RFR: 8254739: G1: Optimize evacuation failure for regions with few failed objects [v19]

Fri Nov 5 11:34:13 UTC 2021

On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 11:24:37 GMT, Hamlin Li <mli at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Thank Thomas for unpacking my concern more precisely. I used "problematic" to mean the second iteration will not do what developers expect it to do, not necessarily a VM crash.
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> Thanks for your clarification, Albert, Thomas, I see your point, it make sense to me.
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> As this patch has been blocking some other issues for a while, and I think it's better to think of some good solution for Albert's concern (seems add a drop is a little bit redundant for me :).) 
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> If you don't mind, can I do this refinement later in another issue? Thanks

It's a rather minor issue as I stated originally; I am fine either way.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5181