[JS2-689] Spring Bean Factory creation of Prototype (non-singleton) beans causes serious performance degradation under load

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.2
• Component/s: Components Core
• Assignee: David Sean Taylor
• Reporter: David Sean Taylor
• Created: 27/Apr/07 16:55
• Updated: 04/Oct/11 21:37
• Resolved: 17/May/07 21:44

Description

It appears that Spring prototype (non-singleton) bean factory creations cause synchronization contention issues under load.
The NavigationalState and PortalURL beans are created several times per request.
Under load with JMeter tests, the synchronization of Java Bean support code (in the JDK), called by Spring's bean factory, was causing severe performance degradation.
Removing this bottleneck improved performance by 5X.
I've attached the Java source from the package java.beans. I believe its these synchronized methods of the java.beans.PropertyEditorManager class that are causing the contention:

private static synchronized void initialize() {
private static synchronized void load(Class targetType, String name) {

See attached screenshot for performance results before and after removal of prototypes (replaced by constructors).
Using a 4 processor CPU really brings the contention issue to the forefront.

When we have hundreds of requests active, there are over 90 blocked threads in the findEditor stack frame:

Thread t@98: (state = BLOCKED)

• java.beans.PropertyEditorManager.findEditor(java.lang.Class) @bci=0, line=75 (Compiled frame; information may be imprecise)
• org.springframework.beans.TypeConverterDelegate.convertIfNecessary(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object, java.lang.Class, java.beans.PropertyDescriptor, org.springframework.core.MethodParameter) @bci=115, line=174 (Compiled frame)
• org.springframework.beans.TypeConverterDelegate.convertIfNecessary(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Class, org.springframework.core.MethodParameter) @bci=7, line=95 (Compiled frame)
• org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doTypeConversionIfNecessary(org.springframework.beans.TypeConverter, java.lang.Object, java.lang.Class, org.springframework.core.MethodParameter) @bci=47, line=761 (Compiled frame)
• org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(java.lang.String, org.springframework.beans.factory.support.RootBeanDefinition) @bci=191, line=126 (Compiled frame)
• org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(java.lang.String, org.springframework.beans.factory.support.RootBeanDefinition) @bci=12, line=683 (Compiled frame)
• org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(java.lang.String, org.springframework.beans.factory.support.RootBeanDefinition, java.lang.Object[]) @bci=224, line=380 (Compiled frame)
• org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(java.lang.String, java.lang.Class, java.lang.Object[]) @bci=362, line=264 (Compiled frame)
• org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(java.lang.String, java.lang.Class) @bci=4, line=160 (Compiled frame)
• org.apache.jetspeed.container.state.impl.JetspeedNavigationalStateComponent.createURL(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, java.lang.String) @bci=29, line=131 (Compiled frame)
• org.apache.jetspeed.pipeline.JetspeedPipeline$Invocation.invokeNex

My first solution was to remove the Spring prototype code and replace it with straight constructors (replacing commented code below):

public PortalURL createURL( HttpServletRequest request, String characterEncoding )
{
//PortalURL url = (PortalURL) beanFactory.getBean(urlBeanName, PortalURL.class); <--- **** used to be one line prototype creation, commented out....
NavigationalStateCodec codec = (NavigationalStateCodec)beanFactory.getBean("NavigationalStateCodec");
JetspeedCache cache = (JetspeedCache)beanFactory.getBean("portletContentCache");
NavigationalState navState = new SessionFullNavigationalState( codec, cache);
PortalContext context = (PortalContext)beanFactory.getBean("PortalContext");
PortalURL url = new PathInfoEncodingPortalURL(navState, context);

Perhaps it could be configured as:

public PortalURL createURL( HttpServletRequest request, String characterEncoding )
{
if (useSpringToWireBeans)

{ PortalURL url = (PortalURL) beanFactory.getBean(urlBeanName, PortalURL.class); }

else
{
NavigationalStateCodec codec = (NavigationalStateCodec)beanFactory.getBean("NavigationalStateCodec");
JetspeedCache cache = (JetspeedCache)beanFactory.getBean("portletContentCache");
NavigationalState navState = new SessionFullNavigationalState( codec, cache);
PortalContext context = (PortalContext)beanFactory.getBean("PortalContext");
PortalURL url = new PathInfoEncodingPortalURL(navState, context);

I will also create an issue in Spring JIRA and see if we can get resolution from the Spring team.....