RFR [M][7/7]: 8197932: Better split work in rebuild remembered sets phase

[Stefan Johansson]

On 2018-03-22 11:46, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> ...
> The problem is not so much increasing the value, but decreasing it for
> very slow systems. Decreasing it further adds some overhead.
>
> The other point is that since we track the time a chunk takes, it seems
> strange to not have any knobs to deal with problems in that area.
>
> New webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8197932/webrev.2_to_3 (diff)
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8197932/webrev.3 (full)
Looks good!
Thanks,
Stefan
> In this webrev I also did some somewhat messy looking renaming of nTAMS
> to TAMS (removing the n) and passing the (n)TAMS around in conjunction
> with the bitmap.
> This will make a follow-up change a lot easier to read.
>
> Thanks,
>    Thomas
>