RFR (S): 8003237: G1: Reduce unnecessary (and failing) allocation attempts when handling an evacuation failure

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

  this change is based on the latest version of the change for 8073052
that is out for review, and is still longing for another reviewer :)

(I am okay with pushing it with only a single "R"eviewer since it is
only refactoring, but if somebody can find the time...)

Thanks,
  Thomas

On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 14:35 +0200, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   can I have reviews for this small change that improves evacuation
> failure handling by short-cutting copy_to_survivor_space() when there is
> no more space left?
> 
> In effect this makes the parallel phase during GC have the same
> performance as if there is no evacuation failure, and I could not
> measure regressions in the normal case either.
> 
> The change implements two things: first, notice when there is no more
> space left in the last gen (i.e. old), and if so, short-cut
> ParScanThreadState::copy_to_survivor_space(). The other change is to not
> try to ask the free list for new regions if it's empty to avoid taking
> the lock in the time window between the first few evac failures and when
> space is completely empty.
> 
> There is still the somewhat heavyweight cleanup phases after evacuation
> failure.
> 
> CR:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8003237
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8003237/webrev/
> Testing:
> jprt, lots of performance measurements with and without this change
> compiled in
> 
> Thanks,
>   Thomas
> 
>