[9] RFR (S): 8177963: Parallel GC fails fast when per-thread task log overflows

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi Kim,

On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 12:38 -0400, Kim Barrett wrote:
> > 
> > On Apr 6, 2017, at 3:56 AM, Thomas Schatzl <thomas.schatzl at oracle.c
> > om> wrote:
> > 
> > Now Kim suggested to explicitly print how many messages too much
> > were written at the end, but then the user would need to manually
> > add the two values (GCTaskTimeStampEntries plus the number of
> > overflowed message) together manually.
> Not exactly.  I suggested limiting the index to the buffer size and
> separately tracking overflow.  How that gets reported is a different
> matter; I was thinking we would do that addition for the user when we
> print the message :)

  okay, you are right :)

Thomas