RFR: 8304015: G1: Metaspace-induced GCs should not trigger maximal compaction

[Albert Mingkun Yang]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 13:20:39 GMT, Ivan Walulya <iwalulya at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Please review this small cleanup to remove triggering maximal compaction on Metaspace-induced full-GCs.
> 
> Testing: Tier1.

I think it's better to keep the var so that the semantic of the literal boolean is clear in this context.

(Slightly off the PR -- it's not obvious that metaspace related GC enters this path. Why isn't the decision on what GC cycle (young/old/clear-soft-or-not) to trigger made inside GC code?)

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Marked as reviewed by ayang (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12987