RFR: 8232001: ZGC: Ignore metaspace GC threshold until GC is warm

Wed Oct 16 07:01:48 UTC 2019

Hi Per,

Looks good.

/Erik

> On 8 Oct 2019, at 15:03, Per Liden <per.liden at oracle.com> wrote:
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> As reported here:
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> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/zgc-dev/2019-September/000736.html
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> The ZDirector heuristics can get of to a bad start if the statistics is contaminated by early "Metaspace GC Threshold" GC requests. To avoid this, we could simply ignore such requests until the GC is warm, at the potential cost of expanding metaspace a bit more during startup.
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8232001
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/8232001/webrev.0
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> /Per