[8u-dev] Request for approval: backport 8152271: MemberNameTable doesn't purge stale entries

[Kevin Walls]

Oh, thanks David.  There was me getting excited it solved all my problems...

Thanks
Kevin


On 27/01/2017 11:04, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> On 27/01/2017 8:25 PM, Kevin Walls wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to backport the following to 8u-dev.
>>
>> 8152271: MemberNameTable doesn't purge stale entries
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8152271
>
> That change was backed out again:
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8161445
>
> David
> -----
>
>> An hg import from the 9 changeset:
>>
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/rev/13b2c7ac95a5
>>
>> ...works and tests well in jprt and with a manual testcase that showed a
>> gc slowdown before the fix.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kevin
>>
>>