RFR(M): 8204613: StringTable: Calculates wrong number of uncleaned items.
Per Liden
per.liden at oracle.com
Wed Jun 13 12:20:07 UTC 2018
Looks good Robbin!
/Per
On 06/13/2018 12:44 PM, Robbin Ehn wrote:
> Hi, Stefan pointed out that there are some useless methods calls since
> we don't remove any strings in some of the walks.
>
> Serial, Parallel and CMS only removes strings in serial call to unlink.
> G1 only removes strings in StringAndSymbolCleaningTask.
>
> I reverted does unneeded changes, leaving the patch with only G1 and ZGC
> changes (+ stringtable):
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rehn/8204613/v2/webrev/
>
> Thanks Stefan!
>
> /Robbin
>
> On 06/11/2018 06:09 PM, Robbin Ehn wrote:
>> Hi all, please review.
>>
>> The StringTable lazy evicts dead string, until a dead string is
>> evicted it will be counted as a dead string. If it is not evicted
>> before next GC cycle it is counted again, making the count of
>> uncleaned strings skew.
>> Also ZGC walks the strings without using the stringtable GC API, but
>> it needs to be-able to feedback the number of dead strings to get the
>> cleaning functionality.
>> There is a big probability that ZGC makes it in before this
>> change-set, so I included ZGC changes.
>>
>> There was a compile issue on slowdebug on windows for
>> create_archived_string(), I added NOT_CDS_JAVA_HEAP_RETURN_(NULL) for it.
>>
>> Change-set: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rehn/8204613/webrev/index.html
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8204613
>>
>> T1-3 with ZGC testing on, no related issues and manual JMH testing.
>>
>> Thanks, Robbin
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