RFR: JDK-8306696: Remove MetaspaceReclaimPolicy=aggressive and deprecate MetaspaceReclaimPolicy [v5]

Thu Apr 27 12:17:59 UTC 2023

On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:04:32 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> You are right.
>> 
>> I don't want to deprecate right now since the flag was made a diagnostic flag just recently. I will continue to parse the flag, but do we really still need to parse for valid values? The flag has no meaning anymore.
>
> If the flag only has one valid value now then it is effectively obsolete, so you may as well mark it as such. Existing users of the flag will get a warning either way.

Okay, done so.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13597#discussion_r1179043034