RFR: Periodic GC

[Roman Kennke]

Am 04.08.2017 um 12:43 schrieb Aleksey Shipilev:
> On 08/04/2017 12:41 PM, Roman Kennke wrote:
>> Am 04.08.2017 um 12:07 schrieb Aleksey Shipilev:
>>> Following up on yesterday's experiment, here is the Periodic GC implementation:
>>>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/shenandoah/periodic-gc/webrev.01/
>>>
>>> Only "adaptive" and "dynamic" are enabling it. "aggressive" performs lots of GCs anyway, and
>>> "passive" should not do periodic at all. The default period is 5 minutes, which seems to be a safe
>>> default for detecting really idle applications.
>>>
>>> Testing: new test
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Aleksey
>>>
>> Do we need a way to turn it off?
> Provide the uber-large period, and that shall disable it?
>
>> Looks to me like the code is duplicated in dynamic and adaptive. Dunno
>> if it can somehow be shared?
> "Duplication is far cheaper than wrong abstraction" applies here, I think.

Yeah, ok. Go then!