RFR: 8062943: REDO - Parallelize clearing the next mark bitmap

[Marcus Larsson]

Thanks for reviewing, Kim and Thomas!

Marcus

On 07/11/14 13:16, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 15:53 +0100, Marcus Larsson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can I have some reviews for the following re-do patch to parallelize
>> clearing of the next mark bitmap [1].
>>
>> The previous patch would cause some asserts in
>> HeapRegionManager::par_iterate() to fail because iteration was happening
>> concurrently with humongous heap region reclamation. These asserts are
>> invalid if iteration is performed concurrently.
>>
>> With this updated patch I add a concurrent flag to the par_iterate()
>> function that when set causes iteration to ignore the humongous status
>> of heap regions, and simply iterate over regions one-by-one.
> The change looks good. Thanks for updating the comment to the
> "concurrent" parameter after giving me a first look.
>
> Thanks,
>    Thomas
>
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