Request for review (XS): 8003822: Deprecate the incremental mode of CMS

Bengt Rutisson bengt.rutisson at oracle.com
Fri Dec 21 13:50:09 UTC 2012


Hi John,

Thanks for looking at this!

On 12/20/12 12:55 AM, John Cuthbertson wrote:
> Hi Bengt,
>
> Changes look good to me. You may want to add an 
> JDK_Version::is_gte_jdk18x_version() check just in case someone 
> mistakenly backports this change or, for some unknown reason, hs25 is 
> placed in a jdk7.

I'm not sure we have to be this defensive. It would not be good if this 
change got backported to JDK7.

> I also want to call out that by not including a FLAG_IS_DEFAULT check, 
> you are assuming that none of these flags are enabled by default. This 
> is true for us. No change required - just calling it out.

Good point. I'll leave it as it for now, though.

Thanks,
Bengt


>
> JohnC
>
> On 12/19/2012 4:40 AM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Can I have a couple of reviews for this change to deprecate iCMS?
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8003822/webrev.00/
>>
>> This is part of the work for JEP 173:
>>
>> JEP 173: Retire Some Rarely-Used GC Combinations
>> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/173
>>
>> The webrev is based on the the earlier webrev that I sent out to 
>> deprecate the DefNew + CMS and ParNew + SerialOld GC combinations:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8003820/webrev.00/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bengt
>




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