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Isolate interpreter heaps and redesign cyclic garbage collection - #8939

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Summary

  • Give each interpreter its own collector, stop-the-world coordination and QSBR reclamation domain. Collections no longer scan or stop other live interpreters.
  • Capture compact object graphs while the owner is stopped, analyze reachability after resuming execution, and revalidate candidates before finalization and clearing.
  • Schedule all three generations automatically, with growth-based full collections and default thresholds of (2000, 10, 10).
  • Introduce scoped Vm/Bound access and opaque PyHandle roots for embedding. Object access requires the owning interpreter; detached releases are deferred to that owner. This changes the public embedding API.
  • Isolate native type namespaces, mutable native classes, descriptors, attribute caches, module caches and weakref registries between interpreters. Share immutable native definitions and independently owned buffer storage.
  • Make runtime shutdown retire Python roots before native storage, preserve cleanup through native panics, and reject stale post-fork owners without corrupting owner counts.
  • Preserve nested and saved VM entries across fork, stabilize native registries across the syscall, and retire vanished owners before running child callbacks.
  • Collect weakref callback cycles, close the weakref unlink race, and release dynamic native function definitions and temporary constant views instead of leaking them.
  • Release cross-interpreter channel payloads outside channel locks, allowing buffer destructors to reenter the channel API.
  • Query Unix signal dispositions without temporarily replacing handlers, preventing concurrent interpreter initialization from losing child exit statuses or signal masks.

This continues the GC ownership and scheduling work in #8930.

API changes

  • Scoped object access. Interpreter::enter supplies a scoped Vm; Python values are accessed through Bound. Neither can outlive the entry or cross native threads, and bound values do not expose raw Python payloads.
  • Persistent host values. Retain objects as opaque PyHandle roots and use vm.bind() to access them in their owning interpreter. Handles do not keep the interpreter alive. Dropping the last handle outside its owner's attachment defers release; Python destruction runs only while attached to the owner.
  • Attachment is required. Object access is rejected while detached or inside a nested entry into another interpreter. Vm::detach accepts only Send closures and results, preventing scoped Python values from being captured by detached work.
  • Raw native integration is unsafe. Raw VM/context access, native module registration, initialization callbacks and conversions to raw references require an explicit ownership contract: access and release Python references only while attached to their owner, never let raw references escape the entry, and never insert foreign Python references into an interpreter's graph. Rust cannot enforce these rules for raw callbacks and payloads.
  • Initialization and native state. Configure settings through InterpreterBuilder::configure before runtime initialization. Mutable Python classes, descriptors and caches belong to one interpreter; process-wide native definitions must contain no mutable Python state.
  • Cross-interpreter buffers. Exporters must provide independently owned storage through the unsafe SharedBufferStorage contract: stable length and lifetime, synchronized mutable access, and no Python references or callbacks when reading, writing or dropping storage. Python buffer-release callbacks remain with the exporting interpreter.
  • Fallible shutdown. Safe run and finalize return FinalizeBusy while other native owners or teardown operations remain. The error preserves the interpreter so the host can release those owners and retry.
  • Inherited owners after fork. Native owner scopes active on the surviving thread, including saved and nested entries, remain valid. Inherited idle or foreign-thread owners become stale; scoped operations reject them with ForkedOwner.

Performance

Windows 11 x64

Compared with main using default release builds; medians of three alternating runs.

Workload Before After
20 full collections while another VM retains 250,000 lists 62.96 ms 26.32 ms
Create, execute and destroy 100 interpreters 5,351 ms 2,881 ms
Private memory after those interpreter lifetimes 135.8 MiB 42.5 MiB
Private memory in the cyclic-object lifetime workload 362.1 MiB 234.2 MiB
p99 latency of Python batches during GC in a neighboring VM 31.56 ms 0.040 ms

The latency workload executes batches of 200 Python additions while another VM performs 60 full collections with 250,000 live lists.

Automatic collection now includes older generations: retaining 500,000 lists takes 119.80 ms versus 80.83 ms, and the cyclic-object lifetime workload takes 84.73 ms versus 65.71 ms. The retained-list workload visits about 2.4 times as many candidates; private memory rises from 102.4 MiB to 114.6 MiB.

Known limitations

  • Cross-interpreter cycles. Independent collectors cannot reclaim cycles spanning multiple interpreter heaps through exported native handles. These cycles can retain objects until their links are broken or the interpreters shut down. Automatic collection would require an additional protocol for detecting cycles across interpreters.
  • Fork requirement. fork quiesces interpreter activity across the process and stabilizes shared runtime registries. This coordination is a safety requirement of the fork path; ordinary GC pauses only the owning interpreter.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a scoped embedding API for executing Python, working with values, and handling exceptions.
    • Added interpreter-local classes and state to improve isolation between interpreters.
    • Added shared buffer support across interpreters.
    • Added retryable interpreter finalization when native owners remain active.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved bytearray and buffer behavior while memoryviews are active.
    • Improved garbage collection, signal probing, SQLite callback handling, and interpreter state management after fork.

