RFR (S): 8075288: Remove dictionary NULL check on common path of BlockFreeList methods

[Jungwoo Ha]

That was on another thread.
Now I get that, so I'll just cc next time.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Stefan Karlsson <stefan.karlsson at oracle.com
> wrote:

>  On 2015-04-30 16:05, Jungwoo Ha wrote:
>
> Well, I just followed what Kim suggested before.
> I did that before for JDK-8075288, and no one responded yet on runtime
> thread.
> There are too many different voices from Oracle, which confuses me.
>
>
> Kim suggested that you should involve the Runtime team:
>
> "I'm not sure of this, but I think metaspace belongs to runtime rather
> than gc. If so, this should go through the hs-rt repository and have
> runtime folks involved in the review."
>
> not that you should create a new, separate thread on the hotspot-rt list.
>
> StefanK
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:42 AM, Stefan Karlsson <
> stefan.karlsson at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Jungwoo,
>>
>>
>> On 2015-04-30 15:33, Jungwoo Ha wrote:
>>
>>
>>>  I agree. This is a nice cleanup, irrespective of any potential
>>> performance gains.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jwha/8079091/webrev.00/src/share/vm/memory/metaspace.cpp.udiff.html
>>>
>>> -BlockFreelist::BlockFreelist() : _dictionary(NULL) {}
>>> +BlockFreelist::BlockFreelist()
>>> +    : _dictionary(new BlockTreeDictionary()) {
>>> +  assert(_dictionary != NULL, "Failed to allocate BlockTreeDictionary");
>>> +}
>>>
>>> No need to NULL check CHeapObj allocations, since the JVM will exit if
>>> it failed to get memory. See AllocateHeap:
>>>   if (p == NULL && alloc_failmode == AllocFailStrategy::EXIT_OOM) {
>>>     vm_exit_out_of_memory(size, OOM_MALLOC_ERROR, "AllocateHeap");
>>>   }
>>>
>>>
>>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jwha/8079091/webrev.02/
>>
>>  That part is taken care of on webrev.02.
>> The conversation is also happening at runtime mailing list as Kim
>> suggested to pass it to runtime.
>>
>>
>>  Please don't split up a review request that way in the future. It would
>> have been enough to CC the hotspot-runtime-dev list.
>>
>> I'll leave the rest of my comments on that list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> StefanK
>>
>>   I think the general agreement is on using webrev.02.
>>
>>
>>
>
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