RFR: 8329203: Parallel: Investigate Mark-Compact for Full GC to decrease memory usage [v6]

[Albert Mingkun Yang]

On Tue, 21 May 2024 09:21:25 GMT, Albert Mingkun Yang <ayang at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Refactor Parallel full-gc to use the same algorithm (mark-compact) as Serial and G1 full-GC. This removes the obj-end bitmap. When GC threads are few, the old implementation can be more efficient because it requires fewer heap iterations. The new full-GC implementation, on the other hand, is more scalable because it introduces more phases (`forward_to_new_addr` and `adjust_pointers`) that can partition work effectively.
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>> The diff is rather large, so reading the new code directly from `invoke_no_policy` is probably easier.
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>> Test: tier1-6; some improvement in Dacapo-h2, CacheStresser, but no difference in specjbb2015, specjvm2008.
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> Albert Mingkun Yang has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 10 additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge branch 'master' into pgc-full-gc
>  - Merge branch 'master' into pgc-full-gc
>  - review
>  - Merge branch 'master' into pgc-full-gc
>  - review
>  - remove-comment
>  - Merge branch 'master' into pgc-full-gc
>  - review
>  - Merge branch 'master' into pgc-full-gc
>  - pgc-full-gc

Thanks for review.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19101#issuecomment-2126390418