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This large interpreter-isolation and GC redesign still has open concerns. A timezone singleton is shared across interpreters, and an unsafe bytearray pointer API drops its lock before returning the pointer. A buffer copy can panic, finalization can stay busy, and retired heaps may be rescanned more often than needed. Resolve or explicitly accept these issues before merging.

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📦 Library Dependencies

The following Lib/ modules were modified. Here are their dependencies:

[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_gc.py (TODO: 3)

dependencies:

dependent tests: (185 tests)

  • gc: test_array test_asyncio test_baseexception test_builtin test_call test_class test_context test_csv test_ctypes test_deque test_descr test_dict test_enum test_enumerate test_finalization test_functools test_gc test_generators test_gzip test_inspect test_itertools test_logging test_memoryio test_memoryview test_ordered_dict test_pdb test_peepholer test_pickle test_picklebuffer test_raise test_set test_socket test_ssl test_struct test_structseq test_subprocess test_sys test_sys_setprofile test_sys_settrace test_tempfile test_tuple test_types test_typing test_unittest test_weakref test_weakset test_winreg test_zoneinfo test_zstd
    • timeit: test_timeit
    • trace: test_trace
    • weakref: test_ast test_asyncio test_code test_concurrent_futures test_contextlib test_copy test_exceptions test_file test_fileio test_frame test_genericalias test_importlib test_io test_ipaddress test_mmap test_queue test_re test_scope test_slice test_sqlite3 test_thread test_threading test_threading_local test_type_params test_unicodedata test_unittest test_uuid test_xml_etree
      • asyncio: test_asyncio test_concurrent_futures test_external_inspection test_os test_unittest
      • bdb: test_bdb
      • concurrent: test_compileall test_concurrent_futures test_wmi
      • copy: test_bytes test_codecs test_collections test_copyreg test_coroutines test_decimal test_defaultdict test_dictviews test_email test_fractions test_http_cookies test_minidom test_opcache test_optparse test_platform test_plistlib test_posix test_site test_statistics test_super test_sysconfig test_tomllib test_urllib2 test_xml_dom_minicompat test_zlib
      • gzip: test_fileinput test_tarfile test_xmlrpc
      • inspect: test_abc test_argparse test_asyncgen test_buffer test_clinic test_grammar test_monitoring test_ntpath test_operator test_patma test_posixpath test_pydoc test_signal test_sqlite3 test_traceback test_turtle test_type_annotations test_yield_from test_zipimport test_zipimport_support
      • logging: test_hashlib test_pkgutil test_support test_urllib2net
      • multiprocessing: test_fcntl test_multiprocessing_main_handling
      • symtable: test_symtable
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      • xml.sax.expatreader: test_sax

[x] lib: cpython/Lib/weakref.py
[x] lib: cpython/Lib/_weakrefset.py
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_weakref.py (TODO: 7)
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_weakset.py

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dependent tests: (225 tests)

