P是在 Go1.1 引入的概念，初始默认等于 CPU 核的数量。P只是一个逻辑概念，跟 CPU 也没有任何关系。
源码 go/1.13.4/libexec/src/runtime/proc.go 中对 P 的注释如下：
// P - processor, a resource that is required to execute Go code.
// M must have an associated P to execute Go code, however it can be
// blocked or in a syscall w/o an associated P.再通过源码 go/1.13.4/libexec/src/runtime/runtime2.go 来简要了解一下 P 在调度过程中的状态变化：
const (
// P status
_Pidle = iota
_Prunning
_Psyscall
_Pgcstop
// _Pdead means a P is no longer used (GOMAXPROCS shrank). We
// reuse Ps if GOMAXPROCS increases. A dead P is mostly
// stripped of its resources, though a few things remain
// (e.g., trace buffers).
_Pdead
)通过调整 GOMAXPROCS 可以控制 P 的状态，_Pdead专门来说明这一点。
从 P 的结构体字段中，可以进一步了解 P 中存储的资源，源码go/1.13.4/libexec/src/runtime/runtime2.go：
type p struct {
id int32
status uint32 // one of pidle/prunning/...
link puintptr
schedtick uint32 // incremented on every scheduler call
syscalltick uint32 // incremented on every system call
sysmontick sysmontick // last tick observed by sysmon
m muintptr // back-link to associated m (nil if idle)
mcache *mcache
raceprocctx uintptr
deferpool [5][]*_defer // pool of available defer structs of different sizes (see panic.go)
deferpoolbuf [5][32]*_defer
// Cache of goroutine ids, amortizes accesses to runtime·sched.goidgen.
goidcache uint64
goidcacheend uint64
// Queue of runnable goroutines. Accessed without lock.
runqhead uint32
runqtail uint32
runq [256]guintptr
// runnext, if non-nil, is a runnable G that was ready'd by
// the current G and should be run next instead of what's in
// runq if there's time remaining in the running G's time
// slice. It will inherit the time left in the current time
// slice. If a set of goroutines is locked in a
// communicate-and-wait pattern, this schedules that set as a
// unit and eliminates the (potentially large) scheduling
// latency that otherwise arises from adding the ready'd
// goroutines to the end of the run queue.
runnext guintptr
// Available G's (status == Gdead)
gFree struct {
gList
n int32
}
sudogcache []*sudog
sudogbuf [128]*sudog
tracebuf traceBufPtr
// traceSweep indicates the sweep events should be traced.
// This is used to defer the sweep start event until a span
// has actually been swept.
traceSweep bool
// traceSwept and traceReclaimed track the number of bytes
// swept and reclaimed by sweeping in the current sweep loop.
traceSwept, traceReclaimed uintptr
palloc persistentAlloc // per-P to avoid mutex
_ uint32 // Alignment for atomic fields below
// Per-P GC state
gcAssistTime int64 // Nanoseconds in assistAlloc
gcFractionalMarkTime int64 // Nanoseconds in fractional mark worker (atomic)
gcBgMarkWorker guintptr // (atomic)
gcMarkWorkerMode gcMarkWorkerMode
// gcMarkWorkerStartTime is the nanotime() at which this mark
// worker started.
gcMarkWorkerStartTime int64
// gcw is this P's GC work buffer cache. The work buffer is
// filled by write barriers, drained by mutator assists, and
// disposed on certain GC state transitions.
gcw gcWork
// wbBuf is this P's GC write barrier buffer.
//
// TODO: Consider caching this in the running G.
wbBuf wbBuf
runSafePointFn uint32 // if 1, run sched.safePointFn at next safe point
pad cpu.CacheLinePad
}字段中 mcache 再单独说明一下，源码go/1.13.4/libexec/src/runtime/mcache.go:
// Per-thread (in Go, per-P) cache for small objects.
// No locking needed because it is per-thread (per-P).
//
// mcaches are allocated from non-GC'd memory, so any heap pointers
// must be specially handled.
//
//go:notinheapmcache反映了对象的创建策略：小对象。