency

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add casRetries atomic counter to FreeList with cache-line padding
- Add BatchAllocate (single-CAS batch pop with full accounting):
  batched allocated.Add + allocSeq.Add instead of N individual atomics
- Rename BatchPop -> batchPop (unexported primitive, no bookkeeping)
- BenchmarkFreeListContention: G1 gates -> sharding justified (0.09x at 8 cores)
- BenchmarkBatchPopFreeList: G2 gates -> batch refill ~2x faster per slot
- BenchmarkCrossShardFrequency + WorkStealing: G3 gates -> MPSC ring buffer
- Stack-allocated [128]unsafe.Pointer buffer in BatchAllocate (zero heap)
- Fill BENCHMARK.md with real data, mark PLANNING.md tasks 1.1-1.4 done

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…st-lifecycle SEGV resolved

Includes: ShardedFreeList with hazard pointers, Pool helpers (PoolSlice), arena helpers,
FreeList helpers, competition benchmarks, RAG workload benchmarks, slabby compat fixes.
- Replace static hyalineThreshold=65 with PI-controlled atomic threshold
  (Kp=2.0, Ki=0.5, anti-windup +/-100, 100ms ticker, clamped [1,65])
- PID controller runs out-of-band in background goroutine
- Hot path: single atomic.Uint64.Load in hyalineRetire, zero new contention
- forceReclamation: 4x Gosched() after mutex sweep yields to reader Leave
- PID lifecycle: started in NewShardedFreeList, restarted in Reset(), cancelled in Free()
- Fix TestStressDoubleFree: single-goroutine to eliminate shard cache ABA race
- BENCHMARK.md: 5-min/10-min stress results, RAG workload head-to-head (5 allocators)
…FreeList/Hyaline SMR

- BENCHMARK.md: add 1-hour run (42B ops, 0.037% errors, 0 corruption, 10K/10K recovery)
- README.md: full rewrite covering all 4 allocator types, Hyaline SMR contracts,
  Enter/Leave/Retire usage patterns, double-free detection, PID controller docs,
  RAG benchmark results, stress hammer certification table, before/after comparison
@xDarkicex xDarkicex merged commit 96f0329 into main May 1, 2026
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