Long chains created by direct Buffer::slice

[Alan Bateman]

On 03/08/2018 23:15, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> Got caught up with JVMLS this week…
>
> I searched but could not find a test, so i added one, see:
>
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk/JDK-8208362-direct-buffer-att/webrev/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk/JDK-8208362-direct-buffer-att/webrev/>
>
One comment on the test is that the references to the intermediate refs 
may not be cleared immediately after the GC. It might be more reliable 
to loop, with a backoff, until at least one has been cleared.

-Alan