RFR (XS): JDK-8204084: Remove the G1RSBarrierRegionFilter develop flag

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

On Wed, 2018-05-30 at 12:15 +0200, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 05/30/2018 12:08 PM, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> >   can I have reviews for this small change that removes the
> > G1RSBarrierRegionFilter develop flag from G1 code that is
> > implemented in a very incomplete way, and since I do not see a
> > point fixing that I suggest removing it.
> > 
> > CR:
> > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8204084
> > Webrev:
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8204084/webrev/
> 
> Yup. Amusingly, this filter is implemented in shared C1 [1] and C2
> [2] code, where the performance does matter, and it is not hooked up
> to the flag :) It might indeed make little sense to perform
> this filtering in arch-specific interpreter barriers.
> 
> I think you want to remove the comments like:
> 
>  273   // Does store cross heap regions?
>  274   // It does if the two addresses specify different grain
> addresses.
> 
>  222   // Crosses regions, storing NULL?
> 

I removed the comments and updated the webrev in-place.

Thanks for your review.

Thomas