RFR: 8368006: Parallel: Skip full regions in dense prefix during Full GC [v2]

[Albert Mingkun Yang]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:09:25 GMT, Albert Mingkun Yang <ayang at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Implement skip-full-region optimization for filler related operations on dense-prefix. I constrained the filler-creation task to a single worker for simpler implementation. During the compaction phase, the most expensive part is almost always the non-dense-prefix part, so letting the rest of workers to start with the expensive tasks seems sensible.
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>> Synthetic bms shows good reduction in full-gc time in debug build; perf-neutral for other bms (specjvm2008,specjbb2015) in release build.
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>> Test: tier1-5
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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 three additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - review
>  - Merge branch 'master' into pgc-skip-full-region
>  - pgc-skip-full-region

Thanks for review.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27369#issuecomment-3337132000