review(XS): 7145345: Code cache sweeper must cooperate with safepoints

[Tom Rodriguez]

On Feb 14, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Igor Veresov wrote:

> Code cache sweeper must yield to safepoint. With high numbers of methods sweeping can block the safepoint from happening.

Why don't you just safepoint instead of aborting the current sweep?

We may also want to increase the sweep fraction for tiered.

tom

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