RFR: JDK-8214236: sun.gc.collector.2.name should be changed

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

On Sun, 2019-01-13 at 20:59 +0100, Per Liden wrote:
> "G1 stop-the-world concurrent collections" sounds like a
> contradiction. 
> Can't we find a better name for this?
>
> On 01/13/2019 06:43 PM, Chihiro Ito wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Fixing up name "collector.2" of G1GC in PerfCounter.print.
> > Here is the webrev to do that:
> > 
> > JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214236
> > webrev:  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~cito/JDK-8214236/webrev.00/

  "G1 concurrent cycle pauses" might be better names.

It might be useful to look at the other names too:

G1 incremental collections
G1 stop-the-world full collections

I would at least suggest to drop the "stop-the-world" since it seems
superfluous as all collections are stw; and maybe add "pauses" to be
similar to the above suggested "concurrent cycle pauses", i.e.
something like

G1 concurrent cycle pauses
G1 incremental collection pauses
G1 full collection pauses

may be slightly better.

Note that I have no idea where these names show up, so a CSR and/or
release note may be needed.

Thanks,
  Thomas