Request for review (s): 6814390 G1: remove the concept of non-generational G1

[John Cuthbertson]

Hi Bengt,

Looks good to me. You may want to consider removing the 
CMCheckpointRootsInitialClosure - it's only instantiated in the code you 
removed from concurrentMarkThread.cpp.

JohnC

On 08/16/11 11:03, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Could I have a couple of reviews for this change?
>
> Background:
> G1 was originally designed to be able to run in a non-generational 
> mode. This has not been used for a long time and no testing has been 
> done. Thus, the code has bit rotted. We don't see the need for this 
> feature anymore, so rather than fixing it we should remove it.
>
> This is actually a low priority item, but since it will make my next 
> step (supporting young space sizing better) simpler I would like to 
> get this CR out of the way.
>
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/6814390c/webrev.01/
>
> CR:
> 6814390 G1: remove the concept of non-generational G1
> http://monaco.us.oracle.com/detail.jsf?cr=6814390
>
> Thanks,
> Bengt
>