PING: RFR: 8217432: MetaspaceGC::_capacity_until_GC exceeds MaxMetaspaceSize

[Yasumasa Suenaga]

Thanks Thomas!

I will add the comment to inc_capacity_until_GC() declaration.

I'm waiting for second reviewer.


Yasumasa


On 2019/01/31 18:16, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> Hi Yasumasa,
> 
> On Thu, 2019-01-31 at 14:09 +0900, Yasumasa Suenaga wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> I uploaded new webrev:
>>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ysuenaga/JDK-8217432/webrev.03/
>>
>> I agree with you that inc_capacity_until_GC() returns additional
>> bool value whether new HWM is exceeded MaxMetaspaceSize.
>>
>> I added `can_retry` to argument of inc_capacity_until_GC().
>> It will be set to false if `new_value` exceeds MaxMetaspaceSize.
>> Then inc_capacity_until_GC() returns false, but it is not break
>> assert() in compute_new_size() because inc_capacity_until_GC()
>> is called with `expand_bytes` which is limited by MaxMetaspaceSize.
>> (It is ensured by this change)
>>
>> This change has passed vmTestbase/metaspace, gc/metaspace, and
>> submit repo tests.
> 
>    looks good to me. Can you add some documentation to the declaration
> of inc_capacity_until_GC() like:
> 
> // Try to increase metaspace size by v bytes. Returns true if
> // succeeded, false if not due to competing threads trying.
> // Optionally returns new and old metaspace capacity in
> // new_cap_until_GC and old_cap_until_GC respectively.
> // Optionally sets can_retry to indicate whether if there is actually
> // enough space remaining to satisfy the request.
> 
> No need for a re-review for that (or something similar potentially
> better worded description.
> 
> Thanks,
>    Thomas
> 
>