RFR: 8306541: Refactor collection set candidate handling to prepare for JDK-8140326 [v11]

[Ivan Walulya]

On Wed, 10 May 2023 10:44:46 GMT, Thomas Schatzl <tschatzl at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi all,
>> 
>>   please review this refactoring of collection set candidate set handling.
>> 
>> The idea is to improve the interface to collection set candidates and prepare for having collection set candidates available at any time to evacuate them at any young collection.
>> 
>> These preparations to allow for multiple sources for these candidates (from the marking, as now, and from retained regions, i.e. evacuation failed regions as per [JDK-8140326](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8140326)).
>> 
>> This patch only uses candidates from marking at this time.
>>  
>> Also moves gc efficiency out of HeapRegion and associate it to the list element as it's not used otherwise.
>>     
>> In detail:
>>     * the collection set candidates set is not temporarily allocated any more, but the candidate collection set object is available all the time.
>>     
>>     * G1CollectionSetCandidates is the main class, representing the current candidates. Contains the "from marking" candidate list only (at this point).
>>     
>>     * there are several additional helper sets/lists
>>       * G1CollectionSetRegionList: list of HeapRegion*, typically sorted by efficiency (but not necessarily). Also does not contain gc efficiences.
>>       * G1CollectionCandidateList: list of candidates, i.e. HeapRegion* with their gc efficiency. Building block for the actual collection set candidates list.
>>     
>> All these sets implement C++ iterators for simpler use in various places.
>>     
>> Testing:
>>  - this patch only: tier1-3, gha
>>  - with JDK-8140326 tier1-7 (or 8?)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>   Thomas
>
> Thomas Schatzl has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Removed assert that is useless for now

Lgtm!

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Marked as reviewed by iwalulya (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13666#pullrequestreview-1422332605