RFR: 8133805: Remove the bot_updates parameter from G1Allocator's allocation methods

Thomas Schatzl thomas.schatzl at oracle.com
Tue Dec 12 12:07:49 UTC 2017


Hi,

On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 15:32 +0100, Leo Korinth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The bot_updates parameter is removed so that the code is easier to
> read. 
> The original idea behind the parameter is that the compiler will be
> able to remove a branch instruction (in certain cases) because the
> value will be known at compile time. As several classes inherits from
> the base G1AllocRegion the member variable _bot_updates is not known
> to the base class though it is always set to the same value in each
> of the separate sub classes.
> 
> I made the constructor G1GCAllocRegion protected (from public) to
> better show that that each *AllocRegion class with public constructor
> will have a fixed _bot_updates value (per class).
> 
[...]
> Bug:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8133805
> 
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lkorinth/8133805/00/
> 
> Testing:
> mach5 hs-tier1,hs-tier2

- in g1AllocRegion.hpp, please fix the indentation of the parameters
for G1AllocRegion::allocate() and par_allocate().

looks good otherwise.

Thanks,
  Thomas




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