[GHC] #11783: Very large slowdown when using parallel garbage collector

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#11783: Very large slowdown when using parallel garbage collector
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        Reporter:  luispedro         |                Owner:  simonmar
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  high              |            Milestone:  8.0.2
       Component:  Runtime System    |              Version:  7.10.3
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:  performance,
                                     |  garbage collector
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |         Architecture:
                                     |  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                    |             Blocking:
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Comment (by Simon Marlow <marlowsd@…>):

 In [changeset:"5c4cd0e44657d52f7ca5fee63f8765d17f1fbe85/ghc"
 5c4cd0e4/ghc]:
 {{{
 #!CommitTicketReference repository="ghc"
 revision="5c4cd0e44657d52f7ca5fee63f8765d17f1fbe85"
 Cache the size of part_list/scavd_list (#11783)

 After a parallel GC, it is possible to have a long list of blocks in
 ws->part_list, if we did a lot of work stealing but didn't fill up the
 blocks we stole.  These blocks persist until the next load-balanced GC,
 which might be a long time, and during every GC we were traversing this
 list to find its size.  The fix is to maintain the size all the time, so
 we don't have to compute it.
 }}}

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