[8u-dev] Request for approval: 8158871: Long response times with G1 and StringDeduplication

[Vladimir Kempik]

Hello,

Please approve this backport of the fix to jdk8u-dev.

The patch needed some small changes to work on jdk8

The bug:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8158871

Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vkempik/8158871/webrev.01/

The review thread:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-gc-dev/2016-June/018508.html

The jdk9 changeset:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs/hotspot/rev/ba08710f3b6c


Thanks,
Vladimir