RFR: 8158871: Long response times with G1 and StringDeduplication

[Stefan Karlsson]

Looks good.

StefanK

On 2016-06-13 12:19, Per Liden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could I please have a couple of reviews in this bug fix.
>
> Summary: When entries are pruned from the StringDedupTable, the actual 
> freeing of those entries are done while both holding the 
> StringDedupTable_lock and being joined to the SuspendibleThreadSet. 
> This causes both String.intern() and safepoints to be blocked until 
> the freeing is completed. As described in the bug report, this can 
> cause a very noticeable hick up in application response times when a 
> huge amount (millions) of entries are pruned at once. The patch fixes 
> this by moving all freeing out from the StringDedupTable_lock and the 
> SuspendibleThreadSet is only joined temporarily to bulk-extract the 
> list of entries to free, which is an O(1) operation.
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/8158871/webrev.0/
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8158871
>
> Testing: All jtreg string dedup tests pass. Manually provoked the 
> problematic condition and verified that the actual freeing of entries 
> doesn't block safepoints or String.intern().
>
> thanks,
> Per
>