  • weakref: test_array test_ast test_asyncio test_code test_concurrent_futures test_context test_contextlib test_copy test_ctypes test_deque test_descr test_dict test_enum test_exceptions test_file test_fileio test_finalization test_frame test_functools test_gc test_generators test_genericalias test_importlib test_inspect test_io test_ipaddress test_itertools test_logging test_memoryio test_memoryview test_mmap test_ordered_dict test_pickle test_picklebuffer test_queue test_re test_scope test_set test_slice test_socket test_sqlite3 test_ssl test_struct test_sys test_tempfile test_thread test_threading test_threading_local test_type_params test_types test_typing test_unicodedata test_unittest test_uuid test_weakref test_weakset test_xml_etree
    • asyncio: test_asyncio test_concurrent_futures test_external_inspection test_os test_pdb test_unittest
    • bdb: test_bdb
    • concurrent: test_compileall test_concurrent_futures test_wmi
    • copy: test_bytes test_codecs test_collections test_copyreg test_coroutines test_csv test_decimal test_defaultdict test_dictviews test_email test_fractions test_http_cookies test_minidom test_opcache test_optparse test_platform test_plistlib test_posix test_site test_statistics test_structseq test_super test_sysconfig test_tomllib test_urllib2 test_xml_dom_minicompat test_zlib
      • argparse: test_argparse
      • collections: test_annotationlib test_bisect test_builtin test_c_locale_coercion test_call test_configparser test_contains test_ctypes test_embed test_exception_group test_fileinput test_funcattrs test_hash test_httpservers test_iter test_iterlen test_json test_math test_monitoring test_pathlib test_patma test_pprint test_pydoc test_random test_reprlib test_richcmp test_shelve test_sqlite3 test_string test_traceback test_tuple test_urllib test_userdict test_userlist test_userstring test_with
      • dataclasses: test__colorize test_ctypes test_regrtest test_zoneinfo
      • email.generator: test_email
      • gettext: test_gettext test_tools
      • http.cookiejar: test_http_cookiejar
      • http.server: test_robotparser test_urllib2_localnet test_xmlrpc
      • logging.handlers: test_pkgutil
      • mailbox: test_mailbox
      • smtplib: test_smtplib test_smtpnet
      • tarfile: test_shutil test_tarfile
      • webbrowser: test_webbrowser
    • inspect: test_abc test_asyncgen test_buffer test_clinic test_grammar test_ntpath test_operator test_posixpath test_signal test_turtle test_type_annotations test_yield_from test_zipimport test_zipimport_support
      • ast: test_codeop test_compile test_compiler_codegen test_dis test_fstring test_future_stmt test_peepholer test_peg_generator test_type_comments test_ucn test_unparse
      • cmd: test_cmd
      • importlib.metadata: test_importlib
      • pkgutil: test_pyrepl test_runpy
      • rlcompleter: test_pyrepl test_rlcompleter
      • trace: test_trace
    • logging: test_hashlib test_support test_urllib2net
      • hashlib: test_hmac
      • venv: test_venv
    • multiprocessing: test_fcntl test_multiprocessing_main_handling
    • symtable: test_symtable
    • tempfile: test_bz2 test_cmd_line test_cprofile test_ctypes test_doctest test_ensurepip test_faulthandler test_filecmp test_generated_cases test_importlib test_launcher test_linecache test_modulefinder test_peg_generator test_pkg test_pstats test_py_compile test_pyrepl test_selectors test_shlex test_string_literals test_subprocess test_sys_settrace test_tabnanny test_termios test_threadedtempfile test_tokenize test_urllib_response test_winconsoleio test_zipapp test_zipfile test_zipfile64 test_zstd
      • ctypes.util: test_ctypes
      • urllib.request: test_sax test_urllibnet

[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_descr.py (TODO: 2)
[ ] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_descrtut.py (TODO: 2)

dependencies:

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crates/vm/src/builtins/bytes.rs (1)

631-637: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Shared storage copies the whole bytes payload on every export.

as_bytes().into() copies all of the data into a new ImmutableBuffer for each export. Large bytes objects sent between interpreters pay O(n) memory and time. This is acceptable if the copy is intentional. Otherwise, share the storage by reference.

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Review comment at @crates/vm/src/builtins/bytes.rs around lines 631 - 637:
Update the shared_storage closure to share the PyBytes payload by reference
instead of copying it into a new ImmutableBuffer on each export, while
preserving the existing export behavior and ownership requirements.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/stdlib/src/_datetime.rs:
- Around line 2641-2643: Make PyTimeZone interpreter-local so each interpreter
initializes its own type and timezone.utc attribute via extend_class. Keep
utc(vm) aligned with that interpreter’s class attribute so timezone.utc is
identical to datetime.UTC and the type cannot retain an object owned by another
interpreter.

Review comments at @crates/vm/src/builtins/bytearray.rs:
- Around line 138-140: Update as_mut_ptr_unchecked so the returned pointer
remains protected for its usable lifetime, by exposing an API that holds the
buffer lock or maintains an export count that also prevents resizing; do not
return a pointer from a temporary borrow_buf_mut guard that drops before the
caller uses it.

Review comments at @crates/vm/src/builtins/super.rs:
- Line 241: Update the MRO-walk comment near `start_type.mro.read().clone()` to
describe walking a cloned MRO snapshot and releasing the MRO lock before
namespace reads and the descriptor call; remove the inaccurate claims that the
walk avoids cloning and that both locks are dropped.

Review comments at @crates/vm/src/gc_state/collector.rs:
- Around line 292-298: Update the retired-heap sweep in collect_inner to skip
heaps whose tracked membership has not changed since their last sweep. Add
per-heap dirty tracking, mark it when a heap is retired and in GcHeap::untrack
while it is retired, and clear/check it when sweeping so unchanged heaps avoid
snapshot and graph analysis.

Review comments at @crates/vm/src/protocol/shared_buffer.rs:
- Around line 89-91: Update ImmutableBuffer::write to return the existing
read-only error instead of panicking, preserving the error propagation through
SharedBuffer::write and XI_BUFFER_VIEW_METHODS.obj_bytes_mut.

