RFR (S): 7112912:Message "Error occurred during initialization of VM" on boxes with lots of RAM

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi Jon,

On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 14:24 -0700, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> Thomas,
> 
> Thanks for the extra effort.   A comment not about correctness
> but more for readability.
>
> > +  if (is_allocatable(upper_limit)) {
> > +    *limit = upper_limit;
> > +  } else if (upper_limit < min_allocation_size) {
> > +    *limit = upper_limit;
> > +  } else if (!is_allocatable(min_allocation_size)) {
> > +    // we found that not even min_allocation_size is allocatable. Return it
> > +    // anyway. There is no point to search for a better value any more.
> > +    *limit = min_allocation_size;
> 
> In the first "else if" if you changed it to (upper_limit <= 
> min_allocation_size)
> can you eliminate the second "else if" like this
> 
> +  if (is_allocatable(upper_limit)) {
> +    *limit = upper_limit;
> +  } else if (upper_limit <= min_allocation_size) {
> +    *limit = upper_limit;
> 
> And it might read more easily as
> 
> +  if (is_allocatable(upper_limit) ||
> +upper_limit <= min_allocation_size) {
> +    *limit = upper_limit;

  a new webrev with your suggested change is available at

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/7112912/webrev.2/

Again, the change passed jprt.

Hth,
Thomas