RFR: 8251158: Implementation of JEP 387: Elastic Metaspace

[Thomas Stüfe]

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>> blocktree.hpp/cpp should be blockTree.hpp/cpp
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>> Since for class metaspace, the reclaimed InstanceKlass are generally
>> bigger than the largest BinList size, maybe class type MetaspaceArenas
>> should only have a blockTree and not a SmallBlocks, so not the whole
>> freeList.hpp structure.  I think we could do some footprint analysis
>> with NMT and see if this might help.  It's fairly rare unless you have a
>> lot of redefinition.  I don't think this should be changed in this
>> change though.
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> Oh good point.
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> I would not like to hard-code the assumption that class space only
> contains Klass though; I dimly remember an RFR with Ioi where he tried
> storing other things there as well. IIRC he found some other solution. But
> my point is that this assumption is fragile.
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> But a "soft assumption" would be fine. E.g. creating the BinList on the
> fly, only when needed, and separately from the blocktree. Easy to implement
> too.
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> We don't need NMT to analyze. BinList currently has 32 slots, + counter +
> mask. We pay 272 bytes per structure, or 34 words. Which we would save per
> CLD.
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> This seems like something useful to explore later.
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I created follow up https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8252187 to
track this.