RFR: JDK-8257588: Make os::_page_sizes a bitmask [v5]
Stefan Karlsson
stefank at openjdk.java.net
Mon Dec 7 08:16:16 UTC 2020
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 17:24:26 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> may I please have reviews for the following very small improvement:
>>
>> While discussing JDK-8243315 [1], and aiming to make planned changes like JDK-8256155 [2] easier:
>>
>> size_t os::_page_sizes[os::page_sizes_max];
>>
>> is an array used to keep all page sizes the hotspot can use. It is sorted by size and filled in at initialization time.
>>
>> Coding dealing with this can be simplified by making this a set (which is very easy since all page sizes are power-2-values so they lend themselves nicely to a bitmap).
>>
>> That has the following advantages:
>> - makes adding new sizes simple since we do not have to re-sort the array. Coding is easier to read too.
>> - it makes it possible to encode a set of page sizes in one number, so we can hand a set-of-page-sizes around as a value.
>>
>> -----
>>
>> The patch adds a new class, os::PagesizeSet, which is a bitmap containing page sizes. It adds gtests for this class. It replaces the old os::_page_sizes with an object of that class. It also removes an unused function.
>>
>>
>> Testing:
>> - nightlies at SAP
>> - manual tests with UseLargePages
>> - the new gtests
>> - gh actions (with x86 still failing because of unrelated issues)
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8243315
>> [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8256155
>
> Thomas Stuefe has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>
> Feedback Stefan (2)
Thanks! Looks good.
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Marked as reviewed by stefank (Reviewer).
PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1522
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