RFR: 8048269: Add flag to turn off class unloading after G1 concurrent mark

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 09:43 +0200, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
> On 2014-08-04 16:07, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On 2014-07-18 00:14, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
[...]
> >> The flag sounds more concise but is it that correct?   With CMS
> >> at least (which we hope to make use this same flag) some
> >> of the reduction in work would be during marking but the
> >> freeing of the metaspace and the cleaning of the system
> >> dictionary come later (after the sweep).  I still like
> >> ClassUnloadingWithConcurrentMark - not as precise but
> >> maybe more correct?
> >
> > I'm fine with this flag name.
> >
> > Does anyone strongly oppose the flag name: 
> > ClassUnloadingWithConcurrentMark?
> 
> No objections from me.

Neither from me.

Thomas