How does g1 handle circular reference between regions ?

[Sean Chou]

Thank you. I was thinking there might be some other ways, but didn't find
it in that paper :)


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Igor Veresov <iggy.veresov at gmail.com>wrote:

> By doing global reachability analysis (aka marking).
> There are two main sources of information that characterize the liveness
> of the object:
> 1. remembered sets
> 2. marking bitmap (actually there are two of them, one can be modified,
> while the other one is being used).
>
> A remembered set is a conservative estimate, but the bitmap is exact. If
> the bitmap says the object is dead, it truly is.
> And Rsets are used for reachability analysis only for the young generation.
> Rsets also, obviously, point to places where the pointer fixup needs to be
> done. That's their primary function that facilitates incremental
> collections.
>
> Also, this could be useful:
> http://labs.oracle.com/jtech/pubs/04-g1-paper-ismm.pdf
>
> igor
>
> On Nov 26, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Sean Chou <zhouyx at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In case Object oA in regin A references oB in region B, oB references oC
> in regin C, and oc reference oA ? These objects are all in remember set of
> these regions.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Sean Chou
>
>
>


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Best Regards,
Sean Chou
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