RFR(L): 8151601: Cleanup locking of the Reference pending list

[Bengt Rutisson]

On 2016-03-15 12:02, Per Liden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got some minor comments from StefanK offline, here's an updated webrev:
>
> Incremental: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/8151601/webrev.diff-0vs1/
>
> Full: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/8151601/webrev.1/

Still looks good to me.

Bengt

>
> thanks,
> Per
>
> On 2016-03-10 16:53, Per Liden wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The SurrogateLockerThread is currently used by both G1 and CMS to lock
>> the Reference pending list. However, there's quite a bit of unnecessary
>> code duplication and special case handling in this area. This patch is
>> an attempt to clean this up.
>>
>> The main changes:
>>
>> - All locking of the pending list is how done through the new
>> ReferencePendingListLocker. This locker delegates to a locker thread if
>> needed.
>>
>> - The locking related code in instanceRefKlass was moved to the new
>> ReferencePendingListLocker.
>>
>> - What used to be the SurrogateLockerThread is now the
>> ReferencePendingListLockerThread.
>>
>> - The new virtual function
>> CollectedHeap::needs_reference_pending_list_locker_thread() indicates if
>> a collector needs a locker thread. G1 and CMS returns true here.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8151601
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/8151601/webrev.0/
>> Testing: jprt, vm.gc
>>
>> cheers,
>> Per