RFR: 8364166: Parallel: Remove the use of soft_ref_policy in Full GC [v2]

Tue Jul 29 08:34:57 UTC 2025

On Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:07:48 GMT, Thomas Schatzl <tschatzl at openjdk.org> wrote:

>     * the CR description in JIRA should be clarified. This change does not remove all occurrences of `_soft_ref_policy` in Parallel.

It does. `_soft_ref_policy` should probably be moved to the collectors actually using it (before cleaning up its use, I think similar changes can be done for G1 and Serial)

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26496#discussion_r2238974614