RFR: Cleanup ShenandoahBarrierSet::write_barrier
Aleksey Shipilev
shade at redhat.com
Wed Jul 19 18:04:46 UTC 2017
On 07/19/2017 07:47 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> There seems to be lots of single-use methods with weird names, related to
> SBS::write_barrier. They look like historical artifacts, in attempt to make
> interpreter code run faster? Nowadays it is cleaner to just inline all of them
> into the SBS::write_barrier:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/shenandoah/sbs-wb-cleanup/webrev.01/
Ha, see! I did the inlining mechanically, but now I realize we are missing the
obvious check "obj == fwd" before trying to evac. Old code would just fail the
CAS inside evacuate_object, always producing excess garbage.
Better one:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/shenandoah/sbs-wb-cleanup/webrev.02/
Thanks,
-Aleksey
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