CRR (S): 7113012: G1: rename not-fully-young GCs as "mixed"

Tony Printezis tony.printezis at oracle.com
Fri Dec 9 16:11:48 UTC 2011


John,

Thanks for the prompt code review!

Tony

On 12/08/2011 09:26 PM, John Cuthbertson wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> This looks good to me. And thanks for changing the terms within the 
> code - it looks a lot nicer.
>
> JohnC
>
> On 12/08/11 14:04, Tony Printezis wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Could I have a couple of volunteers to look at this change?
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tonyp/7113012/webrev.0/
>>
>> We decided that the terms "fully-young" and "partially-young" GCs 
>> were awkward so we are renaming them to "young" and "mixed". This 
>> change not only changes the external G1 output that uses these terms 
>> (i.e., GC log and GC ergonomic decision log) but also renames all the 
>> occurrences of those terms in the code itself (fields, methods, 
>> comments, etc.). Initially, I was not going to do the latter but it 
>> turned out that the changes were not too many. So it's good to make 
>> the code consistent with our current terminology.
>>
>> These are the most common fields / methods that I renamed:
>>
>> _full_young_gcs                  -> _gcs_are_young
>> full_young_gcs()                 -> gcs_are_young()
>> set_full_young_gcs()             -> set_gcs_are_young()
>> _should_revert_to_full_young_gcs -> _should_revert_to_young_gcs
>> _last_full_young_gc              -> _last_young_gc
>> _last_young_gc_full              -> _last_gc_was_young
>>
>> The changeset also includes some very minor code cleanup (mainly 
>> introduction of curly brackets in if-else statements).
>>
>> Tony
>>
>



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