gh-112529: Make the GC scheduling thread-safe (#114880)

The GC keeps track of the number of allocations (less deallocations)
since the last GC. This buffers the count in thread-local state and uses
atomic operations to modify the per-interpreter count. The thread-local
buffering avoids contention on shared state.

A consequence is that the GC scheduling is not as precise, so
"test_sneaky_frame_object" is skipped because it requires that the GC be
run exactly after allocating a frame object.
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Sam Gross 2024-02-16 11:22:27 -05:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ class GCTests(unittest.TestCase):
# To minimize variations, though, we first store the get_count() results
# and check them at the end.
@refcount_test
@unittest.skipIf(Py_GIL_DISABLED, 'needs precise allocation counts')
def test_get_count(self):
gc.collect()
a, b, c = gc.get_count()