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

[Mikael Gerdin]

On 2016-02-04 15:42, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
> Still looks good!
> Have you verified that none of these are used in the SA code? (Seems
> unlikely that they would be in there.)

The SA does not appear to reference G1CollelctorPolicy whatsoever.

/Mikael

> /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
>>