RFR: 8254912: ZGC: Change ZCollectionInterval type to double

[Stefan Karlsson]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 08:58:40 GMT, Albert Mingkun Yang <ayang at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> ZCollectionInterval is used to trigger GCs within certain time intervals. The flag specifies how many seconds to wait,
>> and the type is uint. That means that the user can only specify the interval as discrete seconds. This is probably fine
>> in most cases, but during stress testing it's often beneficial to be able to set a lower value. I propose that we
>> change the type to double, so that one can use, say, -XX:ZCollectionInterval=0.5 to trigger GC every half second.  Note
>> 1: that there's an effective lower-bound determined by how often the code checks if it's time to start a GC. That timer
>> is today set to 100ms.  Note 2: The change is backwards-compatible, so specifying the flag as an integer still
>> works: -XX:ZCollectionInterval=5
>
> Marked as reviewed by ayang (Author).

Thanks for reviewing!

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/702