Request for review: 8008368: Deprecate MaxGCMinorPauseMillis

[John Cuthbertson]

Hi Tao,

Looks OK to me.

Examples would be:

-XX:CMSParPromoteBlocksToClaim=
-XX:ParallelGCOldGenAllocBufferSize=

Basically there are a few GC flags that we accept in 
Arguments::parse_each_vm_init_arg() just so that we can emit a warning 
message. These would be reasonable candidates. You don't need to list 
them all in the new CR - just list the kind of flag that is a good 
candidate for adding into check_deprecated_gc_flags(), namely it's 
accepted in Arguments::parse_each_vm_init_arg() just so as to emit a 
warning.

Thanks,

JohnC

On 3/5/2013 1:02 PM, Tao Mao wrote:
> A new webrev is updated according to your feedback.
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tamao/8008368/webrev.01/
>
> Plus, what are the other deprecated GC flags you mentioned?
>
> Thanks.
> Tao
>
> On 3/4/13 11:20 PM, John Cuthbertson wrote:
>> Hi Tao,
>>
>> I would change the name of the new routine to 
>> check_deprecated_gc_flags() and I would move the call to after the 
>> check_deprecated_gcs().
>>
>> Other than the above it looks good.
>>
>> You may want to file an enhancement to move some the other deprecated 
>> GC flags, for which we emit warnings, into the new routine.
>>
>> JohnC
>>
>> On 2/28/2013 11:17 AM, Tao Mao wrote:
>>> 8008368: Deprecate MaxGCMinorPauseMillis
>>> https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8008368
>>>
>>> webrev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tamao/8008368/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> changeset:
>>> We don't need the distinction between MaxGCMinorPauseMillis and 
>>> MaxGCPauseMillis. The MaxGCMinorPauseMillis flag was introduced as a 
>>> backup measure in case one pause target for all types collections 
>>> was not enough. As it has turned out it seems one pause target is 
>>> enough. Thus, we should deprecate MaxGCMinorPauseMillis and give a 
>>> warning when set.
>>>
>>> testing:
>>> passed JPRT test(sanity)
>>>
>>