Review comments at @crates/vm/src/stdlib/_io.rs:
- Around line 5288-5295: In the readinto path, avoid slicing past a destination
that shrank after the read: take one mutable borrow with
buffer.borrow_buf_mut(), clamp the copied byte count to both data.len() and the
borrowed destination length, and return that count. Leave the read behavior
unchanged.

Review comments at @crates/vm/src/vm/interpreter.rs:
- Around line 729-747: Update finish_scoped so Python thread shutdown and daemon
handling run before the owner-count check in try_finalize; currently that early
return prevents finalize_raw from reaching shutdown. Keep finalization admission
coordinated with cleanup entries, without closing admission before shutdown can
join workers.

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Review comments at @crates/vm/src/builtins/bytes.rs:
- Around line 631-637: Update the shared_storage closure to share the PyBytes
payload by reference instead of copying it into a new ImmutableBuffer on each
export, while preserving the existing export behavior and ownership
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1686-1703: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Lookup misses on non-interned names now walk the whole MRO.

interned_attr_name now falls back to interned_attr_name_cold for every name that is not in the string pool. The cold path clones the MRO Vec<PyTypeRef>, which costs one refcount increment per class. For each class, it then calls TypeNamespace::local() and vm.ctx.interned_str. local() resolves the current interpreter ID and the VM, even for heap types that return None at once.

This path now replaces a single O(1) check in generic_getattr_opt, generic_setattr, lookup_ref, PyBoundMethod::getattro and PySuper::getattro. A getattr/hasattr miss with a runtime-built name pays O(MRO) work on each call. This applies after every lazy namespace is already populated. PyType::getattro (lines 2626-2629) can run the cold path twice on one miss: once for zelf and once for the metaclass.

Make the steady state cheaper:

  • Skip classes that have no lazy native definition, or whose local namespace is already populated.
  • Call vm.ctx.interned_str(name) once after population, not once per class.
  • Optionally, keep a per-interpreter flag that records "all lazy namespaces populated". When it is set, return None without the walk.
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-        let mro = self.mro.read().clone();
-        for class in &mro {
-            drop(class.attributes.local());
-            if let Some(name) = vm.ctx.interned_str(name) {
-                return Some(name);
-            }
-        }
-        None
+        let mro = self.mro.read().clone();
+        let mut populated = false;
+        for class in mro.iter().filter(|c| c.heaptype_ext.is_none()) {
+            populated |= class.attributes.local().is_some();
+        }
+        populated.then(|| vm.ctx.interned_str(name)).flatten()
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Review comment at @crates/vm/src/builtins/type.rs around lines 1686 - 1703:
Update interned_attr_name_cold to avoid resolving TypeNamespace::local for
classes without lazy native definitions or whose local namespace is already
populated. Populate only the remaining lazy namespaces, then call
vm.ctx.interned_str(name) once after the walk; preserve lazy namespace
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Review comments at @crates/vm/src/builtins/type.rs:
- Around line 1686-1703: Update interned_attr_name_cold to avoid resolving
TypeNamespace::local for classes without lazy native definitions or whose local
namespace is already populated. Populate only the remaining lazy namespaces,
then call vm.ctx.interned_str(name) once after the walk; preserve lazy namespace
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@youknowone I’d love to hear your thoughts on this redesign. I took the liberty of implementing strict isolation, assuming it wouldn't compromise the project's philosophy. My main goal with this optimization - as well as previous and future ones - is to enable the project to handle high-load production scenarios, something I’ve already experimented with a bit.

I welcome any criticism of this large PR. Much of the code was generated via Codex following a series of smaller local improvements (mostly speed-related); I decided against submitting PRs involving compromises once further minor fixes hit an architectural bottleneck and ceased to offer clear benefits.

Fun fact: the entire redesign was carried out by Codex over a total of 9.5 hours, with oversight of specific decisions and constant iterative testing across two platforms. All told, this consumed 120% of my Pro quota (fortunately, I had some accumulated resets 😅).

I won't rebase against the latest main branch until I get your approval, just to avoid wasting CI resources.

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i agree to the motivation. here looks like a few dependencies to each part of tasks.
let's break down this patch to a few smaller PRs.
probably starting from thread/genesis changes?

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@1ndahous3 Oh, i missed your comment when I left comment. The design direction seems right. I'd like to make sure we don't break fundamental designs and ergonomics during this changes. Let's make this step by step.
Because you are working on gc, note that RustPython doesn't have a full featured GC yet. But we know we can enhance it this way. Thank you so much for this effort!

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@youknowone I see; in that case, it will require more time and several iterations of code adjustments.

If merging this full-scale PR isn't feasible, that’s fine - I’ll consider a phased approach, though that will likely mean a significant delay. That said, I have to highlight the large number of test cases added here.

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@1ndahous3 starting with separating into 2 steps will be also good. the main patch, and the dependencies.

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