RFR: 8048180: Eager reclaim of humongous objects with references [v3]
Thomas Schatzl
tschatzl at openjdk.org
Wed Oct 8 16:12:20 UTC 2025
> Hi all,
>
> please review this change to G1 that enables eager reclaim of humongous objects with references, either objArrays or just really large objects.
>
> It works the same as other humongous object's eager reclaim, with the caveat that I disabled it during concurrent mark to avoid problems with SATB. There is fairly extensive documentation about why I think this works, and how in the comment in `g1YoungCollector.cpp`.
>
> The test case exhaustively tests all combinations of when a particular type of object should be able to be reclaimed depending on when it is allocated (only for `typeArray` and `objArray` - huge objects work the same as the latter).
>
> I added a diagnostic flag `G1EagerReclaimWithRefs` to allow disabling this particular functionality for diagnostic purposes, but I think it's not really necessary, and I'm open to remove it.
>
> The following screenshot shows pause times before (purple) and after (brown) of one of the [Optaplanner](https://www.optaplanner.org/blog/2021/09/15/HowMuchFasterIsJava17.html) benchmarks as a result of this change.
>
> <img width="702" height="485" alt="Screenshot 2025-09-26 at 13 59 05" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/995e9e27-f861-44bd-8ced-3bd952e314e8" />
>
> Testing: new test cases, gha, tier1-5
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
Thomas Schatzl has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
* more documentation work
-------------
Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27525/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27525/files/44c62fcb..7bf219a8
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27525&range=02
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27525&range=01-02
Stats: 57 lines in 1 file changed: 24 ins; 20 del; 13 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27525.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/27525/head:pull/27525
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27525
More information about the hotspot-gc-dev
mailing list