RFR (XS): 8021967: Deprecate -XX:DefaultMaxRAMFraction

[Bengt Rutisson]

Thanks Thomas, Jon, Vladmir and Tao for the reviews!

Bengt

On 8/1/13 12:42 AM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> Good.
>
> Vladimir
>
> On 7/31/13 12:27 PM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tao,
>>
>> On 7/31/13 8:42 PM, Tao Mao wrote:
>>> Hi Bengt,
>>>
>>> Is using !FLAG_IS_DEFAULT(DefaultMaxRAMFraction) to trigger the
>>> warning a little inaccurate compared to FLAG_IS_CMDLINE() in this
>>> case, given that we have the possibility of FLAG_IS_ERGO()?
>>
>> Thanks for catching this. No, it was a copy-paste mistake. I just moved
>> the code from set_heap_size(). Here is an updated verion that use
>> FLAG_IS_CMDLINE:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8021967/webrev.02/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bengt
>>
>>>
>>> Otherwise, it looks good.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Tao
>>>
>>> On 7/31/13 11:28 AM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Vladimir,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for looking at this!
>>>>
>>>> On 7/31/13 6:06 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
>>>>> Bengt,
>>>>>
>>>>> You have special method in arguments.cpp
>>>>> check_deprecated_gc_flags(). Why not use it?
>>>>
>>>> I'm fine with that. I wasn't really sure whether to consider
>>>> DefaultMaxRAMFraction a GC flag or not. Anyway, either way is fine
>>>> with me. Here is a webrev with the warning message in
>>>> check_deprecated_gc_flags() instead:
>>>>
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8021967/webrev.01/
>>>>
>>>> Jon and Thomas, what do you prefer?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Bengt
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Vladimir
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/31/13 6:34 AM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could I have a couple of reviews for this small fix?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8021967/webrev.00/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For JDK8 we need to print a warning message when
>>>>>> DefaultMaxRAMFraction is used on the command line. This is to 
>>>>>> allow us
>>>>>> to remove it for JDK9. The flag was superseded by MaxRAMFraction in
>>>>>> 2009 for the JDK6u18 release.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Bengt
>>>>
>>>
>>