Files
wasmtime/crates
Alex Crichton 91b8a2c527 Always allocate Instance memory with malloc (#5656)
This commit removes the pooling of `Instance` allocations from the
pooling instance allocator. This means that the allocation of `Instance`
(and `VMContext`) memory, now always happens through the system `malloc`
and `free` instead of optionally being part of the pooling instance
allocator. Along the way this refactors the `InstanceAllocator` trait so
the pooling and on-demand allocators can share more structure with this
new property of the implementation.

The main rationale for this commit is to reduce the RSS of long-lived
programs which allocate instances with the pooling instance allocator
and aren't using the "next available" allocation strategy. In this
situation the memory for an instance is never decommitted until the end
of the program, meaning that eventually all instance slots will become
occupied and resident. This has the effect of Wasmtime slowly eating
more and more memory over time as each slot gets an instance allocated.
By switching to the system allocator this should reduce the current RSS
workload from O(used slots) to O(active slots), which is more in line
with expectations.
2023-02-01 19:37:45 +00:00
..