RFR: Enable biased locking for Shenandoah by default

[Aleksey Shipilev]

Was following up on some passive vs Parallel experiments trying to understand the where the
difference is coming from. Turns out, biased locking matters a lot in those tests. For example,
XmlTransform:

 Parallel GC, -XX:-UseBiasedLocking:         117 +- 3 ops/min
 Parallel GC, -XX:+UseBiasedLocking:         137 +- 2 ops/min

 Shenandoah passive, -XX:-UseBiasedLocking:  117 +- 3 ops/min
 Shenandoah passive, -XX:+UseBiasedLocking:  134 +- 3 ops/min

 Shenandoah adaptive, -XX:-UseBiasedLocking:  98 +- 2 ops/min
 Shenandoah adaptive, -XX:+UseBiasedLocking: 112 +- 2 ops/min

Half a year ago, we amended Shenandoah code to disable biased locking, because it has potential to
disrupt latency improvements. Since then, a few things happened: we have improved performance enough
for biased locking improvements to be visible, thread-local handshakes that can make biased locking
revocation less harmful arrived upstream, and wider testing that runs into artificial slowdowns
because of this was observed. So, I propose we enable biased locking back with Shenandoah.

diff -r 18bada116c5f src/hotspot/share/runtime/arguments.cpp
--- a/src/hotspot/share/runtime/arguments.cpp	Fri Nov 17 18:28:16 2017 +0100
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/runtime/arguments.cpp	Mon Nov 20 12:31:22 2017 +0100
@@ -2076,14 +2076,6 @@
     FLAG_SET_DEFAULT(ShenandoahUncommitDelay, max_uintx);
   }

-  // Current Hotspot machinery for biased locking may introduce lots of latency hiccups
-  // that negate the benefits of low-latency GC. The throughput improvements granted by
-  // biased locking on modern hardware are not covering the latency problems induced by
-  // it. Therefore, unless user really wants it, disable biased locking.
-  if (FLAG_IS_DEFAULT(UseBiasedLocking)) {
-    FLAG_SET_DEFAULT(UseBiasedLocking, false);
-  }
-
   if (UseStringDeduplication) {
     warning("String Deduplication is unstable with Shenandoah, forcefully disabled.");
     FLAG_SET_DEFAULT(UseStringDeduplication, false);

Testing: hotspot_gc_shenandoah

Thanks,
-Aleksey