RFR (M) 8149013: Remove unused and dead code from G1CollectorPolicy

Jesper Wilhelmsson jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com
Thu Feb 4 14:42:36 UTC 2016


Still looks good!
Have you verified that none of these are used in the SA code? (Seems unlikely 
that they would be in there.)
/Jesper

Den 4/2/16 kl. 14:46, skrev Mikael Gerdin:
> Hi,
>
> I found another one, _inc_cset_max_finger.
>
> New webrevs:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mgerdin/8149013/webrev.1/
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mgerdin/8149013/webrev.0_to_1/
>
> /Mikael
>
> On 2016-02-04 14:25, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
>> Looks good!
>> /Jesper
>>
>> Den 4/2/16 kl. 14:02, skrev Mikael Gerdin:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Here's a cleanup of dead and unused code from the G1 collector policy.
>>>
>>> Some unused member variables can be removed:
>>> _no_of_gc_threads (only getter/setter)
>>> _parallel_gc_threads (only used locally in constructor)
>>>
>>>
>>> I'd also suggest to remove functionality related to
>>> Trace{Young,Old}GenTime from
>>> G1. The statistics collected are usually too coarse (avg. pause times
>>> over a
>>> complete run) to be useful and they have not been kept in sync with
>>> the time
>>> tracking done through the phase times tracking object.
>>>
>>> Removing this functionality from G1 leads to removal of:
>>>
>>> _stop_world_start (only used by Trace*GenTime)
>>> record_concurrent_pause()
>>> print_tracing_info()
>>> record_stop_world_start()
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8149013
>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mgerdin/8149013/webrev.0/
>>> Testing: Local build and local GCBacsher
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> /Mikael
>



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