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

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 05/30/2018 12:23 PM, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> 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.

Wait a minute, I need to wake up. I thought you are removing the filters themselves, but you only
make them unconditional! So the comments are actually okay to keep. Sorry for the fuss.

-Aleksey

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